Llama Fest was a difficult act to follow. Sorta front loaded the whole weekend. But we stumbled on.
The Sierra Arts Festival dodged a bullet and it didn't rain on Sunday. It's a close-down-Mill-Street-and set-up-the-canopies kind of thing in downtown Grass Valley on the Sunday of the Weekend. Some good stuff, some not so much.
But we were casing the event for possible participation next year. I think the weather might have dampened the turnout, a bit. Didn't dampen the bellydancers, though. I'm not sure exactly how it fits in, exactly, but bellydancers show up at almost all these kinds of things. Who knew there were so many of them around here ready to don their jingly costumes and jiggle at the drop of a hat? Forgot to snap a pic. 
Then we headed down the hill to Home Depot, Costco, and Rubio's. I love Rubio's. We don't get down to the Roseville Shopping-Overload District that often, but when we do, I try to work in a visit to Rubio's. It's possible to find fish tacos up here, but...well.
Today, we used the stuff we found at Home Depot, yesterday, to put a gate in our garden fence. Somebody living here sometime in the past, nearly completed a fence around the little terraced garden and left the extra materials. We set one more post, stapled the deer mesh, and installed the gate we'd bought at HD. And now, it's done!
It's necessary up here to fence off anything deer enjoy eating, which is just about everything, if you want to keep it. Most things are expendable, but working a vegetable garden/berry patch would be a wasted effort without protection. I'm guessing we haven't foiled the jackrabbits, quite, but I'll have to figure out some ways to plug a few gaps. There's still a bit of soil-conditioning to finish and we'll get the seedlings into the beds.
Sometime soon, I'm sure.
