It was quite a week. First we had 4" of rain in 3 days, followed by 3 dry days (today will make 4), all while the temperature remained above 48F - until last night, when it got down to 43F.  It's foggy this morning, which probably kept it from getting colder.  Our little creek came up a couple of feet and has gone back down to where it was last week.  On the way up, however, it picked up 6 logs and floated them downstream where they are now hung up on the rocks under the bridge.  I don't have any idea how those big logs came downstream without taking out our little footbridge, but I'm sure glad they didn't. Fire danger is low.  The soil is soggy. The warm breeze that followed the rain did much to help things dry some. I mowed the grass yesterday because its been growing.  Birds are happy.  Insects are plentiful. There are still some apples hanging on the tree behind the barn.  Lesser Goldfinches have been raiding the seed heads in my flower bed every morning this week.  There is a flock of over 20.  A couple trees that had been killed by the 2020 fire fell across the neighbor's driveway, and I collected a bit of firewood from them.  No power outage here from the storm, but there were some elsewhere.