Our friends Jim and Ellie posted a comment on yesterday's blog stating they hoped the snow would all be gone by the time they arrived in July--making no promises, guys! Today was a little better, cool but a few hours with no rain or snow. We still have had a fire in the fireplace all day!
Michael was off to work at the Twelve Springs Ranch, managed by his son and his wife. They are re-doing the water system. Mike got home about 6pm and was a muddy mess!
I took the Volkswagen to town for the first time today and attracted a lot of attention. I had two guys stop me and ask me where I got that nice looking old bug. My friend Jill and I had lunch and I picked up some more low fat kind of dog food for the Jazzy girl. We are back on steroids but weaning off and I hope the low fat dog food does the trick. She seems to like it, scarfs it down!
When I got home, I headed straight to the quilting studio. I've got to get more time in on that machine or I will never get my Aunt's quilts quilted! The weather has been perfect for quilting, for sure.
Michael was a guinea pig for supper--I made crabcakes and he was not impressed. I thought they were very good--he ate lots of bread and coleslaw!
Monday, June 8, 2009
Happy Anniversary
Oops I forgot something when I posted the blog last night. Yesterday was my sister Ann and brother-in-law Danny's 34th wedding anniversary and it was also their daughter Niki and her husband Eric's 12th wedding anniversary. Happy Anniversary dear family, we love you.
Sunday, June 7, 2009
June Snow
Jim and Ellie don't read this! The snow started yesterday afternoon late and it was still snowing this morning. None accumulated as the ground is too warm, but still--34 degrees and snow in June. All my potted flowers are inside and the poor birds are cleaning out the feeders in less than a day. Jazz has no interest in being outside.
Friday evening Jeane, Steve, Denny, Ellen and Gemma came for dinner. We had a marvelous time and great food if I do say so myself (everybody else said so, too!). We had grilled flank steaks marinated in olive oil, rosemary and garlic, day before mashed potatoes, tomato and mozzarella cheese salad, green beans with butter, lemon juice and almonds and finished off with rhubarb crisp and vanilla ice cream. We all waddled off to bed that night! Denny and Ellen are getting ready to leave the valley, Ellen to Seattle to work for the summer (she is a nurse) and Denny to the Philippines to work with the mission they support for deaf children.
Saturday I tidied up the house a little and quilted until Mom and her new friend Chuck arrived. As you know Mom is working over in Yellowstone Park this summer and so is Chuck. He is a fulltime RVer and on his way from TN to Yellowstone, stopped in Arkansas and spent a couple of weeks there getting to know the family. It was good to meet him, an easy person to be around.
Today Mom and Chuck left before lunch, Mom was worried about the mountain passes inside Yellowstone Park that might be closed due to snow. She works at Canyon which is in the interior of the Park. Well, sure enough, the passes were closed so she was stranded at Chuck's in Gardiner for a while.
Michael spent the day recuperating from whatever bug he acquired while in Billings at the car auction on Saturday with Steve and I spent the day quilting.
At present, the snow has stopped.
Pretty yellow flowers in a snowstorm at Natural Bridge, boy was it cold and windy while we were there.
I took this photo at sunset last night, the snow had stopped and the sun was peaking out for a very short while. The sun was hitting the snow covered, burned mountains behind our house and the colors were glorious.
A hungry Hummer.
Friday evening Jeane, Steve, Denny, Ellen and Gemma came for dinner. We had a marvelous time and great food if I do say so myself (everybody else said so, too!). We had grilled flank steaks marinated in olive oil, rosemary and garlic, day before mashed potatoes, tomato and mozzarella cheese salad, green beans with butter, lemon juice and almonds and finished off with rhubarb crisp and vanilla ice cream. We all waddled off to bed that night! Denny and Ellen are getting ready to leave the valley, Ellen to Seattle to work for the summer (she is a nurse) and Denny to the Philippines to work with the mission they support for deaf children.
Saturday I tidied up the house a little and quilted until Mom and her new friend Chuck arrived. As you know Mom is working over in Yellowstone Park this summer and so is Chuck. He is a fulltime RVer and on his way from TN to Yellowstone, stopped in Arkansas and spent a couple of weeks there getting to know the family. It was good to meet him, an easy person to be around.
Today Mom and Chuck left before lunch, Mom was worried about the mountain passes inside Yellowstone Park that might be closed due to snow. She works at Canyon which is in the interior of the Park. Well, sure enough, the passes were closed so she was stranded at Chuck's in Gardiner for a while.
Michael spent the day recuperating from whatever bug he acquired while in Billings at the car auction on Saturday with Steve and I spent the day quilting.
At present, the snow has stopped.
Mom, Chuck and I drove up to Natural Bridge yesterday afternoon, the river is running high.
Pretty yellow flowers in a snowstorm at Natural Bridge, boy was it cold and windy while we were there.
I took this photo at sunset last night, the snow had stopped and the sun was peaking out for a very short while. The sun was hitting the snow covered, burned mountains behind our house and the colors were glorious.
A hungry Hummer.
Friday, June 5, 2009
Whew, I'm Pooped
It sure was hard to roll out of bed this morning--I feel like Al from The Bayfield Bunch. Yard work is making an old woman out of me! Yesterday I finished weed whacking the grass down by the county road along the worm fence, mowed the grass here at the house and baked bread (the easy part).
In the evening I went to the Peace by Piece Quilt Quild meeting in Livingston for the first time. It was an enjoyable group of ladies, they had brought quilting things they did not want and there was a silent auction-fun.
Michael had a rough day yesterday at his son's. He started the project to re-do the water supply going to their house, broke the lines as he was digging them up, caused all sorts of water problems in the house--not a good day! He has to go back today and finish fixing his disaster and it is supposed to rain.
A few days ago someone sent me one of those e-mails where if you send it to several friends something wonderful will happen at an exact time. I usually delete these e-mails but this one, I liked the message so I forwarded it to several friends including my good friend in Kansas City, Kelly. Kelly is a true type A personality, extreme energy, loves to work, probably will never retire. We both started working for Kimberly-Clark on the same day and she had decided that the hand writing was on the wall--it was time to leave. BUT--she needed to find something to do--her house sparkles as does her yard and she just has to have something to do. She has been searching and was in the interview process with a firm in Michigan--Kelly is a RN with a MBA and very talented. Within minutes of the "exact time" the e-mail said something good would happen to her, she got a confirmation that the job was hers. It will be a wonderful position--lots of travel, excellent pay and benefits--I am so happy for her. I told her my angel hadn't shown up yet cause I asked for a yard work angel!
Today I must clean the house, I have put it off but we are having company tonight for dinner, it is friend Ellen's birthday!
In the evening I went to the Peace by Piece Quilt Quild meeting in Livingston for the first time. It was an enjoyable group of ladies, they had brought quilting things they did not want and there was a silent auction-fun.
Michael had a rough day yesterday at his son's. He started the project to re-do the water supply going to their house, broke the lines as he was digging them up, caused all sorts of water problems in the house--not a good day! He has to go back today and finish fixing his disaster and it is supposed to rain.
A few days ago someone sent me one of those e-mails where if you send it to several friends something wonderful will happen at an exact time. I usually delete these e-mails but this one, I liked the message so I forwarded it to several friends including my good friend in Kansas City, Kelly. Kelly is a true type A personality, extreme energy, loves to work, probably will never retire. We both started working for Kimberly-Clark on the same day and she had decided that the hand writing was on the wall--it was time to leave. BUT--she needed to find something to do--her house sparkles as does her yard and she just has to have something to do. She has been searching and was in the interview process with a firm in Michigan--Kelly is a RN with a MBA and very talented. Within minutes of the "exact time" the e-mail said something good would happen to her, she got a confirmation that the job was hers. It will be a wonderful position--lots of travel, excellent pay and benefits--I am so happy for her. I told her my angel hadn't shown up yet cause I asked for a yard work angel!
Today I must clean the house, I have put it off but we are having company tonight for dinner, it is friend Ellen's birthday!
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Motorhome Cleaning
The morning was spent working on the VW, Michael has it running like a top now and I spent the morning cooking and cleaning a little in the house.
It rained most of the night and our aspen tree grove has us feeling as if we live in a jungle. The beautiful little birds, lazuli buntings, rosy red finches and gold finches are eating me out of house and home, I fill the feeders sometimes twice a day. We have many hummingbirds, too.
It rained most of the night and our aspen tree grove has us feeling as if we live in a jungle. The beautiful little birds, lazuli buntings, rosy red finches and gold finches are eating me out of house and home, I fill the feeders sometimes twice a day. We have many hummingbirds, too.
We both spent the afternoon out in the motorhome, me cleaning, Michael working on the water system again--seems as if we have a bad pump!! Jazzy spent the day snoozing as usual--lazy dog!
Tuesday, June 2, 2009
A Rainy Cleaning Day
A short walk in the rain was the extent of our exercise today--it is very cool and rainy, our friends say welcome to Junerary in Montana.
The motorhome began calling me today saying clean me so that's what I started out to do until I discovered the major water leak around the hot water tank and had to go call the plumber, aka Michael. He quickly discovered that it wasn't the hot water tank but a water filter under the kitchen sink and the water had seeped into the other compartment. Older motorhomes are definitely not built like the newer ones for sure! I did get the bedroom windows and mini-blinds cleaned. It is going to take me a while to get it all cleaned. Michael spent some more time figuring out the electrical system and buttons after he fixed the water leak.
About 4pm, we headed to Livingston to have dinner with our friends Gwen and Arch. Gwen is also our realtor and she wanted to discuss plans for selling our property we own near Billings. We had a great meal at the Rib and Chop House and discussed all the options for trying to move that piece of land this summer.
A quick grocery store stop (there is an Albertson's in Livingston) then we drove home in a steady rain. One little black dog was very glad to see us.
The motorhome began calling me today saying clean me so that's what I started out to do until I discovered the major water leak around the hot water tank and had to go call the plumber, aka Michael. He quickly discovered that it wasn't the hot water tank but a water filter under the kitchen sink and the water had seeped into the other compartment. Older motorhomes are definitely not built like the newer ones for sure! I did get the bedroom windows and mini-blinds cleaned. It is going to take me a while to get it all cleaned. Michael spent some more time figuring out the electrical system and buttons after he fixed the water leak.
About 4pm, we headed to Livingston to have dinner with our friends Gwen and Arch. Gwen is also our realtor and she wanted to discuss plans for selling our property we own near Billings. We had a great meal at the Rib and Chop House and discussed all the options for trying to move that piece of land this summer.
A quick grocery store stop (there is an Albertson's in Livingston) then we drove home in a steady rain. One little black dog was very glad to see us.
Monday, June 1, 2009
What Happened To Spring?
We woke this morning to grey skies and 44 degrees. A light misting rain has fallen most of the day. The last four days have been awesome, sunny and close to 80 degrees each day--so what happened to our spring, winter came back--I have a fire in the fireplace as I write this!
Sunday I found muscles I didn't know existed! I had Michael teach me how to run a chainsaw--YIKES! And I started in on the brush pile that was such an ugly mess off the end of our deck in the creek. I burned the trimmings and carried armload after armload of limbs to the burn pile. Sunday evening I could hardly move! But, our busy social calendar called and we were off to Nancy and Geoff's just up the road--good company, wine and food--what more could you ask for??
Took this photo yesterday when we had sun, my lettuce, radishes and peas are sprouted.
Balsam Root
Yesterday Michael worked out in the motorhome all day fixing some little things and trying to make sense of all the buttons and gadgets.
Sunday I found muscles I didn't know existed! I had Michael teach me how to run a chainsaw--YIKES! And I started in on the brush pile that was such an ugly mess off the end of our deck in the creek. I burned the trimmings and carried armload after armload of limbs to the burn pile. Sunday evening I could hardly move! But, our busy social calendar called and we were off to Nancy and Geoff's just up the road--good company, wine and food--what more could you ask for??
The storm moving in this morning.
Took this photo yesterday when we had sun, my lettuce, radishes and peas are sprouted.
Balsam Root
Yesterday Michael worked out in the motorhome all day fixing some little things and trying to make sense of all the buttons and gadgets. I hurried and mowed the edges of our driveway and around the worm fence down by the road before the rain started. But I didn't get the weed whacking done before the rain came. I spent the rest of the day in the quilt studio--I purchased zippers at the quilting convention I attended and today I installed those zippers on the canvas leaders of the longarm machine. The zippers make it easy to take one quilt off and put another on.
Michael worked out in the garage all day, he is trying to make the Volkswagen run better.
Jazzy continues to improve, she is almost back to her normal self!
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