It's Spring! (mostly)

And I am SO ready for it! I'm sure we're not done with snow yet but I can pretend.

I escaped Mountain Home today and went on a wine tour to the Sawtooth Winery. The base community center organized the tour and drove two vans full of merry makers to the winery for tour and tasting, and then to Nampa for dinner. The winery sits on a hill overlooking the Owyhee Mountains.


I would like to see it in the summer--I'm sure it is beautiful. The tour was interesting, the wine drinkable, and the dinner quite good. It was a welcome escape.

I came home and further escaped into the book "Twilight." Yes, it's the vampire one. I finally succumbed to the hype and had to read it. Unfortunately, it really grabbed me and I have not accomplished much this week. (Altho I did make rice krispie bars--only because I could stir and read at the same time.) Fortunately, there is a waiting list for the second in the series so maybe I'll get something done.

Things have been a bit slow on the house. I ordered windows (boring but necessary) and finally decided on tile for the kitchen backsplash, which will hopefully be installed this week. I can then post pictures of a fully completed room. And it only took four months... The guest bathroom should be reassembled this week, as well, so anyone planning a visit will be have accommodations (hint, hint).

Tumblin Tumbleweeds

I think tumbleweeds must be the state flower. They love this place. As you know, they need wind to spread their seeds about. There are alot of tumbleweeds in this area. Tells you something about the wind around here, too. On my way to work the other day the wind was blowing like crazy and the tumbleweeds were oh so excited.

Yes, they get excited when it's windy. There was a buffalo sized one barreling toward the highway that I had to slow up for. I'm not sure which of us would have survived the collision, but I'm guessing it wouldn't have been me. The little ones were racing across the road. It was like they double dog daring each other to run out in front of traffic. When I was out walking the other night, I thought I saw a bunny hopping around in a yard. It turned out to be a tumbleweed playing Peter Cottontail. Another one looked like a daddy longlegs skittering across in front of me. They make me laugh.

Ya gotta take your laughs when and where you can get them around here...

Here's the most recent house project. No, the other projects are not finished yet, but that's certainly not stopping me from making a new mess.

This is the "purple bathroom" altho, as you can see it is no longer purple--yeah!
Flooring is on order so hopefully this won't take too long. (Right. After all this, you'd think I'd have learned that it always takes twice as long and three times as much money as planned.)