"House it coming?"

Here's how it is coming along. . . . .

. . . Spring beak continiues. . .

One last fling for spring break. Saturday afternoon we decided to hike to the Citadel. It was such a breathing taking trip.

Round trip was about 3.8 miles. The weather was perfect, not too hot yet a breeze to keep you cool in the hike.

Rather precarious!

The point is the Citadel

Tucked under the right side are ruins.

Some of the most perfect ruins I've seen!

The best hiking companion!

Memories of My Mom

As the empty nesters were hiking Arch Canyon, the sweet signs of spring were abundant.

Pussy Willows!

I couldn't help but think of my mom. When I was a little girl, she would sit me on her lap, take my arm and while slowly walking her fingers up my arm; she would recite this little poem. It is recited going up in a C scale and when you get to the "meows" you go back down the scale.

I have a little pussy

Her coat is silver gray

She lives down in the meadow

Not very far away

She'll always be a pussy

She'll never be a cat

For she's a pussy willow

Now what do think of that

Meow

Meow

Meow

Meow

Meow

Meow

Meew

Scat!

Thanks Mom!

Spring Break

Our spring break activities. We went back to Arch Canyon to 4 wheel and then hike. We road the 4 wheeler the 9.5 miles up Arch Canyon to the end of the trail. We then hiked 7.5 miles (round trip) to see the "last arch." There are three arches all together, Angel Arch, Cathedral Arch and the last one, Keystone Arch. It was a beautiful ride, and great hike. We just had a wonderful time!

Keystone Arch

OK, so we see all these dear tracks in the sand by the stream, and then suddenly we see these "other" tracks - Cougar. Makes me just a bit nervous! Kind of makes you want to look over your shoulder the rest of the way!

Hard to tell from the picture, I'm standing on white sandstone looking down through a hole in the rock.

I'm down below and Mark is up above, sticking his head down through the hole!

Beautiful little spot!

Just a beautiful hike!

We finished the mop boards, moved back the furniture, someday I"ll hang up the pictures!

Here are the floor joists!

Let's hear it for spring break!

ITS WORK!!!

This is hard work. . .and that's all I have to say about that!

I'll do the mop boards - sometime, sooner than later, as the kitchen is a little "tight" with all the furniture in there. And we still have the kitchen to do - but I can't think about that right now!

My house is a house of order. . . NOT!

Its been awhile since I updated the "construction zone!" I waited 5 weeks, yes 5 weeks to be able to rent the machine to texture the wall. So, I found my ghost buster clothes and finished sanding the rooms, put plastic EVERYWHERE and let the walls have it!

Then one morning at 3:00 a.m. I wake up with the thought - I have about 12 weeks to get two baby quilts finished - I don't even have a clean space in my house that I COULD quilt, if I wanted to. So I began to "focus." I painted the living room and painted some more.

We ripped out the carpet and the padding and oh, how disgusting! I put in a brand new vacuum bag and FILLED IT WITH DUST!!! AHHHHH! I cleaned up literally 10 lbs. of dirt from under the carpet - how sick!

So we cleaned, pulled out staples, scraped bumps and it is NOW ready for the flooring! (Tomorrow!)


The downstairs bedroom is a lovely "buttercup" yellow with white ceiling and cabinets.

I put some sticky tiles on the floor in the closet and "sometime" we will carpet the room and do the floor boards.

And if that isn't enough chaos in one household - we started the addition to the house!

It was rather daunting to see this big hole in my yard!

The footings are done, the foundation is poured - let the framing begin!

Someday - my house WILL be a house of order!

Arch Canyon - On a Spring Like Day

Yesterday couldn't have been a more perfect day. There are several things that are on the top of my favorite things to do list and now I have to say that 4 wheeling is right up there! I have been to Arch Canyon before - on the back of a 4 wheeler - but this time I drove myself!!!! I just loved every minute of it. There were a couple of "tricky" spots but I only had to have help on one spot. Just take a minute and look at all the beautiful scenery we got to enjoy. It was fabulous. I would recommend this ride to EVERYONE! At the end of the trail, we hiked about 1/4 of a mile to an arch. It was just so fun. How lucky we are to live just minutes from such beautiful places.