Seeing the Sights in Utah

We are doing something we haven't done in a decade and that is take our time and see a few things.

We hadn't know Tombstone was so close to daughter and son in laws so we bopped over there to enjoy that and even went to Boot Hill.

 

We took in a wild animal park/zoo Bearizona.

We are now up in Utah enjoying some time here. We hope all of you out there are doing well and stay safe.

Down In Arizona

We have been down here in Sierra Vista AZ for a week yesterday. We are enjoying our visit with a daughter C, son in law K and the two youngsters. It has been 10 years since our last vacation.

We saw a few sights as we drove past them.

DH has helped do a few things around their place and helped grandson plant a tree that the boy named Groot. Also helped fix the cracked sprinkler pipes.

They also put up a new screen door. Only took 5 hours :). They had to redo the door frame and etc.

This is our last day here. Then we will try and visit family in Flagstaff and be on our way home.

There Be Rain Here or Warm and Blooming

Yes, in fact we did get rain off and on for the past week. I know for others they have way too much with the floods and all that have devastated areas. But we were very very dry after a winter with hardly any snow.

We finally got potatoes planted not all put at least 4 rows of them. We still have more things that need planted.

 Grandson Logan graduated High School. Under him on the left is his older brother and on the right his cousin Gavin.

I have even managed to bake a few things in the wood stove, like bread.

Our lilacs bloomed this last week. Also the tulips and the narcissus.

An Early Spring?

Yes it is an early spring for us. It spit snow on us this past Saturday and only had one night of frost in a week. We have been getting some rain here and there this past week and we REALLY needed it. 

We have a raised bed box replaced around the asparagus bed. We still have the spring tilling to do to get the garden in.

The next thing was a nice thing, we brought down the old kitchen cabinet we found nailed to a wall in the barn. I have been putting old things I have found buried in the ground on the bottom shelf.

Then the Electric Co. came and took down the tree that was leaning over the power line and Dh got it cut up and we cleaned up the area and took the wood up to the barn area to dry for next year.

Dh took the tractor and even out the ground in both lean-tos so we could get the gravel in them.

 He also started clearing the area where the metal building is going to go.

 Then the gravel came.

In-between things we worked on the old wood cook stove, I was hand sanding but it was taking forever so dh took pity on me and used a wire wheel and the drill :) We had to drill out the dampers for the wood box and son dh Jr. helped with that as he and the two teens were here from Sunday night to a couple of hours ago.

I cooked supper yesterday of chicken cacciatore, noodles and biscuits on and in the cook stove. Works super.

 Dh and dh Jr. worked on the big dead tree out by our back fence line for about 3 hours.

Last but not least our apple tree bloomed this week. It doesn't look like the frost last week bothered it :).

Last of the snow maybe?

We may have seen the last of the snow for the year. This was a 4 or 5 days ago.

Since then we have even had daffodils popping out.

The tree trimmer from the electric company came in to start on one of our trees that is leaning towards the lines. He said he would be back with the big truck to take that top part off.

he also took down some of the branches that were overhanging the lines to the house and found a big part of that mountain maple is rotten. :( We are hoping we can take the rotten part off without taking all of the tree down. It really helps shade the house in the summer. 

Hubby started to get it cleared out of our yard. Something extra to do of course. There is also a whole lot of big branches around that back pine to take care of.

And of course my almost two decades wash machine died this past Saturday. Today I had to hand wash a few things and dh helped wring them out and hang them up. You can only go so long without washing under things. We have a new wash machine coming but it will be two weeks or more. I was shocked at the prices they are now, eeeeek.

Good thing we don't have to pay for it all at once or I would be washing clothes by hand all summer.

We got more beans taken out of the dry pods a couple days ago to. These are the yellow eyes I did last week.

The corn is a done deal also. :) I have some Indian sweet corn in the bucket as well.

So much to be done

Sheesh, didn't mean to be away for so long, If it wasn't one thing it was another.

Here are a couple of pics from last week.

I also noticed we were low on some things I normally keep extras of, Semi sweet Chocolate chips for one :). I know not REAL important but good to have around.

I have also noticed at this time of year we go through a lot of tissue, between colds and allergies it goes fast. So each time we shop I pick up 3 boxes. I was only doing that about once a month and it kept us up by 4 boxes.

Yeah handkerchiefs do the job, I grew up using nothing put them in times of colds and etc. but as long as I am able to pick some up it makes life easier. Yes spoiled, just like loving hot showers.

I have been looking on the Paleo foods and some of it really looks interesting and better for me with the health problems I have but don't know how well hubby with like some of them. Some of this cooking like Paleo I see I have already done some of for many years. More or less how I was taught to cook. But I got away from much of it.

Okay I am off to fix a toy. All take care.