June 18 2014 A Gift to Remember!

Gift from Nene!!

Fireweed near the house that bloomed
the day after Nene's visit

Wednesday 6/18.  Still basking in the glow of yesterday, feeling all warm and fuzzy. . .

Nene brought a gift for us when she visited.  Said we could keep it or shoot it and throw it over the ridge, but she just had to get it for us!  I love it!! (Not sure I'll keep it on the kitchen table though.)

Our Westie friends gave me some chocolate from Austria when they were here on Sunday.  Oh my!  I can't even mention the kind of chocolate I usually have in the same sentence.

After 18 years of paying to be in the drawing with 5000 others for less than ten licenses to go moose hunting in northwest Washington, a friend of ours finally won!  He has from October 1 through November 30 to hunt for one.  And in the state of Washington, you are only allowed one moose in your lifetime.  Needless to say, he is quite excited.

Thursday 6/19.  It was partly cloudy and 55 this morning, and time to get back to work.  After lunch we mowed the west side of the north slope of the south ridge.  A little more tricky as there are rocks and logs, but once again I walked in front looking for such things.  It was really too hot to do anything else after that.  Our high for the day was 76.

The girls gave us two eggs today.  It looks as though little Blondie has pushed her way up to second in their pecking order, leaving Betty on the bottom.  And speaking of pecking, they have been pecking on the wall of the garbage shed which is on the north side of their run.  They may be after ants and/or peeling paint, so I screwed in some metal siding there.  I'm sure their heads were ringing after a few pecks on it and we haven't heard anything since.

When Nene was visiting, she convinced me to take the trip to Idaho with her to see her sister-in-law, Claudia.  This evening she called to say we will be there from August 6 through 9.  So I will drive to her house in Port Orchard on the 5th and we will leave for Idaho on the 6th.  Am really looking forward to the trip.  We will be staying with Claudia and she lives in the northern mountains.  Hope Randy SoCal can be there then also.

JB is working on his Magic card deck this evening as he plans to go Down There to play in the Friday night tournament.

Friday 6/20.  It is 55 and mostly clear this morning.  No specific plans, but I have a long list to choose from.

Thought for the day: Accept - then act.  Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.  Always work with it, not against it.  Eckhart Tolle, from his book A New Earth: Awakening to Your Life's Purpose.