Noisy morning
Noisy this morning…
But it is not all Karl!
Road work: the Road Home is being resurfaced….messy and noisy at the moment but it will be wider and smoother when they get done :)!
Posts from the ‘Misc’ category
This Friday
Raindrops on one of the last common harebells.
And on the leaves of an ivy along the driveway.
We have had wonderful rain through the summer and especially now in September. No fires close. A third summer with no fires and not much heat. Cheers rise from this house!
This Friday…
a good day for playing with sticks on a morning walk…
by beautiful mountains, with a LOT of green up high and golden fall grass below.
Karl and I took an early evening walk by the lake at Wayfarer’s and returned home to a golden evening.
This Friday.
Beating the heat…or when life hands you lemons…
Life handed me lemons…really – Lemons :)! Anyway, I have a Vita-Mix blender which I love more than a person should love a blender. But, I had been burning up regular blenders about once a year and have had the Vita-Mix for nearly 4 years. I make whole fruit/veg smoothies and this thing liquifies it all.
Montana decided to have some real summer – it nearly hit 90 yesterday!! The same forecast for today and not much cooling until the end of the week. In “it’s all relative” world, it is hot here. This lemonade hits the spot – lemons with most of the pith and peel (bioflavanoids!), honey and ginger. I look forward to all the lemons life can hand me…they are spendy, ya’ know :)!
Summers’ RV Park
The short story is that I had intended to leave early this morning for Costco/grocery …then decided I’d take the motorhome as it needs a run and would be cooler for Karl as I can run A/C off the generator when it is parked (plenty of space to park it where I shop). THEN decided that as long as I was doing that, why not take a run around the lake and maybe stay somewhere overnight if I found a spot I liked…and THEN decided why go to Kalispell, will just head around the lake – there is a Safeway I like in Polson (south end of the lake) so can get everything I want there… which I did but ended up coming home as it is hazy and sultry so wasn’t really looking like being outside would be nice and the place I had in mind didn’t have a great spot.
The spot I tentatively planned to stay overnight was just north of Polson on Highway 93. But when I decided that I would rather just go home, I about-faced which took me back across the river and through Polson…
Across the bridge.
Through Polson.
The Safeway.
Along the south east edge of the lake on MT 35…preparing to turn north towards Bigfork.
A quick stop at Bowman Cherry Orchards for some Rainier cherries…
…and some Flathead Cherry Wine! I bought a pound of Rainier cherries and a bottle of cherry wine. This particular bottle is a blend of pie (tart!) and sweet cherries – labeled a medium dry by Bowman.
So, currently, Bob, Karl and I are set up in the motorhome at home…central air and what we needed was here and it just shakes up the routine a bit, even if the house is just on the other side of the garage. It is thundering and dark and the A/C covers the noise. I get 1 tv channel and have Antiques Roadshow on which I never saw and am partly fascinated and partly just liking the human voices while I do the post and think what I want for my supper. Neither Bob nor Karl wanted out when we arrived at Summers’ RV Park.
There is more to this story…
More later, we are busy playing tourist this weekend, but Thank You to Marilynn, Rick & Jeannine! This well travelled Vernor’s came to me from the 3 of them – riding – and taking up a LOT of storage space! – in Rick & Jeannine’s motorhome – from OHIO!!
Goodbye Canada Dry Post for some of my personal history with Vernor’s.
Regrets
Fridays are extremely busy these days at BearDog Consulting. The mega-project involves a lot of meetings and Friday has a standing one. We – the programming team – usually find ourselves coding madly up until the last minute, then the meeting and then we laugh, make our notes for the coming week and wish each other well for the week end.
I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating. I am blessed to work with two other people who are both professional and personable, good humored, decent, caring, family people who I feel priviledged to both know and work with. They work as many or more hours as I and have spouses and 4 children each. We are located in Los Angeles, Kalispell and Nashville – hoo rah 21st Century.
Today, we finished at just after 5:00 p.m. my time which is 4:00 in Los Angeles and 6:00 in Nashville. We started early this morning. And Los Angeles has twins, who turned 11 today AND have THE flu.
It poured rain all afternoon. As often happens during times of intense work periods, I was not really aware and also not aware that the temperature in the house had dropped. I finished the work day a bit chilled. Karl had been inside most of the day. We both needed to be outside. Starting a fire in the woodstove and collapsing in front of it sounded like the best idea, but instead I donned raingear and then convinced Karl to get out and into the Jeep. Off we went to Wayfarer’s by the lake for a walk.
And I didn’t take the camera. It was pouring and gray… But as I drove down “the Road Home” – there was light to the West. I should have gone back for the camera… Despite the rain and gloom – the larch, the dying leaves of Aspen, Birch and Cottonwood – all of the colors of Fall – they were there. And there was a beautiful, western light.
It is a small thing in the grand scheme of things, but today, not taking the camera, regrets.
Above – Flathead Lake – from my phone.