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Grit, Manu, Rio and Rosa arrived Thursday. And the needle is pegged at max! Woohoo!

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It feels like it’s been a long time since we’ve done a good and hard house project. I mean like really GOOD and HARD! Long hours of strenuous manual labor, muscles required, sweat loss by the gallons, the neighbors driving by real slow wondering why on earth are we out there in the mid-day desert heat with shovels or up on the hot roof, pulling the headlamps out at night to finish, get it done! get it done! kinda days where an ice cold beer or margarita at the end of it all never tasted so good. Like this, this, or wow….remember this!

Well, after 18 years of despising our mess of a “driveway” and too many no-quotes on finding a contractor crazy enough to fix it, we picked up our shovels and added one more good and hard do-it-yourself proj to the house project tick list.

And yes, that beer tasted like heaven.

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Spring cleaning, spring bloom, spring trail runs, and spring harvest from the garden. Spring break coming up next….in Yosemite!

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Let me count all the ways last year was not good: lack of summer monsoons being just one item of many. No significant cloud formation even, let alone glorious drops of water falling from the sky.

….so you can imagine the excitement when this happened – the start of what is turning out to be a legit summer monsoon season. I kid you not, we heard hoots and hollers from afar when we ran out in it. (I even teared up a little bit).

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Many things didn’t go well last year, our garden included. Home bound with the pandemic last spring we had decided to do a planting, but even under our tender loving care it never had a chance. The critters were RELENTLESS. They dug, climbed and jumped their way in, eating every last tasty green morsel. We thought the basil would be spared, because for the longest time it went untouched. But nope, after everything else was eaten…..they ate that too.

Things are seeming better this year. Garden…and otherwise. 🙂

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As Ivan would typically say in a moment of reflection such as this: “Thank you, Mother Nature!”

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