Sunny in Utah

Another beautiful day in Utah.  Not a whole heck of a lot going on.  Finished my laundry, did my marketing and stopped by the Post Office.  I got my SEI Club package and look forward to scrapbooking.

Our squirrels are starting to train us to get their peanuts.  Now they are standing up on the rocks barking for their treats.  This is Mama squirrel and now when her little ones come to get their peanuts she chases all over the rocks and between the little pine trees.

Olive has been full of piss and vinegar tonight.  Toes and fingers are not safe.  She is so funny zipping around on the sofa.

B is for Bill (I'm doing the easy ones first)

Until Next Time,

Pam

Anna is Home

Anna came on from her visit to California on Wednesday.  I am always a nervous wreck when she makes the 7 hour drive.  I spent the morning cleaning to try and keep my mind off her drive.  She made it home around 4pm.  We drove down to meet her (she leaves her car at the bottom of the mountain).  Perfect timing we reached the bottom while she was driving up.

We have spent the last few days since she got home catching up.  We went to St. George yesterday for a "Girl's Day" saw the movie Bridesmaids, had lunch at Smashburger, went to Barnes & Nobel and Sees Candies.  It was a perfect day.

Here are some photos of the critters around the house

 This Hummingbird got stuck in our garage

 The Chipmunks like sunning themselves on the rocks

 The Hummingbirds are enjoying the new watering hole

Just getting ready to land for a drink at the bar

While in St. George I took some photos of some of the natural plants.  I think they are just beautiful.

Until Next Time,

Pam

Just Call Me "The Mountain Woman"

Yesterday afternoon Bill and I did our daily Pilates.  Afterwards I sat down on the sofa and placed my laptop on my lap and figured I would spend the rest of the afternoon playing on the computer.  After an hour Bill came into the house and said lets go for a little walk.

I put on my hiking boots (I know his kind of walks) and we headed down the driveway.  At the end of the drive we headed down the mountain and ended up in the pines and scrub oaks.  The ground there is very soft and a lot of rocks and lava rocks.  Not the easiest to walk on.  As we headed down towards one of the ravines I told Bill to watch his step but I was the one to lose my fitting and dropped down on the rocks onto my left knee, I did save the camera.  I worry more about Bill he is the one with bad knees.

It just amazes me how the pines trees will grow right up through the dead trees

After I took the photo of the trees we went down in the ravine to cross over to the other side.  I was following Bill.  Bill was at the bottom of the ravine and I was just getting to follow in his foot steps when I spotted a snake that Bill just walked over.  The first thing I thought was it was a rattlesnake looking at the marking on it.  

Bill came back over since I wasn't going to step over the snake too.  He used a long stick to gently pull the snake around so he could get a good look at it.  No diamond shaped head the snake started to go into the rocks no rattles at the end of its tail, not a rattler.  In fact it was not aggressive at all.

Now that I am on high alert for snakes I think I walked most of the way with my head down searching the ground.  After this point Bill turned into Mr. Gassy Pants and I was walking behind him.  OMG that is just not right.  I had to put up with him being gassy the rest of the hike!

This will give you a idea how far away from the house we were and how thick the trees and brush are around our house.  In all this thick forest you find wildflowers and they are beautiful.

Bill and I couldn't believe it we came upon another long dead deer this time a small buck. 

Here we are much closer to our house.  Our little hike ended up being an 1 1/2 hours long.  We watched some TV and then headed up to bed.  Let me tell you both of us could feel that walk as we slowly walked up the stairs to our bedroom.  Before going to sleep Bill said that I was turning into a "Mountain Woman"

Home Sweet Home

Until Next Time,

Pam

A little bit of everything today

Just my luck everytime I went to post on Blogger it was down.  So glad it is up and running now.  I enjoyed a nice breakfast of strawberries and bananas along with a pumpkin english muffin as you can see with a bit too much butter, boy was it good.

Sunday we had some wild weather we got right around 4 inches of snow along with thunder and lightening.  It melted fast put left a muddy mess that is finally drying out.  It was beautiful watching the snow and seeing the clouds come down over our house at times we couldn't see 5 feet in front of us.

Today was beautiful blue skies with large white fluffy clouds.  Bill and I went for a nice drive.  Here are some of the photos I took while we were out.

She moved pretty good across the street 

I was able to get a pretty good photo of this hawk but the one I took of the eagle was too blurry

I would love to know what kind of flower these are.  They were all over the desert.

She stood up so I could get a photo of her

This one was a bit camera shy

It's time for Pilate's this afternoon.  Tonight is Taco Night....yum!

Until Next Time,

Pam