Thinking Spring

How do you dig in the dirt and keep your hands clean....you don't!  It's that time of year again and I'm in my element!  Guess it all started when my Dad built a sand box for us kids.  Wherever I've lived I've had a garden. I love watching things grow and then preserving the harvest.  So nice to open a jar of home canned peaches in the middle of the winter.... "Hunny" got the dirt all turned in the garden last week and I've been planting.  Even saw signs that the radishes are coming up already.  More signs of spring...the horses are loving the curry comb, and turning their nose up at the hay I throw out for them.  Why eat dried up hay when you can have nice fresh spring grass?  Yup....it's a good life.

The winter steelhead season has opened and here is a look at the first steelie of 2011.   A 12 1/2 lb hen caught in the Illinois river.  We had fresh steel head for dinner....oh wow...delicious!

Home again

We're home again!  Took a little trip to Sacramento to see our little munchkins!  Baby boy munchkin...Sawyer is 4 months old now and 15+ lbs already.  What a little chubber.  My husband (PP) says it's the Superman milk he gets from his Momma, Raquel.  4 yr old munchkin, Trinity, is amazing.  How do you keep up with a 4 year old...you don't!  She's smart...too smart!  Keeps Grammy and Papa on our toes that is for sure.  the Mom and Dad munchkins ( Raquel and Don) and PP and myself took a day trip to visit with PP's Dad and Mom who live in Watsonville, CA.  Dad is 93 yrs old and a totally amazing person.  Mom keeps us all in line!  We spent a day and a night there in Watsonville and then headed back to Sacramento...spent the night there and on to Oroville to visit with PP's cousin John and his wife Sam.  We enjoyed a delicious dinner with them and tried to discuss and solved the problems of the world during our short stay.  J & S have an orange grove and were in the process of picking so our car ended up having every empty spot filled up with wonderful, organic, tree ripened oranges!  Makes my mouth water and I think I'll end this blog now to go have an orange.