We have the trim completely finished in the basement and just have to finish the bathroom. We have even made progress on the outside of the house (the house itself is still purple but the yard is looking better!) I have 200 iris bulbs to plant and we are transplanting a bunch of local grasses from the hillside above the house. We've had amazing weather and saw two huge bears this past week. The last one had to be close to 400 lbs.......easily the biggest bear we've ever seen in the wild!
June and Riley came up and spent a weekend with us. Riley ripped it up on a mountain bike ride and June made us the best dinner! It was so nice to come home to a hot meal, it made us feel like we were kids again.
We want to send a special shout out to Mary and Andy for the arrival of their beautiful little girl! She looks like an angel and we are so happy for you! We miss all of you and hope you are all doing well.
Our "gym." We thought if we had some red on the walls it would energize us this winter!
The view into the basement
We still have to finish the stair railing but it looks so much better than before!
We had to cover up the main water pipe and thought that adding shelves would make it look a little better.
This is the view into the W. Fork of Gold Creek. It is part of the Wilderness by our house.
A family of BigHorn Sheep.
Russ relaxing during our hike. We had to drive an hour to get to the start of the hike and then realized that this trail was only 16 miles from our doorstep! I got pretty carsick driving to the start of the trail so I decided to run the trail the rest of the way home. It would have been great except it was 90 degrees outside and I didn't bring any water. Russ and I used to make fun of Brett Gleason for sipping water out of a creek on his bike ride in Sun Valley. Never again... I now realize that person can only handle so much thirst! I still beat Russ home (but just barely) and my legs cramped so bad that I'm not walking too well today!! I just hope that my creek drinking experience doesn't come back to haunt me in a couple of days!
