remodel

Craig and I made a deal to do away with the hideous flooring on the main floor of our house. The kids and I do the demolition before leaving for Europe and he will lay the new floor while we are gone. Here is our part of the job...

dinner disaster

For some reason I decided to cook roast beef for dinner tonight. Sam had said a few days ago that he likes it and was generally negative about the preponderance of chicken on our menu, so I decided to humor him. The whole meal was labor intensive and an unmitigated disaster. Well, everyone said the potatoes were alright. Add to this that it was 92 degrees out and it made even less sense to be trying to serve a roast dinner.
After dinner we took the dogs and timed the walk over to the kids' soon to be completed new school building. Looks like it will take them anywhere from 20-30 minutes depending on how close they are to the tardy bell.

One reason I love Utah

This morning after I dropped the kids at their tennis lesson, I headed up Mill Creek Canyon for a hike.
Today being July 1st, the last stretch of the road up was open after being gated for skiers, snowshoers and dog walkers since November. I parked at Elbow fork and took the trail 2 miles up (and I do mean up) to Lambs Canyon Pass. Here is a picture of the view and one of the kinds of wildflowers I saw (23 different kinds in all). It was warm but nothing like the high nineties on the valley floor. I saw four other people and three dogs -- another reason I love Utah.

More road trip

This is where we camped on the first night. 9,100 feet and we were the only people there. The second picture is Old Faithful in Yellowstone Park.

Road Trip - the american way

The open road, sleeping in the car and Sam on a horse in Montana.

Hitting the road

Tomorrow morning Sam and I head out for our 'road trip'. The trip is built from the basic request Sam had to "just drive, and sleep in the car." We'll take the back seats out of the RAV4 and add foam and sleeping bags. Should be great fun. We are both very excited. Sam is so excited that he was trying to convince me to leave tonight --"we'll just drive for a couple of hours and then sleep somewhere." I managed to talk him down from that ledge of enthusiasm. We'll leave in the morning. We will take lots of pictures and come back Monday in time to collect Catherine from the airport at around midnight.

Grumpy Old Woman

I was reading my copy of More (a magazine for women over 40) last night in the bath and imagine my horror at the three page spread on how to apply leg makeup. I mean, really. It's bad enough trying to patch over the dark eye circles and sun spots on the face, but now, I'm supposed to make up my legs too!