Home, Sweet Home But What Happened to Springtime in the Rockies?

We spent a day or an evening with each of our three Northern Utah families (Laurie & Evan Ockey, LaRinda & Trevor O'Donnal and Leon & Chrissy Lewis) sharing experiences, pictures and lots of hugs. Upon returning home we found things mostly in order on the home front. Within a couple days we had visits with our Southern Idaho families (Lance & Aubri Lewis and Leslie and Matt McKnight) and likewise enjoyed the reunions. We miss not being able to personally visit Lindsy and Ben Hartsock who live in Chicago but we have spent considerable time on Skype keeping in touch. The weather here in Inkom has shown that Old Man Winter is not yet about to give up. It has been raining, snowing and unseasonably cold most every day since we returned with more expected in the foreseeable future and below freezing temperatures every night.

We have not gotten all the work of being gone caught up but are still working on it. We did get our walk in today. It was cool but very invigorating. We got the two beautiful paintings given us by our Arkansas artist friends, the Bramwells, hung today (on left).

The sand painting we bought at the Four Corners needs to be framed to be hung. As a closing note, I don't know why but the days seem to be longer here. Maybe it's because I don't keep busy enough. It seemed we were on the go doing something new every day during our winter trip. But as soon as the weather warms up there will be plenty to do. The mice did a real number on our lawn through the winter, there are many willow branches blown down to rake up on the property every spring and the creek is running very high. The pond is completely filled with silt that will have to be dredged out before we can get our sprinkling system running.