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Spent the Weekend with Friends

We haven't been anywhere since mom came to stay. Friends of ours offered their daughters place which is right next to theirs. No this isn't it, this is an old mining shack in Placerville that fell with the snows this year.
It was so nice to get away and this was quite comfortable, even though we were in it just to sleep. It rained at night and was nice and cool, everything smelled so good the next day.
Grand Jean is just beautiful and is at the foot of the Sawtooth Mts. There's still snow at the top. In Idaho there are lakes and streams everywhere. Further down where there are more rapids, we saw lots of river rafters. The water has to be cold as the snow is still melting.
Even with several forest fires in the area the last few years, there are trees and flowers everywhere. We saw several deer.
There are also atv trails everywhere so we mostly read, slept,visited, ate and rode our atv's. Life is good! When we cam home Mom was fine.

More Things I like about Idaho

Nature, there are animals and birds everywhere. We watched the mother hawk feed her babies.

We always have beautiful fluffy clouds even on warm sunny days. Not quite this many clouds in warm weather, but always a few billowy ones. Notice how blue the sky is here, and at night you can see billions of stars.

This doesn't show up to very good, but in the center is a big rock that was hit by lighting years and years ago. It looks like a loaf of bread with a slice. It's called bread loaf rock. We used to pass it when we went to mom and dad's cabin in Cascade. They have made a new road since then so we had to go on an old road to find it.

Happy Anniversary to Us!

We've been married 45 years, 6 children, soon to be 24 grandchildren and still counting. Retired and loving life. Not a bad ride. My grandfather always told me the first 50 years are the hardest. We're almost there! Like all marriages there have been ups and downs, but we've really been blessed and it has mostly been great!

We were going to do something exciting, like a cruise, but since my mom is here now, we just decided to get new counter tops instead. We went out to dinner and a movie yesterday so that was nice. It's just nice being healthy and being together.

After Pictures of Kitchen

It seems so much bigger now! I think it's the lighter color.

I like the back splash all the way up on the island

It just looks so much cleaner! We had several choices on edges and decided to go simple with the bull nose edge.

OK, I didn't think it mattered about a sink, but this is a work of art. I love the under mount. We decided not to go cheap on that, and the faucets just came from Sam's Club. It just makes the kitchen pop.

Just an over all look at the kitchen. I think I need to clean off the fridge.

Before Pictures of Kitchen

This was our island before the new counter tops. I really didn't mind it that much. Until I got the new ones and what a difference.

The darker counter top really made it look smaller.

I didn't mind the sink, but we changed in to stainless steel in case we ever decide to move, I guess they sell better.

Over all picture of kitchen

Before and After Pictures of our Bathrooms

Since we're not traveling so much, we decided to use the money for new counter tops. We also did the kitchen, but the after pictures have too much of a glare so I'll post them tomorrow

This is my side of the master bathroom before

This is the guest bathroom

We put in marble counter tops for the bathrooms, in a light sand color. This is my side of the bathroom

This is Les's side of the bathroom.

Guess What This Is!

OK, I'm getting pretty hard up for content.

You can see it again in the background. This is Canola. So the next time you buy a bottle of Canola oil to cook with, this is where it comes from.