February, 2022

 

CALIFORNI-I-A!

So, what is there to do in the middle of the freezing cold winter in California?

Go wine tasting with Maggie and Bobby at one of the 500 wineries in our immediate area or over 5000 state wide. California is the home to half of the wineries in the US so an emergency hydration station is never far away.

So what do we do when we have finished sampling the wines at the winery? Find another one!

Piper and Bruce, herself and what's his name

The Baby comes home

Our youngest, Cassie Anna, came home for a few days this month. The purpose of the trip was to accompany her grandmother back to Oregon where she will move in to her Taj-Ma-Trailer on their property. Sweetie Pie, as she is affectionally known to the whole family, is needing a little more daily help and Cassie and her husband Art wanted her to be nearby on their large property. Coming from the cold wet North West, Cassie was quite pleased to spend a few days in our warm sunny clime. Janice and I spent the past several weeks packing her mom's stuff up, preparing her for the transition. Art showed up after she left to drive her stuff back in his pick up.

A real bonus for me was having Art (an electrician by trade) oversee the preliminary wiring for a future Sauna on our property. He worked so fast that I didn't get a chance to get a picture!

Showtime!

As we go to press, we are 48 hrs from pulling the plug and heading to Seattle Washington for a week before boarding our flight to France. We have been here in California for only 2 1/2 months, much shorter than usual in order to try to get back on our pre Covid schedule and be where we should be at any given time of the year. Add to that that I spent a week of it on deployment and two weeks on quarantine and the time left to take care of business around here was pretty short. Still, we managed to get things and the property back up to snuff, so we are leaving it in good kit. No, no major projects got done but we are satisfied with what we did do. 

Always looking for a new skill set to pick up, I came across 

this in our hometown recently. Never know, could be handy.