Skiing and Planting the Garden!

Trails and Heltzels and Gefkens at Squaw Valley

Hi all,
We had a fun week last week skiing up at Lake Tahoe. The kids had all week off, so we rented a house with another family and headed up the hill. We were expecting the snow to be scarce due to the fact we've had such a dry winter here in California, but the conditions were fine and the kids had a great time! We ran into some other friends from home, the Heltzels, and Maggie had  fun skiing with the girls while the boys went up to the tippy top.

Delicious soup courtesy of Lisa

We rented a nice house in Tahoe Vista, just up from the lake in the woods, with a comfy living room and lots of jigsaw puzzles and games to play with.

Snowball fight - the kids took the high terrain...

The kids somehow found more energy to go out and make snowballs, build a snow fort, and slide over ramps on sleds! We did take a day off from skiing halfway through the week - for me, it was harder work than skiing though!

...leaving me at the bottom winging balls uphill fruitlessly.

The top of Headwall - not quite ready for the double-black!

In the Funitel for one last top-to-bottom run

Mom and Maggie relaxing in the sun at Base Camp

A couple of days after we came down the mountain, of course, the next big storm blew in and dropped almost four feet of fresh powder. So now we need to find a way to get back up again and breathe that beautiful clear crisp air again before it all melts again!

The first herbs, greens, peas, beans, and carrots are planted...

Speaking of summer, after we got back to Mountain View, the weather was absolutely gorgeous - 77 degrees F, so we decided to go ahead and plan the vegetable garden and get some new plants in the ground! The pictures here are of Maggie and Annett planting, but it was late in the afternoon (since I had toiled away all day digging, hauling, building the irrigation, etc etc).

...next week we'll add more.

Now it's been nice and rainy this week but hopefully will clear up next weekend for us to plant the next batch of goodies! And we have our whole side yard for zucchini and tomatoes, a new orange tree, some blueberry bushes, and lemon/lime to come!

OK take care all!