February Love

February seems to be going by quickly, though, I have enjoyed every minute (except for a power outage and snow in the attic).  It's been all of the best for me, snow, snow days, Love Week, our wedding anniversary, Valentine's Day and a house party with friends. All the loves.

 This sunshine was the calm before another storm.

 I like to get outside in the snow so I shovel the driveway, bring in the firewood, get the mail and take photo walks. Any excuse to be outdoors!

 It was back to school on Friday and since there hadn't been school Monday through Thursday, we celebrated Valentine's Day on Friday. And y'all know how much I love Valentine's Day at school.

 It's all so sweet and first graders are really kind and thoughtful.  

 On Friday evening our friends arrived to spend the weekend at The Stone House. We had a Valentine dinner for them.  The girls dressed for dinner.  It was fun and cozy.  

Since I had four snow days that week, I worked on my napkin folding skills. 

Hubby created some delicious cocktails and helped with the cooking.

 It was so great to visit with our camping friends in February.  We are making a point of meeting up in the off season.  I love it!

 Annie is safe in the carport but still gets snow due to the NE winds.

I have two Sisters on the Fly trips scheduled for 2019.  Hubby and I have about 7-8 other trips on the books.  I know, right? It looks like a fun summer!

It's snowing like crazy right now and sooo pretty!  Get out there and enjoy it.

Love Week 2018

Oh February, I love thee. The sights, the smells and the lovely feelings are a mid winter treat.

Hubby and I celebrated 30 years of marriage this week. We made a point of planning something special to commemorate 30 years. We made reservations at the Chrysalis Inn and Spa. We had a beautiful room, gorgeous weather for walking, a spa day, cocktails at Galloways, and a delicious dinner at Keenen's on the Pier.

We decided to get dressed up for our special occasion.  Life is as special as you make it.

A suit and tie, a velvet dress and fur cape do make an evening more special than jeans and boots.

 On Valentine's Day, I subbed and I LOVE to be at school for Valentine's Day.  Oooh, they were wired, snow and a holiday that involves cupcakes, chocolate and a party!  Oh. My.  I only had a half day, which was fun and enough.

I came home where I had soup in the crock pot, the table set and guests arriving shortly.  It was my turn to host Pie Pals and since it was Valentine's Day I decided to have lunch instead of pie for them.

 Holly had given me my vintage truck and trailer cake topper and I dolled it up with hearts.

 Oh Miss Becky!  We miss you.

 Hubby made dinner for Sam and I, another delicious meal and a good visit with Sam.

Today I am home, trying to get caught up, cleaned up and sorted, and get rid of my second cold.

Late next week, Palm Springs! The sunshine should help. 

#poolside 

Quiet but Lovely LoVe Week

We had a quiet LOVE week here.  We celebrated our anniversary with dinner at home and we celebrated Valentine's Day with dinner at home.  We enjoy being at home and I enjoy cooking and making special meals so everyone was happy.

Hubby brought me coffee in bed on Valentine's Day.  He used my valentine mug and gave me a pretty valentine card.  I got flowers for our anniversary.

It was quiet but so good to celebrate this week.

Next up, sunshine in the desert, #poolside, good friends, a spa day and some adventures.

Boarding passes are printed, bags are packed, here we go!

Pie Fixes Everthing

After the snow storm the pie pals were ready to get out of town.  We had a field trip planned for Friday, and surely by then we would be able to leave town.  By Thursday I do not think another 15 inches of snow could have stopped us.  We were busting out. 

It was Jodi's turn and she says she doesn't bake pie so she would drive. 

We got to a Starbucks in Skagit and she brings out the cutest, tastiest pies ever.  Little heart shaped pies in wax paper bags with Valentine embellishments. She does bake!

Jodi and Shelly ran into Starbucks to get coffee, Becky decided to dash in and use the facilities, Holly and I are in the car and we see Becky come running out of Starbucks and jump into the wrong car. There was a woman in the passenger seat who looked quite frightened.  I could not stop laughing at her reaction, and at Becky's reaction. I am laughing with tears running down my cheeks as I write this story.  It all happened so fast.

I guess you had to be there.

Anywhoo, those pies were delicious!

We had a great time shopping in Arlington.  They have a hardware store in Arlington that is fantastic. And other antique and gift shops in their downtown.

We found our motto.

 We did a little junkin' and I love the television in the window of this shop for the '47 Curtis Wright.

We had planned to go to the Stilly Diner but they were closed so we tried a new place in town, Kafe Neo Woodstone Taverna.  Everyone raved about their food and drinks. We want to go back so we can have lunch at the Stilly and at the bowling alley.  More trips to Arlington, yes please!

Jodi found her recipe for the pies on Pinterest.  They make a sweet Valentine treat.

Cherry Cream Cheese Hand Pies

There was a lot of post storm therapy, shopping for diamonds and guns and some junkin'.

Pie fixes everything but the pie pals sure help too.  Oh, and diamonds.  Diamonds help everything.

Love Week 2016

 Love Week lasted longer than a week this year.  Nothing wrong with that!

We had our trip to Leavenworth in honor of our anniversary the weekend before and then still had our anniversary and Valentine's Day to look forward to the next weekend.

For our anniversary we stayed in and I made dinner.  Hubby made a cocktail that called a Bee's Knees. The evening was lovely and we were happy to be inside since it has been raining constantly.

On Valentine's Day I made heart shaped pancakes for breakfast and then we spent the afternoon in downtown Bellingham, poking around Penny Lane and other junk shops including Ormolulu.

 On the way home we met friends at the new Overflow Taps and shared a sampler with them.

Tuesday night my Mom and our friend, Adelene joined us for the traditional heart shaped meat loaf dinner.  My table had a cherry theme, the salad had cherries and the dessert was a cherry chip cake.  Cherry chip cake is Hubby's favorite.  The candy is all cherry too.

The cherries were a nod to George Washington as our dinner was closer to President's Day than Valentine's Day.

Hubby provided valet service so the ladies didn't have to drive.   We had lovely guests and a fine evening to finish Love Week.

Until next year...

Never Say Never

Hubby and I took a trip this past weekend to visit his Mom and Max.  We had such a nice time in Eastern Washington.  Esther had been gone over the holidays so we hadn't seen her for quite some time.  Max had promised he'd take us hunting so we were looking forward to that too.  When Max was driving a combine around during harvest he had spotted a few vintage trailer graveyards.  

Now that Huaka'i Annie is 90% finished we have the bug to start another project.  

Yes, we swore we'd never restore another trailer. Yes, we said we'd never take on such a huge overhaul again.  We would never ever take on a project where the tin has to come off. 

Never say never.

That word, never, has bitten me in the bum so many times.

A hunting we will go...

This little trailer looked like it's being used and it's too small for us.  Annie is now our little trailer and we'd like a bigger one with a bathroom.

 One of these is too old and one of these is too new.

I am not throwing my guys under the bus here but I am the one that has to go to the door and try to find the owners of the trailers.  I left notes and cards.  Because NO one answers the door.  Some places looked a little sketchy and there are pit bulls tied up in the yard.  It's not for the faint of heart because one just never knows if there is another pit bull coming around from the back and one never knows if the owner is an angry, crazy person. I'd hate to interrupt someone cooking up a fresh batch of meth.  It might make them mad.  Proceed with caution was my mantra for the day.

We visited one graveyard in the morning and then after many miles and trailers we decided to go back to it.  Just in case someone changed their mind and decided to answer the door.

Turns out the land owner was there and yes, he'd like to get rid of some of the trailers.  He wasn't angry or crazy just real nice!

I won't show full on photos until I have the trailer in my hot little hand or in our driveway. 

But one of them looks just right.  It has a front door and a back door.  The appliances look salvageable and the water damage isn't too bad, no worse than the Aloha.

 There is a bathroom.  Woot!

 And then like a sign from above I found one of the missing doors in the weeds.

We'll know more by the end of the week if this trailer can be our new project.

I'm hopeful.

We had a lot of fun hunting with Max.  He's a good scout and a good sport.  

Of course, he wants a finders fee...

On Sunday, we drove to Leavenworth, this time we were hunting for snow instead of trailers.

We watched the last quarter of the Superbowl at Icicle Brewing Company. 

 The lights are beautiful in Leavenworth and the little kids sledding in downtown were pretty fun to watch too.

On Monday we drove to Cashmere to visit their antique mall and Apple Annie's to do some junkin'.  I had a Santa sighting.  No joke, his sleigh was parked out front when we left.  Turns out he drives a Fiat on the off season but it was clearly marked Mr. and Mrs. Claus.

 Our plan was to snowshoe but the snow wasn't fresh so we walked/hiked instead.

It was a relaxing time for us.  We got to visit Hubby's cousin, Darrin and Nery and their sweet family.

They live in Leavenworth within walking distance of downtown.

 Such a great trip with Hubby!  A very nice beginning to Love Week. And we saw a lot of snow, so I was very happy,  I guess you could say we had a good hunting trip.