Vacation Day

Yes, we took a vacation day yesterday.  I know, that sounds ludicrous from a retired person.  But if you are married to the man that I am, you'd totally understand.  As you have read, we've been working hard because winter is coming here in about a month and we will not have the weather to work on outside projects - play yes - but not work on things like building patios...so Mark has goals he wants to achieve before the snow flies.  He pushes himself, not me!  Then he can slow down.  If we had moved in June, I think I'd be writing a different story.

Mark was not feeling his best yesterday so we decided it would be smart to just lay back and play.  So here is what we did:  drove to town and shopped, had lunch at Joey's Seafood Restaurant, shopped for winter boots and cross country skis for me (I've asked for the skis for my birthday or Christmas), and then the real fun started. 

We drove back and went to the beach; the weather was beautiful - 55 degrees, sunny with a light breeze.  Here are some photos:

Cool photo - fat tired bike on the left

Mark took this wonderful photos - driftwood and logs from visitor's beach fire

Mark and I walk almost out to that point

We found this little creation on the beach, someone had a good time putting this together

As I walked, I picked up things that I knew Keva would LOVE.  I also want to try to learn to craft with all the birch bark scattered about here.  I'll keep you posted as I start working with it.
 

This is the coolest piece - it reminds me of the large stone pillars in Utah's Moab Park

Drift wood and birch bark - Kev, you can have all you want

Strange wood long "bead" of wood - with a hole all the way through it

Complete round birch bark pieces, the wood decayed within and fell out as I picked it up

 After we came back from the beach we walked through our woods - getting to know it better.  Here are some of the photos we took

Birch tree sloughing its bark

Another example of the fall colors

Marks calls this the mutant tree - we have many fallen trees in our woods that need to be cleared out

It was a wonderful relaxing day!  Mark feels better today so it's back to work.