Beginning of the End

Well, today is the first day out of the last tour of the summer. This means that you might start hearing from me again soon! Yay!

We had a lovely tour group last week, and this upcoming looks promising as well...

I finished the knitting on my sweater (my first human-sized sweater!) and am looking forward to doing the finishing and posting pictures of me wearing it... if it fits. I'm still not too sure.

I also have another surprise that I don't want to reveal sans photos, so move to the edge of your seat!
*Please note, though, that you might be there a little while*

Pictures Hopefully Saying the 1000s of Words I Haven't

So, I'm not sure how widely I spread the word, but we started out this tour season with Slav, along with a bunch of tour supplies, getting stuck in an elevator at Public Storage. I called 911 -my first time- and the firemen arrived. They were promptly befuddled by the strange elevator door, and proceeded to the method favored by manly fireman types the whole world round: brute force. They produced an impressive box of power tools, 8 foot long crowbars and other toys. I even got to see them make a human pyramid! Meanwhile, Slav was inside trying to hammer his way out with a standard household tool: Stand back, Moderation, the firemen are here!

This was the final result of the elevator incident. (Slav is not inside.) I was REALLY disappointed to miss the opportunity to take the "Slav crawls out of the elevator" picture. Maybe next time...

On the the bike tours!
beautiful little watermelons in the field

the delicious and surprising artichoke - check out the bee visiting the lower edge

Yay! Baby bull (6 weeks old) snuggling!

Until he started eating my pants... They have gigantic velcro-like tongues able to scoop in a large amount of pant let in one slurp!

self portrait in the Alder Creek Farm greenhouse

Slav the bull fighter - he looks a bit freaked out to me! (3 weeks old bull)

self portrait

California Trip

Muir Woods Hike

THE Muir Woods log with me inside

California is a different sort of place...