I took this President's Day holiday to heart and stayed home today and watched free HBO etc. movies. It ends tonight, but I can spend tomorrow watching the ones I recorded, and have some left over to watch next week.

Spring is here as far as I'm concerned. The ice is melting off the river, and will not be back until next December. The dipper birds aka Ouzels are out singing and walking underwater on the bottom of the river looking for bugs. Snow is in the forecast for Wednesday and Thursday, but that could easily change. We get most of our snow in March and April, so that's something to look forward to.

I'm thinking about this year's garden, am giving up on trying to grow tomatoes and zucchini and other warm weather vegetables because they don't do well at this altitude, and although I enjoy watching the plants growing, ultimately there is no reward. This will be the year of flowers to attract pollinators and hummingbirds. We don't have a shortage of those birds, but it would be nice to give them more flowers to visit.



This is actually the river starting to freeze up in November, but it's so pretty I had to post it.

One of the big machines building our highway.