It got cold here in Las Vegas, a couple of hard freeze warning nights, and this week we'll be back to 60 degrees.

Wednesday I have to 'attend' a webinar from Colorado, and Thursday is driving day, 13 hours back to Colorado. I will visit my uncle in a nursing home in southwest Colorado, so am taking a very scenic route through Monument Valley to get there. I usually make a wrong turn when I head across unfamiliar country, and that's not all bad because I'm never truly lost, but tends to add a few hours to the drive.

Miss Eloise Kitty doesn't know that she will soon be riding shotgun across the desert. I would love it if we didn't have to put ourselves through the couple hours of her carrying on and panting until she gives up and settles down to enjoy the ride. Once she gets back to the mountains she will once again be able to go outside to hunt rodents, and I'm sure the mice have taken over the house so that will keep her busy.



Speaking of back home in Colorado, the wind has been blowing very hard, and I am anxious to see if any trees that lost their anchoring soil in the big flood have blown over.

Jeri sent me a fancy knitting book for Christmas and I have been working on one of the scarf patterns. It's tricky, but challenging in good way, and in between other things I have been planning my vegetable garden. It's always a challenge to find crops that mature in an short growing season and cooler nights. Last year I didn't do a very good job at planning, and my garden was slap-dash, with flowers crowding out the vegetables, but it was pretty, and I didn't mind so much. All I want from it is some tomatoes, some cucumbers, and three to five zucchini squash a week. And a few radishes might be nice.