Coffee Creek is at it’s highest after two weeks of rain on top of a massive snow-melt. The lake is two feet above full and they are pumping water down the Trinity to the Klamath and the pacific and also though the Clear Creek tunnel to Whiskeytown lake, the Sacramento river and the Pacific via San Francisco Bay. Unfortunately there is a lot of water and these escape routes are full from other drainage’s, too.
Our local worry, tho, is that the dike across from us and just up-steam is starting to erode. The county was out looking at it today, but frankly, I don’t know what they can do. The snow-melt is only maybe half done and it just keeps raining. 😦
We’re going to Medford tomorrow to pick up daughter and the two grandkids for their visit. Shane has been calling every day to let us know who many days left! lol Still… it was a conversation stopper when I said, “I’ll see you tomorrow”! :laugh:

Or something like that! :laugh: Anyway, the baby tomatoes are just about right for my grandson gardener to plant out next week. Daughter and the two boys arrive on Tuesday, we go to Medford to pick them up. Their original tickets had them arriving at 6:30 pm which was great but they have been rescheduled three times since and are now arriving at 9:45 pm. My bro-in-law has threatened dire consequences if we wake him coming in at 10:30 at night. 😥 Naturally we’ll stay that the In-law Motel! 😀 Well, I’m going to make Sis go with us to guide us to the airport in the dark, anyway, so I’ll just blame her.;) I know the dogs are going to set up a racket when we arrive… they always do. 😛
In any case, I’m excited to have them out here. I’ve got all sorts of hard labor planned for my daughter’s ‘vacation’! Starting with cleaning out my storage room and holding a yard sale. She is going… at last!… to sort though the stuff she left here when she graduated from hi-school… how many years ago was that? Never mind, I don’t want to know! :blush:

It’s done and it only took a bit over 4 months! Not too shabby. I was sure the border alone would take that long! :laugh: I am pleased with the way it looks tho the yarn is just a tad scratchy. If I ever get around to making another PI I’ll use some handspun to make it soft. But now I’m back to weaving for awhile. I want to finish the hats and bags… That means pattern writing… groan… 😛
And it’s probably okay top plant the tomatoes… the lilacs are blooming and it looks like we’ll have a bumper crop of apples this year, judging from the flowers and busy bees.
Hope your spring is going well!

It was in the Barbara Walker book, one or the other of them, called Tulip Buds, but I thought it looked more leaf-like. Anyway, I like how it turned out. 🙂

Randy’s building a two story log house on the airport in Trinity Center and today he took some pictures from up there of the view the people will have. The redbud is blooming and the lake it only 5 foot below the glory hole, as full as it’s been in a long time. The rivers are still running high and the snow pack is still ample. But you have to admit, we have a pretty lake this year. A pretty year this spring. I hope you are all feeling well and happy. 🙂

I finally got this edging going. I think it’s going to be nice. They called it Tulip buds but it looks like poplar leaves to me. In any case I think it goes with the rose trellis. And besides… just like it! 😛 Be sure to look for the finished Pi here… in several months! 😀

Coffee Creek isn’t as muddy as it can get to earn it’s name, but I guess it could be called Latte Creek! :laugh: I wish you could hear it roar, it is really washing it’s bed these last couple days. The temps have reached into the lower 80’s and the extraordinary snow-pack up there this year is melting rapidly. Not dangerous here but the lake is rather full so I’m kind of glad I’m not living down river! 😛
But I have been really enjoying the sunshine after all those gloomy rainy days. I’ve been getting in a lot of heavy physical labor, too, doing clean up jobs that are usually Randy’s. He’s gone back to work with a vengeance. Everyone wants their job first, of course! I did get him to get out the chainsaw and cut down that poor decrepit Hawthorn tree so I could get it hauled off. And he put some time in the loom shop this morning to get orders taken care of, too. I probably won’t see him before 8 pm tonight. But I can tell him his Giants won, which he’ll take as good news, anyway! 😀
… and there’s only three more weeks until Karen and the grand kids get here! 🙂

Got more yard work done today. The sun was not really warm, but it was comfortable. This box was built using an old pile of lumber that’s been laying there for several years. By the time I was done there was only a few half rotted boards to haul off. It’s only half full because I want to get some manure to mix with the rest of the dirt. I’m going to plant the tomatoes from the seeds the boys sent out. They can tend this Little box and bucket garden while they’re here.
I hadn’t noticed how ugly that propane tank is, tho, until I saw this photo. Going to have to do something about that!
You can barely see in the background that my forsythia and flowering quince are starting to bloom. The buck-eye has some leaf buds but not much else is venturing out yet. Our last official frost date is June 1 so we have some time yet. We can usually ‘fudge’ on that but “you pays you nickle and takes you chances”!
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… at last! 😀

I spent a couple days with my Sis and went with her to visit with the ladies of the Rogue River Spinning group. A fun bunch of ladies who welcomed me into the group. I wasn’t able to get everyone in the photo, there were about 4 more, including Sis on the right side of the room. The beautiful Red & Silver Ashford wheel you are admiring is (she says modestly) mine. 🙄 I’m told I have to be really careful about the colors I spin else they clash! lol

But I’m home again and Very Happy :laugh: to see the snow is all gone from the lawns which are showing a tinge of green! So what is the forecast is gloomy… the sun is shining today!