Great weekend

We just had a really great weekend. While I went to work for a few hours Saturday morning Shawn and Brandon met up with a couple of guys and rode quads and dirt bikes and found some exciting new spots. We all got home around 1 p.m., the other guy went to pick up his daughter and we headed out into the desert behind the house to search for geocaches - little hidden containers that you find, take an item out of and put another item back into. You then sign and date a small notebook kept in them for that purpose, close it back up and hide it for the next person to find. We had four dirt bikes, the quad and, really exciting for me - my Jeep, top off and all. It ran really well and we all had a blast. That night we fixed carne asada burritos and ate on on the deck with friends - a great end to a great day.

Sunday was another beautiful day - temps in the low 80's. We got a lot accomplished - I enlisted Shawn and Brandon to help me haul railroad ties to the back of the deck and I built one of my rose beds, then got five planted. We cleared out the bolted lettuce and cleaned the hydroponics system, then replanted some new lettuce. Transplanted some tomato seedlings for traditional growth in containers, along with some sweet pea to plant where it can climb up one of the deck posts. OH! AND we have cherry blossoms! To see one of our dreams progressing was one of the happiest moments of our lives since we have come back to the States - being in the military you yearn for a place of your own where you can do what you want and now we have it and can make it into what we want.

We ended with a dinner of grilled chicken breasts with melted pepper jack cheese and avocado slices, steamed artichokes and grilled green onions. Dessert was strawberries dipped in melted chocolate with an apple wine from Washington state that we found - all out on the deck again under all of the stars. Perfect.