Back In The Saddle Again

The blazing saddle, that is. We just spent the last ten days in Utopia, where we never saw a temperature over 85, wore jeans and long-sleeved shirts and occasionally a jacket, and slept with our windows open with no air conditioning and no fan. It was absolutely wonderful...and then we came home to find that we actually live in a furnace. It got up to 100 today, and even now it's 90. Yuck! Fortunately (there's irony in that choice of word), we have a mile-high pile of laundry to work through so we haven't been out in the heat. So, what did we do on our summer vacation, you ask? Well, here's a brief review:

• We worked on our cabin--texturing, painting, plumbing, cleaning, organizing, etc.
• We laughed, talked, sang, danced, played games, rested, ate lots of yummy food, etc.
• We abandoned all responsibility--no cooking, no dishes, etc.
• We spent quality time with family
• We took a scenic drive through the mountains
• We enriched our lives with a cultural field trip to a minimalistic art gallery
• We took a special trip to the the McDonald Observatory, looked through a really big telescope, saw millions of stars, a few galaxies, some nebulae and tons of falling stars and meteors.
• Sometime during all this, I turned 30, and honestly the anticipation of that event was worse than the actual action.

So, anyway, we're home now and back in the saddle.