A Short Visit in Tahoe

We are here. We arrived last night. We left San Diego at around 6:30 am. Matt was barely awake (still recovering from the Crayfish party the night before). With three stops along Highway 395 (Victorville, Bishop, Minden), we made it home in 9 hours and 30 minutes (more or less). The weather was wonderful but drier than San Diego of course. I crashed on the couch after a short trip to the grocery store for some roast chicken. Matt went to bed after a quick early dinner and so did Nikita. I woke up at 10:00pm and went to bed.

This morning, we checked out our deck and cleaned a little after taking Niki to the beach. The view from my kitchen is now brighter, what with most of the trees in the backyard gone and reduced to firewood! They are all piled up along the hillside. Our own backyard was okay and looked better in my opinion although I admit I will miss a couple of trees. The front yard is a mess (weeds everywhere) we'll have to do gardening tomorrow when we are both more relaxed and acclimated. I had a terrible sinus headache all morning.

After sweeping pine needles off the deck, it looks cleaner now. The Canadian maple tree has been trimmed.



Piles of chopped down pine trees line the hillside at the back of the house. Plants are happy, they can now get sunshine! And maybe our snow will melt faster. Look at our new roof!



The water drainage built on the front of the house. Looks pretty with all those rocks and pebbles. But look at the weeds!!! We really need to do some serious gardening this week.