Our Julian Adventure

The music man, kids and i took off this weekend to break in our "new to us" camping trailer. We went with some friends to the town of Julian in the mountains of San Diego County. This was the first time we've visited here and what a neat town it is.

I really love the twinkle lights. I 've had them for a while, just waiting in their boxes and have to say it was pretty great being able to finally break them out.

Julian is known for their apples and lucky us this month is their harvest season

 so we grabbed some apples before heading into town to do a little wine tasting and pick up a pie from the famous Julian Pie Company. Holy cow i have no words to describe how amazing the pumpkin apple caramel pie was since amazing doesn't even begin......

We did a little exploring, i taught a buddy to knit, sat and knit a few rows on my winters throw and

enjoyed a beautiful Fall drive. We had a really great time and are looking forward to all the adventures to come!

Holy Macaroni

Where the heck have i been? Apparently everywhere but here in the space. I didn't mean to be be away for so long.  For those who were wondering, everything is good, we are good, thank you for your sweet words.  Life just got crazy busy for me at work since the market is on fire and rates are so low,  i haven't had much free time.    Although we have lots of wonderful things happening i just haven't taken the time to stop and blog about them. Here's a quick synopsis of the last couple weeks in photos.

Our Monkey girl turned 20

 

I've knitted a few rows with this before the weather turned warm again. Jack is fully recovered from his surgery and back at the barn running around with Chance.

I've watched the music man get his groove on and

we sold our Havasu dirt mobile and bought this camper for new adventures. 

Happy Hump Day buddies, i hope you are having a great week thus far and that life is full and good for you as well. 

Hugs
Jen

some good stuff

Our weather finally broke and seems to be moving towards what the calender says...that's summer over.  Jack got his stitches out, work is busy and my yarn order arrived. Lots of good stuff indeed.

Monkey, Em and I spent a day some girl time in San Diego County.

We started our day with lunch in Little Italy and enjoyed the most amazing Strawberry Napoleon for dessert, seriously amazing. The best custard i have ever had. So good  I'm drooling now just thinking about it. So so delicious.

afterwards with very full bellies we drove over to the bay for some exercise and

finished up our play day in La jolla for sunset were i got to play with my new lens.

I do love Saturday mornings

Taking a break and finishing my morning coffee with Jack at my side. He is doing so great, stitches come out Tuesday and he even joined me at the barn today and ran around with Chance.  I sure do love Saturdays mornings for i don't need to punch a time clock today. The relaxed and slow vibe let's me enjoy my chores and time outside on "my time" and of course i love that i get to do it all with my 24/7 shadow next to me.

How bout those cow folk

Life has been a whirlwind lately and i have so much to share with you. Due to the volume of photos and adventures lately i'll be breaking it up into a couple posts, okay.

Here are a few photos of a sorting event i shot over the weekend. Ohhhh how i love to shoot these moo cows in action...

Jack is doing great, my yarn should be hereany day now and finally our nights are cooling. Be back soon with more photos. i picked up a new lens for landscape shots and have spent some more time back at the beach at sunset.

an update on Jack

 

Dr. said Jack did great and that he got all of the tumor. YES! As you can see here he is resting and quiet while enjoying lots of snuggles as his body heals. I have no doubt he'll be running around again soon. I wanted to thank everyone for all the doggie get well wishes, i appreciate them and you so much.

A quick drop in...

My sweet brown dog aka John Wayne (he's bow legged) and Mr. Lumpies has had a rough week. I noticed over the last couple of weeks his coat and stamina had been changing so off for a check up we went.   I know It's common for big dogs to get lots of lumpies (benign fatty tumor's) of which he has a lot but a new one that recently  popped up was different...

So the good news is his heart , lungs, lymph nodes blood work and bones are all very good. His coat and stamina changes are because of he is a slightly hypo thyroid which is also very common in doggies his age.  He will be having surgery to remove the newest lumpie as it tested positive for cancer tomorrow. Fingers crossed it is a non aggressive one that will not spread, biopsy will tell more but we are hopeful as all of his testing are good and the statics of this kind of cancer is common and not known to be metastatic.

I'll be back tomorrow with an update on Jack as well as photo's.... We are harvesting tonight, woot woot! Super exciting stuff!!!!

looking forward

What to do when the heat is stuck on super duper HOT and the monsoonal moisture lingers? Drive back to beach for a ride and to enjoy some cool ocean air.

During our visit and bike ride i found out that Lulus basket liner needs a little adjustment. When the wind from riding around hits the basket, the liner on the front part of the basket blows up so I've sewn a casing around the top and think tying a string tightly should do the trick. Next time we make the trip back to the beach I'll try it out. Otherwise,  I'll have to ad a couple more inches of the polka dot fabric so it lays over the top further down.

Football season has started, my team is 1 -0 woot woot... I hope a sign of things to come. Lets go Chargers!

I've decided on my Fall knitting project and have ordered my yarn (we don't have a fiber store in town) I am excited to cast on and get started on a big cushy warm blanket for the couch.   I am looking forward to and dreaming about the cold nights of winter, i think my family is too since I've been a cranky monster lately with little patience.  This humid hot weather has me sweating all the flipping time so i suppose it a bit funny to chose a blanket huh.

Oh yeah everyday that passes brings us closer to cooler days.  I love everything about Fall, here's just a few. Choosing which seeds to plant for the winter garden, cool nights, warm days, knitting in the evenings and holiday where we all celebrate the blessings in our every days, yep can't get to the end of the month fast enough for me.

How about you guys, are you over the summers heat too and whats your favorite things about Fall?

a little sewing project

Believe me i am as surprised as you are that i actually sat down at my sewing machine for a project.  I'm feeling a bit crafty now that Fall is in sight. Football, cooler nights, fingers crossed cooler days soon, knitting needles and soups, oh yeah super ready to move past these hot days of summer.  

Okay so back to my sewing machine. Monkey and i went to the hobby store in town last weekend and they had some cute fabrics on sale and i knew exactly what i was going to make to get back in the sewing groove... A liner for Lulu's basket. I dusted off my machine, made a pattern and

 BAM almost instant gratification and it felt really great to be crafty again. I was even thinking about what big knitting project i would take on while watching football last night, life is so good!

 

Once In A Blue Moon

Yesterday's full moon was one of those rare blue moons that "coincidentally" occurred the same day Neil Armstrong's family laid him to rest.  How incredible was that! The first person to step foot on the moon in 1969, passes away and his services were on the same day of a rare blue moon. Amazing, i think.

I've been told the moon's cycle is 29 days or so and because of that we get a full moon once a month. A Blue Moon actually doesn't have anything to do with being blue in color but named after the saying...Once in a blue moon.  Blue Moons occurs once every three years and when it happens we get two full moons in the month.

I know there hasn't been much talk of the garden or grapes lately but everything is growing really well around here.  The grape harvest is approaching and everyone in valley is looking at bumper crops, very exciting stuff.

I am though, totally over the heat and ready for fall. Enough of these 100 + temps ugh.