Pine on the Spur

Becky informed me that her mother-in-law would be out of town for a whole week, and that put their cabin in Pine up for grabs. So we jumped at the chance to take the kids for a last-minute/before school starts trip to the mountains. We had so much fun, and the weather was the perfect retreat from the heat! Mostly the kids played outside and roasted marshmallows on the never-ending fire (Elaine's sister was up there clearing the mountain behind the cabin, and burned the debris the whole time we were there).

Becky and I enjoyed ourselves relaxing, I with my book, and Becky worked on a very cute quilt. We had a good time reading, relaxing, sewing and eating. Becky had dubbed it the "sew and slim" retreat, I called it the "read and eat" week, I'm pretty sure there was no slimming going on. Although we did get some good mountain exercise in on our walks to the creek. We were so excited to find wild black berries growing near the creek, and had fun picking and eating them. That's as close to "living off the land" as I get.

It did rain quite a bit, but that only added to the good weather and ambiance. We took the kids one day in search of crystal treasure. Supposedly there is a place called diamond mountain (that sounds good, I'm really not sure what it was called) where there are lots of crystals in the dirt, but after a good rain they come to the surface easily. Well pretty much it was mostly desert, and rocks with a few dead animals here and there, but the kids had a great time, Jacob even found a few treasures. On Friday night Travis and Richard joined us, and I'll post more about that fun adventure on my own blog. So tune in to that, and thanks to Becky, and as Dallas said, "it was almost as much fun as Disneyland!"