I can’t believe how mild the winter has been so far. It almost makes me wish we hadn’t made plans to spend a week in Hurricane, Utah the end of the month. It was our idea to try out getting out of the winter weather when hubby finally, actually retires from farming.

We sold our farm in SE Oregon and bought a house in NE Oregon. There are usually harsher winters in the NE than the SE. We thought we’d take a short trip this year to see if we would like spending time in southern Utah to hike the areas there and in Northern Arizona to stay fit. If someone knows of the best trails to walk/hike in the Hurricane area, I’m all ears.

But so far, the weather isn’t making us want to go anywhere. We’ve only been below freezing a few days at a time. There’s been rain, but not much snow. Maybe by the end of the month when we are ready to go, we’ll be ready to get out of here.

Along with getting away from the weather, we have been back and forth between NE and SE Oregon, hauling our things to the new place and slowly getting moved in. I still have a room, two walls, and three closets to paint. I won’t do any more painting than that until we get the remodel finished, which won’t happen until next Fall, most likely.

But I have lots of stuff to put away, especially books! I ordered way too many this past year, thinking two of the events I attended would sell more than they did. So I have totes and boxes of books that will go on my new rolling bookcases when we get them finished. When they are finished, I’ll have photos of my new office on one of the posts.

I’m excited to have a huge window to set plants in front of. I might be able to keep some alive now that they will get some indirect lighting instead of shade.

I think the biggest thing I like about the move are the walking trails Nia and I can walk on every day, as well as the golf course nearby, and I’m going to take a yoga class. I feel like this move will keep me moving and fitter now that I no longer have to go down and feed horses and cattle every morning and break water for them in the cold winters.

I’ll have fun posting for you when we are in Hurricane, so stay tuned for that one. I’ll also be making a trip back to Deadwood, South Dakota in June. I’m attending the Wild Deadwood Reads event. I attended the first one in 2017 and then the second one. After that I didn’t make it back. This summer, since I’ll be in NE Oregon while hubby is still in SE Oregon helping the people who purchased our farm and staying on to show the person taking on his manager job for the farm next door, I will have a lot of free time on my hands and decided I wanted to do the Wild Deadwood Reads again. A friend is going with me, and we are going to have a blast! Here’s the info if you’re going to be in Deadwood July 13th for the PBR Rodeo.

It is a multi-author, multi-genre Book Fair in the The Lodge at Deadwood. It starts off at 8 am with breakfast with the authors. At 9:30 the ballroom opens and the authors are there visiting and selling books until 3 pm. Check it all out here: https://wilddeadwoodreads.com/

This is starting to look like a great year!