GETTING READY FOR THE TREK SOUTH

We’re at the final countdown stage now, only 3 days and 4 more sleeps until we start on the journey.  This year, we’re planning to take a different route by going east on Interstate-90 from Spokane and then taking Interstate 15 south from Missoula, Montana through Salt Lake City and then down through western Utah and Las Vegas.  We considered going through eastern Utah or along the north side of the Grand Canyon but it’s all higher elevation and the night time temperatures are traditionally well below freezing.  We prefer to get to the warm places (our home free zone) as quickly as possible.

The garden is all finished now except for a few carrots that we’ll dig up just before we leave and we haven’t picked the Brussels Sprouts yet.  They are still quite small but we’ll have enough for one meal anyway.  Stuart tilled the garden last week and we've been steadily winterizing equipment and putting it away.  The boat is in the shop and all the deck furniture is in the garage.  Kind of sad to see the empty spaces.  I still have 4 red geraniums in full bloom in their pots and I hate to have to “kill” them in a few days.  I’d love to take them south with us but they won’t let us take them across the border.

When the weather changed to cloudy and cooler, we burned our scrap pile and had a wiener roast.  It was great fun—can’t remember the last time we roasted wieners.

The deciduous trees started changing colour a week ago and now they are losing their leaves.  Our new elm trees look nice with their yellow foliage.

Next post should be from somewhere in the USA.