May 12, 2019 Mothers Day

Instant Pot Poached eggs over Avocado Toast.

Mothers Day Flowers

Clean Pond

March 25. 2019
Pond is clean again. For the next 48 hours anyway.  The Koi are happy.

Wrench

Saturday February 23 the repair guy showed up 10 minutes after the "schedule window" to fix the washing machine. Fussed with it for awhile and installed the new internal hose. He started it up, was satisfied the leak was taken care of and left. What followed was the worst clanging and pinging I've ever heard from that washer.
Monday the new repair guy showed up and actually pulled a wrench out of the machine. Went through a load okay. Excited to see what the weekend laundry brings.
So it really was a wrench in the machine.

February 26 2019

The day after the big storm, Sierra, her friends and roommates left to drive to Disneyland for a long planned trip. The road closures after the storm was over but the roads were still icy. The car hit an icy patch and slid into a snowbank. They pushed it out and decided to put snow chains on. Another car hit the icy patch sending a car into their car. Sierra was knocked down, but other than neck and back pain was mostly okay. One roommate went under a truck, another one was injured. All told everyone was amazing intact and not killed. They were extremely lucky. The car was totaled, and other than some stitches, bruises and cuts, they got through it.

Big Snow Storm in Flagstaff

February 21, 2019. Record snowfall for Flagstaff. 37 - 40 inches in one day. This is the parking lot in front of Sierras Apartment. The short lump of snow is the Smart Car.

A quick visit Feb. 15

Sierra came down to put in some time at the dealership, and to visit.
Quick, but nice visit.

Garden Fresh Pasta Sauce

It may be mid February, but we still have some survivors in the garden. I picked a bunch of San Marzano tomatoes and pulled some purple carrots.

Into the Instant Pot and less than a hour later I had fresh pasta sauce. The recipe is in the receipe section.