Mountain Man is OFF the Mountain!

One STUFFED Hyundai Santa Fe and two LARGE suitcases later, Russ (and all his STUFF) is home. I flew back with the 2 suitcases full on Friday evening. He drove from Mt Rainier to Portland Friday afternoon and spent the night at my mother's and then made the long drive back to Sacramento on Saturday. Saturday night when he got home, he didn't even get to come into the house, we were off to our friend Leslie's birthday party! I unloaded his car yesterday and started LAUNDRY. NINE LOADS OF LAUNDRY is what that man brought home! I did 3 loads yesterday and 2 so far today. Maybe I'll be done before he leaves for Guam.......

Which, by the way, will be Saturday morning. He flies out the 17th of February and gets back on the 17th of March. Coming back, he has an overnight layover in Honolulu.... lucky dog..... Fortunately, wherever they have him staying is supplying linens, so that's a huge amount of packing that we don't have to do. They also have standard 110 power, so no converters are needed. All we are scrambling to do now is to get him clothes for the warm and humid climate. (Having just finished supplying him with clothes, shoes and accessories for the frozen north..... Grrrrrrr) Oh well! Oh, and when I say "we" referring to packing and getting him ready, I mean *ME*... he he he.... I also have to find where I put his passport.... It was somewhere "safe" which means it may never see the light of day again.... I'm bad about that....

We've had almost 3 inches of BADLY NEEDED rain in the past 5 days with a little more to come over the next 3. The temperatures are mild and my plants are in HEAVEN! The roses all have started budding (one even has new leaves!), my primroses and pansies are BEAUTIFUL and my mini irises are up! It looks like Spring in the front yard, anyway.... we won't discuss what the back yard looks like.... I need to move some of those primrose pots out back.... it's ugly back there!

Well, that's all the fun that's fit to print around here. I'm hoping to do a little stamping this week between bouts of laundry and packing insanity. We'll see what happens......