Of trips and life and home.

You know the feeling of coming home from a long trip and you're just inspired to organize and clean and love your house to bits? Well, that's me this week. We got home on Monday from visiting Bill & Penny in Quesnel and Jerry & Karen in Creston. In between we drove through Banff and Jasper and toured and camped (one night). Banff and Jasper were gorgeous, as always. But full!! Yikes, the 150 anniversary must have brought the crowds in. There were literally NO CAMPSITES left in the whole park of Banff for our second night so we toured on down to Radium instead.


Being with my sisters was the best. Each of their families really outdid themselves with taking care of us and having fun together. We LOVED it! A gigantic thanks, sistas.


And now home is home. My beans are ready to pick. I ran for groceries yesterday and took Wyatt to the eye doctor. Good news, all is well. He is a little more farsighted in one eye and that could be why he held one eye open on our trip, but he doesn't need glasses. So that's taken care of. And the days have just the tiniest hint of fall here. The crickets are chirping, the nights are colder, and the other day I heard geese flying over. Oh, my heart. I never like to let our lovely summers go...


And it's the season for company! I'm so excited that Tracy and Russ are planning on coming out this next weekend. And next week we're expecting Jeff & Deli and Wes & Kim! The very most unfortunate thing happened while we were gone. My lovely finally-finished guest room flooded. We came home to a horrendous stench in the house even though folks were trying to dry it out. We decided to rip out the carpet and hopefully dry it that way. It's improved vastly, but the whole thing does seem to pose a small issue on the company topic. We are just so very grateful it was not worse. (My soaker hose got left on in front of the house for five days. Eek.)


So, yes, the day is unfurling around me with sunlight dappling through willow and spruce. The sky is a promising clear blue with tiny white clouds above. I love our wide open prairies for the sky-scapes we get.


I'm off for some coffee and eggs.