I've got to get to town!

Cabin fever has set in. I'm counting the days till the road will be all plowed and I can get out of here for awhile.

In the mean time I'm baking and cooking way to much. I made wheat bread on Thursday and will need to make more by this Wed or Thur. I also made chocolate chip cookies on Thursday. Today I made a blueberry pie, to use them up. I ended up with one 9" pie and two 4" pies and of course I had to make cinnamon rolls too with the left over dough. I've kept the 9" pie and some cinnomon rolls but gave the rest away. The other people here need to be gaining weight too. (See I'm trying to use up as much as I can of my winter stock since I won't be cooking this summer and I don't really have any place to store much.) I'm just going to have to start walking to take care of all these extra calories! Ya right.........

Yesterday I made home baked beans and still have lots of them left over. Today I thought of making macaroni & cheese with a pork tenderlion for supper.

The guy that was working in the retail warehouse last year was coming back to be my assistant, but Friday I got an email saying he's not coming back. Now I will have to train 2 people instead of one to help me. Come April 1st. I'm going to the warehouse and start doing things-paid or not, I need to get away from food! And there is alot of stuff to do down there so I might as well get started and get myself acquainted before I try to train someone else where things will go. Besides I want to be able to make a shopping list for the warehouse so in 8 days when the road is all plowed (hopefully) I can get some supplies to get me started.

The winds is really blowing hard tonight. Gary says he saw snowflakes too.

Well not much has changed since my last post.

It has snowed a couple of times, as it is today also. But the snow has melted away just as quick as it came. Looks very pretty while it's snowing but......I've had enough. Either it needs to snow a couple of feet or just stop all together! Five more days until the state is to start plowing Rt. 67 so we can drive out of here. I can't wait-I need a fresh salad and some ice cream!!

I've started going through the freezer to see what is left...to much. But that is good so I can do better next winter on figuring what we need. Today I'm making wheat bread again and garlic butter. Think I will make some cookies too while I have the oven on.

I've used the pressure cooker and I love it. Finally we can have baked beans that are almost as good as Moms. I cooked some beef stew meat the other day too for stroganoff. The meat was so tender. I would love to make some beef stew today in the pressure cooker but I've run out of potatoes so I'm still debating with myself to make it using noodles. The more I think about it the more I think I'm going to make it.

I surprised Gary on Tuesday. It was 52nd birthday and I made Red Velvet Cake for him like I always do. It came out almost perfect! (I'm getting this high altitude down pat now!) It calls for buttermilk and he knew I didn't have any so he was not expecting his favorite cake, but ...I have powdered buttermilk! We had supper next door and all 6 of us enjoyed a nice evening together.

Well that's it for now, back to the kitchen.

:(

Sad, sad day :(

We just found out that we can not make our trip to Salt Lake City on Thursday. There just is not enough snow left for a safe ride out and back. To many of the Park Service employees have already ruined their snowmobiles this last week for us to chance ruining 2 of ours. But Kristal will be going with her family and I'm sure Chris will take lots of pictures for us.

Only 3 more weeks and the road will be plowed then we will be able to go to town. Maybe we will take a trip up to Salt Lake City then, who knows.

Monday, Monday!

Another Monday and another exceptionally sunny, beautiful day! And alot more bare ground showing.


Notice the coyote just in front of the tree? He comes around every day.

Our 6 working snowmobiles. It seems like alot of snow doesn't it?

But.....

I'm getting more excited about Thursday getting here. It will be our first trip off the Rim this winter! With so little snow I'm not so sure about going by snowmobiles, but we have no choice. We don't use the snowmobiles to go to work every day any more but the road out (48 miles) has not been plowed so we will have to go by snowmobiles. We've been told we will have some farly large areas that we will have to cross with no snow so to keep an eye on the temperature of the machines and take plenty of rest stops for the machines to cool off. And.... go as fast as possible on the bare ground!

So what am I going to do today??? I'm not going to work again for lack of things for me to do..but that's OK cause I have plenty to do here at home. Got to clean the apartment real good and start looking at what and how I'm going to pack for Thursday. We have a large shopping list that includes clothing so I've been thinking we really won't have to take much with us. With the positions that we have for the summer season I don't know when we will have another chance to go out and get our uniforms and such, so we might as well get all that stuff this trip out. We can leave most of it in the truck until the road gets plowed and we have a chance to go get our RV.

Saturday I made bread from scratch and it came out GREAT. I should have been doing it all winter instead of using the bread machine. Well at least I know for next winter that I can make it all winter long. The wheat bread actually came out better than the white!

Well time to get to work on packing!

Have a great week :D

It finally snowed again today but.......it was not much and it all melted on the bare pavement. Did make everything pretty white again for awhile :)

I made bread from scratch the other day and it came out really good. Doughnuts came out really good this morning too. I think I'm getting this high altitude baking down.

I haven't worked much this last 2 weeks. Mike is having a hard time finding enough work for both Tanya and I so I volunteered to stay home so she could get her hours to keep her insurance. This next week I might be able to work making some shelves to go in the Retail Warehouse that I will be managing this summer. I don't mind staying home but it is a bit boring. At least I will be able to get to know Trish better.

I got some good photos of the coyote that comes to see us every day. We haven't seen the foxes later though.