Cool!

Literally! Our weather has cooled down here and we had our first rain today since May 24th. Not a heavy rain, by any means, but a nice, light, off-and-on sprinkle. We should get a bit more through the night and into the day Saturday, but the skies will clear by Sunday. I wish I could say our temps will stay cool, but I just watched the weather forecast on the news, and we'll be back up into the 80s all of next week. Still, I'm truly enjoying this little bit of rain while it lasts.

The other thing that's really cool here is that Hubby and I are now officially on vacation! His started when he got off work Thursday, because he had Friday off to watch the termite guy do his thing around our house, but I had to wait until this evening for my vacation to begin. We're both off now until the day after Columbus Day--whatever day that is. I'm not going to even THINK about it for the time being.

Originally we planned to spend our vacation in Oregon. We were even--very kindly--offered the use of a house on the coast. We had a couple other places we wanted to visit, and when I started making reservations and thinking about what we planned to do, I realized we could do all the same things HERE for a lot less money. Well, except sit on a deck and watch the ocean. Yeah, we can't do that here. Still, with the economy the way it is, I had to wonder whether going away made sense, and after talking it over with Hubby last week, we decided to stay home and take day trips from here.

And, having made the decision to stay home and spend a little less money, what did we discover but the darn termites! It's always something, isn't it?!

Still, I told Hubby tonight that I'm darn happy to NOT be spending the evening packing our luggage and thinking about getting up early in the morning to get on the road and drive. Especially not through all that rain. Nope! Tomorrow, instead, we'll spend a relaxing day puttering around with our various crafts and probably rent a movie or two to watch. Dinner? Who knows? Maybe we'll go out. Or not. We're on vacation, so we can do whatever we feel like doing.

Blogging? Yep, I suspect I'll keep up the regular blogging, but if I miss a day or if I don't post at my "normal" time, it probably just means I'm too busy having fun to write. But I do have a couple things tentatively planned. A little giveaway at some point and quite possibly the tutorial on that other quilt I've been teasing you with, the Scrappy Thimbleberries Star quilt in my sidebar. I really want to make some pillow shams to go with the quilt, so that will be a good opportunity to show you how to make the blocks.

And maybe I'll have a few stories and photos to share of whatever we end up doing during our vacation. So come on back and check in on me--I enjoy your visits!