Back to the Grind

It's the final day of what seems like a never ending vacation. Susan went back to work for two days and I did half a day on Friday but it still seems like we have not been involved in the creation of productive pursuits for a while. And in fact, it has been two weeks.

We drove out to the Little Spokane River today and did a very short paddle. It turns out that we are not in shape for a long paddle. Whew! It was brutal. It's a good thing we had beer with us.

We have been doing a bunch of straightening up around the house and removing Christmas decoration...which is a chore unto itself. So it was nice to go out to the river and commune with nature. We also communed with 17 turkeys that were walking around out there. 

They were a rather vocal bunch. They did not seem interested in our chocolate chips that we brought for the peacocks.

New Years Eve was uneventful as we went to a friends house for a little while and then made it back home by eleven. We opened a bottle of champagne and listened to the fireworks going off all around us from the front porch.

I did some wine work yesterday. I racked the tempernillo into a clean carbouy and then added some medium toast oak wood chips to add a medium toast oaky woodeness to the wine. The sour after taste that we have experienced is fading.

So now it is time to continue ion with life and make something of ourselves. Carpe Diem!