Blossom

What is a sleeping pig doing on my blog you might ask yourself? Well, this is a special pig. Her name is Blossom and we found her wandering in our yard last year when she was just a baby. Someone had picked her up, maybe for dinner, and she managed to escape. Only to find herself in a yard with inquisitive dogs who went crazy upon seeing her. So we quickly locked them up and then went about catching the piglet. Then the phonecalls! What to do? Until I remembered seeing a group of nice young girls at our Farmer's Market, asking for donations for Farm Sanctuary in Orland, CA. Managed to find their number, made the call and they told us bring her in. And today we got to visit her for the first time since she's grown up. Well, nearly, evidently she still has some growing to do. We found her snoozing away, after having spend the morning playing with her piggy friends who share a big, cozy barn with her. They even have a nice pond at the bottom of their enclosure. These lucky farm animals will never find their way onto anyone's dinner plate. Instead they get to live out their lives, being taken care of with lots of TLC. What a happy ending!!

Tehama Sunset

On the day we drove up to Mt. Shasta, we came home fairly late. So as we headed out of Red Bluff, into the open country side homeward bound, the sun started sinking into the hazy cloudcover, getting ready to disappear behind the coastal range.

Though my little camera isn't much, still a few of the pics, which I took hanging out the truck window, came out pretty nice. So thought I would share them here. It was a perfect ending to a wonderful day.

Mt. Shasta in June

Last week we headed up to the little town of Mt. Shasta. Wandered the New Age shops, ate lunch, sipped cappuccino in the book store. In other words, had a great time. Before heading home we decided to get a little closer to the glistening snow that blankets the great mountain. So got directions at the local tea shop and off we went, up the mountain. Finally had to stop at a little over 6000' as the road was closed at that point. The air was crisp and cool, about 20* cooler then in Shasta town. Blazing sunshine made the snow glisten and a good time was had by all. We had our granddaughter Ashlee along, who got a short reprieve from work to join us for nearly 2 weeks. This was our last outing with her before she had to head back home. Plus took along our Tai Chi buddy Jeanie. Of course before long Grandpa and Ashlee were lopping snowballs. :) It was a wonderful daytrip all the way around.