Wildfire

For family who are not in our area, just thought I'd provide a little information about what is going on south of here.  The mountain between Eagle Mountain and Saratoga Springs is on fire.  Many homes in the Saratoga Springs and Eagle Mountain 'ranches' area have been evacuated.  So far homes in City Center are okay.  It all sort of depends on which way the winds are blowing.  I did not take these pictures, but added them to show what the mountain looks like from the City Center area.  It would be pretty if it wasn't so dangerous.

This last picture is taken from the entrance to our daughter's subdivision.  Another daughter, some 15 miles from the fire reports ash falling at her place.  We could smell the smoke in the air last night clear up at our house.  This sure brought up a lot of memories of the Big Lake Fire which we experienced many years ago now.

Boxelder Burl Bowl

A year ago the woodworker was given a large burl from a local Box Elder tree.  He decided to turn it part way and then put it into the kiln to dry.  Recently he turned it the rest of the way to see what could be made of it.  Burls are interesting because the wood grain goes all different ways.  The woodworker likes bowls with oddities left in them as you can see in this one that he made.

Thank heaven for little girls

We recently did our annual girls weekend and invited along some special little girls  I do enjoy getting up in the morning to see these little faces!  They nicely went along with the making of fancy hairdos.