In Real Life

We have arrived at our new home for the next six weeks.  It was a long trip.  Only 700 actual miles but it seemed more than 1700.  Wasn't sure we were ever going to get here. Pretty sure we will be flying the next time we come this way.  Once we got out of the Los Angeles area though it was new territory for us.  When we traveled north before we would always go up the coast, this time we went inland.  Some real whoop de doos and switchbacks and we didn't even have to buy a ticket. Wouldn't want to travel the route on a full stomach.  Beautiful though.

We're in Monterey County, on the El Camino Real, settled in a valley among tons of awesome rock formations, giant boulders, eucalyptus trees and blue skies. Breathtaking.

Daughter, Son in Law and grandkids are fantastic and it will be the longest stretch of time we have spent together since she went away to college umpteen years ago. Looking forward to great times visiting old haunts and creating new memories.  Tomorrow is grandson's football game and Friday is SIL's schools homecoming football game and Saturday, other grandsons soccer game and so it goes.

Weather is perfect, warm sunny days and cool mornings and evenings.  Daughter lives in an area that is fraught with apple orchards. The sweet scent of apples, the acrid smell of a wood burning fire and the skittering of fallen leaves tells me that fall is definitely here and I am loving every minute of it. 

We have been pretty vanilla lately, just a few little spankings here and there. We've played the dice game a couple of times - that's fun.   My birthday is coming up so I know there will be lots of fireworks then.  

Along with the pretty new colors on my blog I have added a new gadget.  With Hermione's help my fiction is now in its own place.  I have been writing pretty regularly and getting some nice feedback so for a while I will post a new story every Monday.  When the well dries up I'll do something else but I think I'm good until the end of the year anyway.  

The internet is working fine.  No television though (not that I miss it - did get to watch my Denver Broncos finally come out of the fog Monday night )  and can only text in the RV.  Phone conversations are relegated to the outdoors. It's almost like the dark ages. Other than that can't think of anything else right now.

See you later for more Aimless Ramblings.