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What Difference a Month makes!

So again I'm late! These photos were uploaded last Friday, 4/23/2010, and I haven't been able to get back to them until today.

Like the title says, what a difference a month can make! As I'd planned, I took photos last month with the idea of taking from almost the same place to show the "greening" of our area as more spring weather arrives. So these photos are the before and after kind of photos.

Top two photos, top one from March second from April, show the trees of our property at the left of the photo. The field in the shot is already growing its first cut of this years alfalfa with a small group of Canadian Geese that have started to be in this field in the mornings. You can also see how our days are getting longer fast too! All these photos were taken at almost the exact same hour of the morning, about 7:40 am, and you can really see how much less shadows are in the April shots. We're already getting light by 4:30 am now and by June it will be around 3:00 am with it staying light until after 10:00 pm at night.
















The next two photos are of a much larger alfalfa field exactly 180 degrees from the top photos. It was a more wintry day in March and a glorious April day in the bottom photo.








Other things going on are mainly all work related right now. Stacy will be the department head as of Saturday and next week she'll start making the office her own. Today (4/27) Stacy and the boss for the next 3 days, had to go to Coeur d' Alene for some meetings. The other person that works with us, Carol, is back at work as of yesterday from her 3 weeks off for her husbands heart surgery. So things are getting more back to normal, but next week Stacy will need to set up for interviews and get her replacement hired and on the training road as soon as possible. There has been either 4 or 5 people apply so far and it closes for applications on Friday. The job required bachelor degree is keeping many away we think.

Last Wednesday (4/21) Stacy had set up a retirement luncheon for Jackie. It went very well, people came up from up to 4 hours away for a long lunch to honor Jackie and her almost 20 years of service. Just about everybody from here thought it was a great party and complimented Stacy for such a great party. I was surprised since it was, I felt, just a lunch. But for our court house staff, it was a party. We were very glad it went over so well. I was proud that Stacy had gotten such great kudos. And Stacy really appreciated the help and suggestions that Darrel's wife Connie had given her when Stacy was panicking a bit over how to do it all!
It was a success!

Although I haven't talked to our daughter, Sandy was at the recent music festival in the Palm Springs area of Coachella. Since I knew she was going I read about it. All I can say better she than me! I can't think of anyplace I'd want to be with 75,000 of my "friends". Even events we've been to with a fraction of that amount of people, but still crowded, and I didn't love it then either!
I know Sandy likes to go because the event has had a special meaning for her and her husband in the past. So we hope she had a better time than what I read about it from other peoples reports!

Hopefully I can get back on my schedule of actual weekly posts soon!








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