Laurie and I returned home from our last summer vacation a week ago Sunday. I've held off posting due to a combination of things, I've not been feeling well (I have costrochondritis) and the camera died up at the cabin on our trip and we've been searching for the charger since we got home and finally found it two days ago, but when I went to upload the pictures on the camera, we realized that the card reader was MIA as well, so it took some time to find that, too. So now I can post! - with pictures!
Laurie and I headed up to her family's cabin for practically the whole month of July. It was beautiful up there and we had a lot of fun doing some outdoor activities. We thoroughly enjoyed the brand new deck on the cabin. I was able to sit out in the shade in the afternoon in the cool weather spinning for the Tour de Fleece. We kept the bunnies out on the deck in their pen during the day and in the car, safe and sound from animals, during the night. Bennett had a fabulous time with the deck. Supervised, he had endless fun dashing around the furniture and hopping up and down on chairs and leaning off the balcony as far as he could stretch his little head. There were lots of binkies. :) Ella was a little wary of the deck and definitely didn't think it was as fun as Bennett did. On our trip, we discovered they both had fur mites again but there was not a bunny vet to be found up in the Sierras, so we held our breath that neither of them would get too bad and waited until we got home. I actually had the medication at home, but needed the proper dosing instructions for each of them. Bennett's mites were healing on their own, but Ella is not looking that great right now. We actually have a vet visit scheduled for today for Ella because she seems to be having incontinence issues and is urinating just about anywhere. We think that she might have a bladder infection because she doesn't seem to have control to hold her bladder, she just goes when it strikes her. This really became apparent a few days ago when I was petting her in my lap and she peed all over me, which is something she has never done before. She's always politely nipped before to indicate that she needed to be put down to use the litter box. The inside of her pen is just soaked with urine. We'll see what they say at the vet's later today.
While we were up at the cabin, we drove about an hour or so to some hot springs. This particular hot springs is run but a state park and they pump the water into pools. There is one hot pool and one cool pool, and they both have accessible lifts to get into the water. We spent an afternoon there, I absolutely loved bobbing around in the water in my life jacket (even though I surely looked like a dork :-P). It was really relaxing and the water was cool on a hot day. We also took a day trip into a little town near the cabin called Murphys. We went wine tasting and bought some yummy wine and then we went to the local yarn store. The store was more of a cross between a yarn store and a stationary/book store, but it was very nice and the owner was extremely friendly. I bought some yummy cashmere yarn that will be in the next post, and a very cute book called Woolbur, which features a really cute free spirited little sheep who wants to shear, card, spin, dye and weave differently from the herd. We also bought some little books for Laurie's nephews.
Perfectly timed with our departure, Laurie's sister gave birth to her 3rd child, another little boy, named Dominic David. We got to see him in the hospital and spend a short amount of time with him the night he came home. It was a treat to be able to see him and hold him and coo over him before we had to leave for home. Laurie is hoping to go back to CA in September, and I know that she is looking forward to seeing baby Dominic again (and the two other boys!).
I have another post planned for the crafty stuff that I have planned but I think that will happen later as it's lunch time!
Here are some pictures of the bunnies enjoying their vacation on the deck:
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