Author Archives: youngholm

Soren and Arlin got the “Noise in my Head” quilt hung in the kitchen in the big house. Sent from my iPad

June 4th and the pool is open. Sent from my iPad

This year’s Sierra Mountain Quilter’s show was this past weekend. Of course I have to share my two submissions with you. This one is called “Free Floating”. And this one is called “The Noise in My Head”.

He helps with both the dishes and the gardening

Spring is full blown and so is allergy season. Wisteria has taken over the pergola. The iris are showing up strong after the winter rain. Blossoms and more blossoms. Even the lilac has finally decided to share itself with us. … Continue reading →

We’ve had another couple of days of wild, wild weather. On Valentine’s Day we had hail (again) and thunder. At one point the rain was coming down at a rate of almost 5 inches an hour. Luckily that only lasted … Continue reading →

The last couple of days have seen the wildest weather ever: thunder and lightning; rain, sleet and hail. I was waiting for frogs and locusts. And this morning we woke to a winter wonderland.

Snow started ten minutes ago (about 7:10 am). We paid for this with two extended power outages between 7:00 pm Sunday and 9:00 pm Monday.

It started as hail, then turned to sleet. It’s been going on for half an hour now.