Lazy Woman Musings

At this moment, I am completely void of any resemblance of ambition.  Not that I don't have my plans...but today they will not be done.  Or thought about.  I wish to escape to a beach, sit in the sun watch the sunset and listen to the calming sound of the waves beating up the sand.  But instead, here I am looking at the blue sky outside my window and writing about my lazy ways.

Our pornography talks went fine, I think.  Our singing series is over, with our last performance presented on Friday night.  Here is the singing gang, except for me.  I took the picture!

We have enjoyed a week's visit from our Cedaredge, Colorado friends, Steve and Sharon Palmer.  They are a sweet-spirited, country couple, formally embraced by my parents when they lived in Cedaredge. That is where our friendship began.  We showed them some of the Boise sights, including the Shoshone Falls, located in Twin Falls.  With all the surplus water Idaho has this year, the falls were rumored to be quite amazing.  So we made the two plus hour drive to see them.  As we entered Twin Falls, there seemed to be no possible location for a water fall.  The land was flat as far as eye could see, except in the far distance.  The Google Girl directions took us through Twin Falls and to a road that led us into a deep ravine.  At the bottom, the Snake River wound its way through the land and, as it tripped over various mounds of rocks it offered us...waterfalls.  Beautiful, multiple, falls.  It was a beautiful cascade of falls that ran over and around cliffs of rocks and, as enormous amounts of water fell to the river below, a mist filled the air that reached up to us as we stood at an observation point.  The mist held a bright rainbow perpetually within it.  Birds swooped through the mist.  It was a wonder to see.

I've never tried this before, but here is an effort to insert a short video of the Falls.

Here I am at the lookout, followed by Layne and Steve, on a path along the Snake River, just down from the Falls.

Shoshone Falls was pretty impressive but we went to other fun other places too, including our favorite Huckleberry ice cream place by the Payette River.  The time with Steve and Sharon passed quickly and they were gone by Monday morning, after a week of good times together.

I suppose part of the reason why I'm feeling like doing absolutely nothing at the moment is that...I'm tired!  It has been an activity-filled few weeks for us.  This week promised to be much more relaxing, but so far it too has been busy.  I found myself seeking out a Humanitarian experience with a local friend, teaching English to some of the many refugees that have settled here.  We haven't actually done that yet, but the commitment has now been made.  Tomorrow is another pornography talk, this time to a Relief Society.  The list of things to do seems to go on and on.  But for now I'm not listening.  Much.  I think I'll just concentrate on rainbows.  This one showed up in our back yard a couple of days ago.  Check out that empty square of flagstone by the swings.  Wouldn't that be a good place for a gazebo?