Friends visited us for the long weekend

Bob returned safely from his trip to Florida on February 12th. His only hitch was that his flight left from Orlando about 2 hours late. He arrived in Seattle about 7 P.M. The day he arrived I drove over the passes in the morning and had lunch with two prior co-workers from the bank where I used to work. I then drove to another prior co-workers home in Bellevue where we had a good couple hour visit. After picking up Bob we drove to Everett and spent the night in the Navy Lodge. The next morning we took granddaughter, Nichole, and a friend out for breakfast. We picked up our prescriptions, did some shopping at the commissary and BX and then headed over the pass back to Wenatchee.

Friday evening our friends, Paul and Carol, arrived for a visit. After breakfast on Saturday, we headed up to Mission Ridge to snowshoe. Unfortunately, my snowshoe broke on the trip, but the snow was pretty compact, so getting back to the trailhead wasn't too bad. Sunday we drove up the Entiat river for another snowshoe (see the pictures) and Monday we climbed Saddlerock. It was really a muddy sloppy mess on that trail. Paul and Carol headed for home and we collapsed into the hot tub. That evening we went square dancing.

Over the weekend we noticed that our fifth wheel was sinking into the mud. When we moved into the house we tried to have some gravel put down, but the person who was going to do it never came out. He was going to move some of the dirt and then put down the gravel. But the ground froze before he could do it. We put the trailer on some cement block and it was fine all winter. But just recently the block that were under the front landing jacks broke and those jacks sunk about 8 inches into the mud. Bob wasn't sure how he was going to get the trailer out of there. Fortunately the dirt has started to firm up - it's clay so gets hard as a rock. He was able to back the truck up and hitch it up and raise the landing jacks. We still haven't moved the fifth wheel, but at least it's not sunk into the mud. We're planning a trip this spring, probably leaving on March 20th, so we need to have our fifth wheel operational.

My mom who lives in Arizona celebrated her 85th birthday with a surprise birthday party given by my dad. They had pizza and birthday cake. She has bronchitis so wasn't feeling too well. We hope she gets better soon!