Quiet Day

Good morning, my friends. Except for grocery shopping, it was a stay-at-home-and-be-lazy kind of day. Before anything could happen, though, I needed to spend some time with my slow-stitching. I took the first stitches for Block #6.

From there, we headed out. Our list was relatively short, and so we were home before lunch time. After lunch and naps, I baked a Skillet Cherry Cobbler for Two. This is made from cherries from our trees, canned in simple syrup a couple of years ago.

Later in the day, we decided to make our way over to the winery associated with the RV park, Charleston Peak Winery. 

We'd heard it was possible to get a glass of wine and "snacks," but we weren't sure how that worked. And so we headed over to get the lay of the land, so to speak. They have light meals and charcuterie boards. Along the way, I took pictures of every blooming thing in their flower pots. These flowers I'm about to show you were all tiny...about the size of a nickel.

My phone tells me this is a Flaming Katy.

This is a Madagascar Periwinkle.

This one is a Texas Barometer Bush. 

And this one is an African Daisy, or Dimorphotheca ecklonis, if you want to get all technical about it.

Okay, and if you traveled with us to Alaska, you might remember the candy store we visited in Anchorage, Aurora Chocolates. They had all kinds of fancy chocolates...real works of art, inspired by the Northern Lights.

Well, the winery has some little gift boxes that reminded us of those. We might have to get some of these, but we resisted for this visit.

We wandered around a little bit, taking note of all the wine barrels in the employees-only section.

So, we've decided to head over there this evening for some wine and something else. (I'm leaning toward charcuterie, which I love.)

Back at the RV, we took advantage of our new wide-open spaces. We're at the end of a row, and the four spaces between us and the next RV are open. Feeling brave, Smitty consented to a walk lasting approximately three minutes. We saw a dog, and that put us off.

Open the door, wouldja, Sadie? I'll share my treats of valor with you.

And that was pretty much our whole afternoon. We enjoyed our cobbler with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and called it a day.

There isn't much on today's agenda. I'm thinking about doing some more sewing. Or maybe doing some more walking. I haven't made any decisions yet. We have four more days here in Pahrump before we move on to Death Valley National Park. Yesterday, I took a look at the roads between here and home. An awful lot of snow has fallen in the Eastern Sierras. We were hoping to go home that way since we're told it's a good place to see wildflowers. That's still about ten days off, however, and so maybe conditions will improve. If not, we can always head that way through Nevada. Time and weather will tell.

And speaking of weather, I hope y'all have survived the blizzard back east. Stay safe, warm, and dry, my friends.