A Beautiful Day up to an Oasis

Sunday happened to be such a beautiful day. After church, I found myself to have nothing going on and antsy to be relaxing outside. I had a thought to take a walk/hike up to Malan's Basin to go look at the waterfall. It's been a while since I have been up there, well during the non-winter months. I haven't been up there in the summer for about 3 years. I do go up there every winter to ice climb. I didn't want to fly completely solo on this, so I called Kev and Liv to see if I could take out the darling and adorable Maddie.

She's my babe. I was lucky enough to get an approval. It was nice and relaxing to get up in the canyon and be in the trees with a stream to the south of you. The rush of the water over the rocks was calming and soothing to me. I enjoyed myself and the company of Maddie. She did struggle a little when she had to work her way through larger rocks due to having a leash on. I would just give her a "come one babe," and she'd bound up the rock and pass me by.

As I got up to the waterfall, I went a little higher than the others gathered there to find a little sanctuary all for myself. As I peered up I wished for the water to be still and frozen. I just wanted to climb. But it was good to see nature at work, to see the cycle of things, and to remember the first time I had been up there.

All and all, it was a good day.

The approach view.


























The good view.


























Top Section.




















A view of Ogden from my secluded spot.

A Day with Kev, Liv, and Maddie

So I happened to have a whole Saturday with no plans. What to do? Well I decided that I'd give my day up to helping Kev and Liv. They just recently bought a house, which is just a couple blocks away from me (that's awesome because I have three friends in the neighborhood now), and they are currently remodeling it before they move in. You can check out their progress by going to their blog, and I have a link to it on the right hand side.

Having neighbors is great because it allows me to walk for just 5 or 10 minutes and be at a friend's house.

So I walked on down to Kev's place and told him to just have me do whatever. This is what we did accomplish: cut a drain pipe hole in the bathroom for the tub's new location; ripped out a door in the master bedroom; and framed a doorway for a closet that is yet to be built. Take a lookie here.

The great soon to be coat closet.





















The end of a fun day.