Look at all those beautiful trees! And that blue sky! Can you tell I'm happy I'm not in the desert anymore?

Oregon is probably at it's most beautiful at the moment, but of course, which state isn't in the spring?
Fruit trees are blossoming everywhere:

It's making for the prettiest pictures ...

 

Some of them smell pretty good too!

The first seeds are already ripening and the Goldfinches are busy all day, just stuffing themselves!

 

 

The grass is already growing like crazy and although our landlord is doing the mowing of the orchard (so far), James has weed-whacked the area around the RV, and a few areas the mower cannot get too.
They're knocking a few dollars of the rent for that, and we might take over the mowing completely in the near future, as a barter. We'll see how it goes.

                  

And yes .. it happened .. I couldn't do anything about it .. I turned 60 this week!

                                                                       

Oh my goodness, can you believe it. Sixty! Who'd thought that one day I would turn this 'old'!
Oh well. According to my friend Irene 60 is the new 40, so I'll take it ...
I sure don't feel like 60, but I think nobody does, or this is just how you're supposed to feel? Not bad at all actually, so I guess it's all good.

 
I must say, had I known I would get so many presents, I would have turned 60 a lot earlier!
Look at that! A package arrived from Amazon, send by my sister and my Mam, which turned out to be some gorgeous fine Merino roving (really it's so fine it feels like silk) and 3, yes three, beautiful jig-saw puzzles!
Sweet!

Talking about sweet .. how about this little cutey? The one on the left I mean ..

That's me, with my first 'real' bike, on my 5th birthday! And guess what, that's me there on the right too, getting a bicycle on my 60th! Never too old ..
(that's not a new one, by the way, just new to me. I picked one up in town via Craigslist. It's a Schwinn, a pretty good bike, and it came complete with that cute basket. I just hope I will be able to get up those hills around here!)

All in all, I had a really nice, quiet day, just like I wanted (no big fuss please, thank you), with a sumptuous chocolate cake for coffee and sushi for dinner (take-out, they don't let people inside yet) .. and lets not forget about all those presents!

But arguably the best present of all, was the fact that I snatched up two appointments, one for James and one for myself, for a Covid vaccine!

We had to go to McMinnville to get them, about 15 minutes away. Somebody told us we were only two of 1200 they were going to vaccinate that day! Wow!
We got the Moderna vaccine, and besides some pain at the injection site we have had no other side-effects. So far ..
We'll get our second shot in 4 weeks, on May 27th. Let's just say that I'm a very happy camper!

OK, that's all I have for this week .. to be continued.