Hi Everyone! I miss my YLF involvement. I'm going through this very practical dressing phase right now. Due to body changes and aging I think. I'll be 59 in a few weeks. I just don't feel very fashionable. Although if I have to dress up, I can manage to look ok. I am stuck in a sneakers, mules, boyfriend jeans and sweatshirt mode. This outfit is actually one of my most stylish of the past few months. I admit to also wearing the Uggs far, far too often. I bought them in November 2015 during a YLF outlet mall shopping trip in Seattle. They were intended as house shoes. Which they were last year. But this year I started to wear them outside to the garage, then it was on trips to the post office, then I even wore them on trips to my next "big" town 25 miles away where my boyfriend lives. Plus, my SIL gave me a cozy lightweight, bright green North Face down jacket that I can't take off.

Such is the slippery slope of Uggs and gear.

We have had an exceptionally wet winter. And still coming. The snowpack was 175% of normal a month ago, and we've had regular precipitation since. The downside is that after 5 years of bone-dry drought and massive wildfires, the downpour has wreaked havoc with roads, hills, houses and trees. Highway 120 is the northwestern entrance to Yosemite National Park is the basis of our economy. The road collapsed to the tune of 200 ft., so no entrance to Yosemite Valley. They've been working on it since February, and there's no projected finish date. Our sales are down 53%. I hate to lay off employees, although some of their hours have already been cut.

I am spending time looking after Mom (84) and our two old limping dogs, who spend most of their days as pictured.

Bonus pics of my boyfriend's neighbor's farm animals who spend lots of time escaping into his yard. The neighbors are raising fancy goats. The young ones are super friendly and tame, and don't mind being held. You can pet the Mama pig but not her piglets.