Terrace Lakes Wine and Art

Every year Terrace Lakes holds their Wine and Art Festival.  There is live music, food,  and even beer.  You buy a wine glass, and then can sample all the wines being featured while wandering through the different booths with various art or crafts for sale. There was a variety of things to catch your attention. If you do not prefer wine, they offer a selection of beer and non alcoholic beverages as well.  It is a family event...and some people even bring their dogs.  This year we decided to have lunch in the lodge.  Good food...Great atmosphere...beautiful day.  First day this year that was sunny and warm.  We drove over from our cabin in Lowman in our Jeep with the top down.  First time this year we could do that.  Such a great time, fabulous day!

Custer County, Idaho

We have been spending the week at the cabin.  Today was the best day so far for weather, so we decided to adventure out . We traveled up to Stanley, and then on to the Sunbeam mining area the dam, and historical bathhouse.  From there we went to Bonanza's historical graveyard, up the Yankee Fork to the dredge. At the dredge we took a few minutes to look through binoculars at the mountain side.  We were so excited to see mountain sheep.  I had never seen one in the wild before.  Totally awesome.  On to Custer.
 Custer is a mining ghost town and we took a tour of the buildings left standing.  There was a gentleman from the  Forrest Service that acted as our guide.  Amazing how things were in the town back then versus now. At the gift shop we talked to a resident there for the summer that helps keep things up.  Got some gold flecks, and Sasparillo,  then headed home.  All in all it took about 2 1/ 2 hour's drive back home.  We did see deer, elk, antelope, cranes, and of course chipmunks.  All in all a great day. Highly recommend a trip to Custer if you are nearby and want to see part of Idaho history.

Awesome weekend

We recently traveled to Jerome for my nieces wedding.  Rachel was married in a barn setting.  The barn was a lavarock and mortar structure built in 1901.  The food and entertainment was wonderful.  On the way back we traveled through Thousand Springs.  The water was gushing..it was a beautiful day for a drive.