Idaho Spring?

Last week was a traditional spring event for the valley, Bike to Work Day.  Imagine trick-or-treating for adults, minus the costumes and candy.  Instead everyone is in bike gear and takes their ride somewhere between the 30 mile stretch from Sun Valley to Bellevue (on their way to work) stopping at local vendor booths with prizes and treats for all.  I scored a new Smith t-shirt, some socks for Zach and I from Scott Sports, and a new bike tube from Sturtevants.  Being a spring event I would picture sunny casual weather, however, it was rainy and cold.  Not a big surprise considering we do live in the mountains but it always seems to be a shock to get out on your bike and need to bundle up in winter gear.

And the "spring" weather continued this weekend with scattered snow showers and rain.  Zach and I decided to finish up some projects that have been put on the back burner because of are usual eventful weekends.  We have been working hard on building a new dining table that will seat more then four people.  More details to come on this but Zach, Nick, and I slaved over building the top this past weekend.  It looks gorgeous!  Can't wait to pull it all together.

We worked on the table top out Indian Creek at Zach's parents house and every trip out the canyon we crossed by some neighborhood signs that said "Slow Down Kit Fox Crossing".  I spotted three of the little darlings a few weeks ago and actually got a picture of one of them this weekend. 

Jean pointed out another wildlife sighting of what we later identified as a Lazuli Bunting bird.  At first I thought it was the Idaho Blue bird but this little Bunting fellow had a distinct white stripe that was rather different from our state mascot. 

Note: Zach took the picture of the Bunting with the black birds.  The clear picture I borrowed from the internet for reference. 


So I guess even though Idaho hasn't caught on to the idea of spring we are moving forward with it regardless of the weather.