Toe surgery, Valentine's Day at home/with Bean & Japanese Garden work

 

On Thursday Paul had some toe surgery done to hopefully correct some things and make it a bit better.  So far he's making a good recovery.  On Friday the 13th, for Valentine's Day, we used a gift cards the kids gave us and went to Nonna Ina Italian restaurant for lunch.  It was SO GOOD! They have this big wheel of Romano cheese that they light on fire to make it all melty.  They they dump your pasta carbonara in the middle of that and swish is around until it's covered in creamy cheese.  Then they twist it up and put it on you plate.  Ahhh...so wonderful.  We had enough left for dinner that night too.  

On Saturday (actual Valentine's Day) we went up to visit Bean.  We dropped off Valentines to the Randalls and the Weavers and then drove up to Parowan and had lunch at Dee Dee's Farmhouse Cafe.  It's a fun little place that's located in what used to be an old sheep barn from the beginning days of Parowan.  Not much looks old or sheepy how.  It was really good food and such a fun atmosphere.  Afterwards we took a backroad drive out to Parowan Gap where we saw a dinosaur track and lots of petroglyphs.  I hadn't seen the dinosaur track part before.  It was a really nice day and a good to spend time with Bean.  

Another cool thing that's been happening is Paul doing some stonework here at home and also doing a job for the city.  They built a new City Hall and out back they have a little area that they have decided to make into a Japanese garden.  Paul and Tim did some nice stonework there.  It's getting close to finished and looking so nice.  

And here are the photos of the Japanese Garden all done!

Rock trip, rocks and the Shed of Dome

 Rock trips to get rocks, and projects in the backyard.  Paul is so creative.  That means there's always something cool happening in our backyard.  On this rock trip, I got a rock of my very own - it's a 3 leveled beauty.  Just have to figure out where it's going to go in our back yard now!