Well, I’m a little bummed out: It looks like I won’t be able to make any of the TQ Home Award tours lined up for this year. The first tour was scheduled for yesterday in Truckee. Between the snowstorm that came through on Sunday night, being now based in Reno and no longer having a car with snow tires, it didn’t make a lot of sense to fight the storm and head up the hill. There’s a big tour on Thursday (Martis Camp, which means there will be some unbelievable building projects!), but my mom and sister get into town so it’s probably bad form to ditch them to tour houses. That and, with baby Bender due any minute now, I really shouldn’t be too far from my hospital! I guess I’ll just live vicariously through the other panelists… On another note, although I’m not ready for winter quite yet, how beautiful is the combination of golden aspens with snow-covered peaks?
Alison O. Bender 