Lueders Haus Blog

Finally can cross one item of the todo list this summer. The weather finally cleared up enough to get the painters here to put a new coat on the house. After painting most of the inside of the house green we have switched to blue. The outside has the same color scheme as our bathroom. Also the blue is just a few shades lighter than the neighbor’s house. Hopefully he doesn’t mind.

Took the painters about a week and most of that was prep. Once they got out the sprayer it only took a few hours to paint. Of course they chose what might end up as the hottest week of the summer to paint. Coming home Friday night to a wrapped up house after highs in the 90s was not fun.

Finally starting to warm up here in Seattle with highs in the upper 80s forecasted for this week. But the warm weather did not make it here for the 4th of July weekend. We took Highway 20 over to Mazama last weekend. It was a bit warmer than in Seattle but pretty windy.

We stayed at the rolling huts again. There is now a new cafe right next to rolling huts along side the highway. They serve breakfast and lunch every day and dinner on the weekends. The dinner menu is Spanish tapas and Polish beer! Not what I would have expected for the middle of nowhere but we will give it a try the next chance we get. The community ski trail goes right by there.

On Saturday hiked up to Louis Lake. The trail head was down near the end of the Twisp River Road. We had never been down that way before. The ski trails don’t go down this way but there is plenty of great hiking. Even though we had lack luster snow for the ski season this year, we had a number of late snow storms and a cool spring. So most of the really high country is still snowed in. Louis Lake had a few big patches of snow in the trees in right before the lake but was clear at the lake. There was a really chilly wind at the lake so we ate our lunches quick and headed back down. Not too many hikers on the trail that day but we did see six people on horseback and two goats. Emily was okay with the goats but growled at the horses.