- Watching our video from years ago of our fun adventure at Surftides in Lincoln City, OR
- Left the camera on the balcony and captured beautiful ocean views for several hours
- Pics of us on the beach while the camera filmed…
- …our poodle-pom, Buffy, running and playing on the sand
- Still have some of the seashells
- Seagulls sitting on the balcony ledge
- Calm
- Long walks on the beach
- Distant fog
- Sea spray mist
- Fun memories!
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warm thoughts
- GPa’s Sunday Birthday :)
- Chinese food
- Cathy & Abe
- Abe unexpectedly shoveling our driveway!
- Welcome family calls and greetings
- Discussing blessings
- Warmer weather on the way :)
- Reading about people so grateful for anon gifts: groceries paid for; firewood donated; vehicles dug out from snowbanks…nice!
- Alaska didn’t have enough snow for the Iditarod dog sled race…had to bring some in..wow!
diamonds
- Looking at the snow-covered everything last night and it was so beautiful with lights shining on it…like diamonds dancing everywhere :)
- Neighbor Phil called again this morning…said Missoula was being snowed upon and we should get it in about 30 min….sure ’nuff, half an hr. later here it came!
- Annual Cabin Fever Boat Show this weekend if anyone wants to get out of the house and dream about spring/summer and boating.
- Cookie looking at the TV and enthralled with the Alaskan dog sled dogs barking and running :)
- Cathy’s picture and reference to Bora Bora Beach Paradise! Let’s see…that song says “…leavin’ on a jet plane”….:):)
- Laundry
- Dinner in the crock pot
- I tried to catch some fog. I mist.
- I stayed up all night to see where the sun went. Then it dawned on me.
- Phil, our neighborhood weatherman
- Income taxes finished :)
- Helping my sister
- Frustration, stress
- Prayer, calm, peace
- My driving safely after the snow storms
- Grateful for the maintenance crews for having our roads plowed and well sanded!
- Record set: Billings, MT, 80 in. of snow this year
- The girl said she recognized me from the vegetarian club, but I’d never met herbivore :)
- Dinosaur with an extensive vocabulary…a thesaurus :)
beautiful snow
- Snow
- Defrosting chest freezer…
- …putting contents on the deck where they’ll stay c o l d until freezer is thawed :)
- Still snowing!
- GPa shoveling and shoveling
- David’s airplane
- GPa’s apple pie…yummy
- Did I say it was still snowing? :)
- Mental health
- Mountain passes
- Sleeping giant cozy under blankets of snow :)
- Happy news from an early a.m. phone call!
- Lady from Boston, MA…I could listen to her talk all day :)
- Cookie rolled in “something” outside…
- …good thing she loves her bath :)
- Snowy winter day…
- …cozying in with homemade stew…
- …and GPa’s fresh bread.
- Sorting through and purging videos…old VCRs and DVDs…
- …some of family Christmas gatherings…
- …gsons’ first haircuts…vacations…fun!
Valentines Day :)
- Happy Valentines Day!
- Love
- Hugs
- Gratitude
- Sweet
- Smiles
- Hearts
- Flowers
- Romance
- Marriages
- Happiness
…and then there is Rose…
- Rose, an interesting gal with red hair showing under her light brown Stetson…
- …a real cowgirl who came into town from her ranch in a huge 4×4 pulling a horse trailer…
- …wearing her Carhartt jacket, pants, and boots…
- …stories to tell…..watta gal :)
- The Beatles!
- A great celebration of the first time the Beatles were on the Ed Sullivan Show 50 years ago
- Memories of the Ed Sullivan Show when Elvis first appeared there
- Finding the green & gold (GBayPacker colors) trivet that our granddaughter knitted many years ago…
- …bringing it out and using it daily :) More good memories.
- Scrunch of snow
- Cold wind
- Wood smoke
- -70 in one area
- Car engine heaters
- GPa keeping an appointment at -20
- Seeing well-bundled toddlers
- Lady who drives 45 mi. to work, over a mountain pass, 5 days a week…this morning it was -50
- That pass is about 7,000 ft. and totally gorgeous!!
- Our cozy and warm home
- Grateful that we are well and able to be outside if that is our choice.
dog-cat?
- Happy February! Valentine month …
- …4 birthdays in one week in our family :)
- Cookie, our 5 yr. old shih tzu, who sometimes behaves like a cat :)
- We rescued her from the animal shelter and do not know who had her before…she often surprises us and brings us smiles…
- …she likes our neighbor’s cat, YoYo…and she jumps up to higher places, chairs, the top of the seatback in the vehicle…when she whines for attention she sounds just like a cat :) Perhaps we should have named her Garfieldia? (sorry, couldn’t resist)
- Volunteers who help seniors and disabled with their tax forms
- Getting a live person when we call a business
- Bronze cleaner
- Swiffers…enjoy that tv commercial with the couple who are 90 yrs. old and real people, not actors :)