All posts by Jean

Ocean beaches :)

  • 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!

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!

 

 

…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 :)