• Cleaning up the computer to make room for more bytes :)
• Brunch with family at the Bagel Shop
• Garrett’s touching tribute to his father-in-law!
• The bald eagle found in someone’s driveway, brought back to health, and free and flying again
• One of the places we fish where there are an abundance of beautiful bald eagles
• By the way, that billboard with the pic of Mount Rushmore…the actual ad wording is “4 friends seek bachelor pad”…cute, huh…
• Belle’s awesome Creative Spiritual Women about Ava!
• Remembering when a grandson was born and now he towers above me, asks “what can I do to help” and teaches me
• Great health
• “A smile is the most beautiful curve on a woman’s body.” -Anon.

1. Hundreds of baby black angus grazing on a blanket of white snow.
2. Taking the pot hole road again..most of the holes filled..but an adventure…
3. …beautiful panoramic views of the surrounding mountains making it worth the drive.
4. Sign on the back of a horse trailer (with horse in it) “Forget the whales, save a cowboy.” :)
5. How we f e e l: when it rains; while it is snowing; when the sun shines in all of its warmth and glory; when we are surrounded by fog.
6. Julie London’s “A Foggy Day”
7. Our neighbors spending time at their cabin in the mountains these wintry days.
8. GPa’s fresh bread..so good.
9. Happily anticipating spring…Carol is keeping count for us!!!
10. Love Skype and being able to see our loved ones while talking with them! 

1. Sweetheart
2. Love
3. Cupids
4. Flowers
5. Valentine cards
6. A Charlie Russell painting “My Valentine” showing a beautiful woman alongside cupids…lovely but totally un-Russell from his cowboys and Indians paintings.
7. Marriage proposals
8. Heart candies
9. A spring in our steps
10. I Love You

• …2/12/2012
• Precious pictures
• Sweet lady at an 800#
• Beeps of smoke alarm advertising on tv…Pepper is sensitive to them and when we catch it fast enough we put the ad on mute
• Annual Race to the Sky 100 mi. dog race
• A couple who have been married 70 years…wow!
• Sunday paper cartoon: “Heaven Processing Station”….”Humans, please stop at review station before proceeding.”  –  “Dogs: Proceed straight ahead.”  :)
• Abundance of good energy
• Strength

1. The real estate co. billboard showing Mount Rushmore and saying something like “4 friends seeking a place to live”
2. Several days and nights of continuous snow
3. Roads nicely plowed and sanded
4. Pushing the grocery cart through the plowed but snow packed parking lot…a real effort of great exercise
5. Filling the truck gas tank, wow, and grateful to be able to fill it
6. Selecting a great pineapple
7. Valentine bouquets everywhere we look
8. GPa’s yummy chili on a cold snowy day
9. Helen’s paisley coat
10. Rest

1. Belle’s awesome messages on Creative Spiritual Women!
2. Stratford-on-Avon
3. The Bard
4. Avon products :)
5. Beautiful long dress for a formal affair
6. Amethyst
7. Leap year
8. Locksmiths
9. Falling off a horse and getting right back on again
10. “Failure is a sign post to turn you in another direction.” -Oprah

Blue Butterflies…came upon a huge huge swarm of them while in the mountains one summer day…soooo beautiful!!

Clotheslines…and the freshness of sheets

Ironing

GPa’s bbq ribs..yummy

Bogey…a chocolate lab who recently had several strokes…but he’s okay now

Old old Western movies

Football season is over until pregames in August

Taking our sight for granted…my cousin recently had corrective  eye surgery and is very well

The word paradox…has always confused me, perhaps because it is what it isn’t…or it isn’t what it is? :)

Grateful for our friendly neighbors

• Jewelry: watches, pins, rings (congratulations to the Giants for winning the Superbowl and getting their Superbowl rings!)
• Medals: Gold/silver/bronze…Military:Bronze Star, Congressional Medal of Honor
• Cash bonus..verbal Thank You..handshake
• Time off…vacation
• Flowers…dinner gathering
• Media announcement
• Trophy, plaque
• Clothing: jackets, shirts, hats
• Job promotion
• Handwritten letters, greeting cards

1. Daffodils…harbingers of spring
2. Cleaning my laundry room
3. GPa placed a bag of several small items on top of the car, got in the car and drove away with paper bag still on top; drove about 10 mi., mostly thru town, and when he arrived at home he saw the bag on top of the car; it was lodged in the luggage rack; vital items and information.  Praise God!
4. Daughter’s road trip…breathtaking scenery
5. Talented granddaughter’s role in a community play
6. A great unplanned visit with friends!
7. Postage stamps
8. Reminiscing about our gold mining days
9. Grandson’s ski event in Utah
10. Just another day in paradise!

Cherry Pie…Michigan grows 75% of the nation’s tart cherries. Traverse City, which holds an annual National Cherry Festival, billed as the cherry capital of the world.

Pecan Pie…Popular in Alabama and Georgia, and also the Oklahoma Panhandle which named it the “official state meal.”

Chocolate Hazelnut Pie…Farmers in the NWest found that hazelnuts mix well with chocolate or maple. Oregon grows 99% of commercial hazelnuts in the U.S.

Key Lime Pie (My Fave!) … Because the Florida Keys had no refrigeration until the Overseas Highway opened in 1938, bakers had to use canned milk, which became an essential element of Florida’s state pie.

Macadamia Nut Pie…This pie is almost a religion in Hawaii.  Mac Pie has been around for more than 100 yrs. and has many variations.

Mississippi Mud Pie…Said to have come about after WWII because it was made from ingredients available at most local groceries.  And the name…..the chocolate crust reminded some of the muddy banks of the Mississippi River.

Derby Pie…A chocolate and walnut pie traditionally eaten around the time of the Kentucky Derby.  It originated about 50 years ago by the mgr. of a Kentucky inn.

And, of course, we have: Coconut Cream Pie; Pumpkin Pie; Sweet Potato Pie; Apple Pie; Olallieberry (youngberry-loganberry cross); Hoosier Pie; many others….

Wait! Wait!…where are you going?  Oh, off to get a piece of pie?  Enjoy!!! :)