2020
Eric was feeling a little stir crazy one day, so we decided to drive up
Graves Creek Rd.
This is a road that leads high up into some national forest and is always
a nice trip.
Graves Creek, looking beautiful in the snow.
Heading back into town, this shows the inversion "clouds" that block the sun from us on many days in winter.
Larry and Mary Beth haven't been able to host as many parties as they'd like to this year
because of Covid-19 concerns. However, they put on one heck of a bonfire in December
that was enjoyed by all who attended. It was a nice outing!
The Crevice
I have always wanted to go to The Crevice, a neat canyon in Trego.
No one could ever
give me directions until my sister-in-law Amy visited, then she was able
to provide very
precise and easy instructions on how to get there - of course!
That's what Amy does!
Here's a view of the amazing scenery as we drove up into Trego one Monday afternoon.
The whole way in you walk on ice where you can here and sometimes
see the river flowing beneath you. I will admit, it freaked this Okie
girl out!
My shoe is at the bottom of this photo, and those other black things
are
holes where flowing water was visible. But yet we walked right over
it. Yikes!
visited previously, they had to climb up this boulder themselves. I thought
that even using the ladder was a challenge!
Buddy kept slipping on the ice. But he still sniffed everywhere, I
guess he could still
smell things despite the ice.
Driving out, more of the winter wonderland beauty in Trego.
Home again, the sun came out long enough to light up the mountains near out
house.
My birthday
My birthday is Christmas Eve, and except for one other time, I've
always spent it with my parents.
My family always makes a big fuss over me on my birthday and it's a hoot
to be treated so special
like that. But alas, this year it just wasn't in the cards for me to
go to Oklahoma - so Eric and Buddy
did their best to give me a special day.
It started with some blue skies and a lot of sun, quite a treat for us here in winter!
It kept making cracking noises and I couldn't calm down about it, so I went back to shore.
Eric took me out for lunch on my birthday and I ordered my favorite meal - breakfast! It was great.
That evening we went to Dan & Rose's house for gift opening and a
special traditional
Casazza Christmas meal - Norwegian lutefisk and lefsa. Lefsa is a thin
potato bread
and lutefisk is a fish that's been cooked until it turns into a kind of
jelly. You have to be
taught to like it from childhood or else it's hard to
appreciate!
Christmas Day
Buddy investigates a hole we saw along the way.
The kids draw names and do a gift exchange. Here they were taking
turns opening gifts
by order of age - youngest first.
gathering for the celebration. We got a wild hair and decided to invite everyone to our house
on about 3 hours notice. Of course, everyone pitched in with food and drinks, and it was great!
recently, I enjoyed this fireplace and Buddy enjoyed treats and attention from
nearly all of the staff. AND they washed my car afterward. Score!
Here comes that wild man now.
Lily is passionate about the fireplace. She can often be found
sleeping slightly too
close to the fire.
me around like my jacket was made of hay or something. One of them let me pet him.
It's always a treat when we can see the mountains during winter.
This shows them peeking up above
the inversion layer that we get so often. Our town is right between
a huge lake and the mountains, so
this causes this low-hanging cloud layer that blocks out the sun.
But on this day we saw the sky!
I looked out the window and was quite surprised to find a muskrat looking
back at me! We have this board stuck in the window well so that animals
can get out, but his little soft feet were not up to the task. He made it 6"
up the ramp and got so tired that he fell asleep.
I called my sweet husband and he left work to come home and rescue him
for me. What a guy!
That woke the little feller up, but Eric soon had him herded into a cat
carrier and then released
back at the lake where he belongs.
two HUGE foundations (30' by 200') this month and it was a LOT of work.
on the foundation in his sock feet, putting warming blankets on the fresh concrete.
Eric and Buddy and I enjoyed a date night one evening, out looking
at
Christmas decorations in Whitefish and buying my birthday gift - snow
boots - yea!
to learn from friends and neighbors on our road. They loved it.
A blurry shot of our Christmas decorations. You can't tell, but
the clear thing toward the
right side of the picture is a lovely cross my Dad made for
me.
boogie board on the ice. Then we all took a nice 2-mile walk together in the snow.
Aubrey is a wild thing! You can't scare that girl, she's fearless.
The trees were looking so pretty all along the walk.
When the Canadian Rockies want to show off, they don't go half-way.
This is amazingly beautiful to me.
This was taken from our driveway.
Buddy (bottom left) chasing deer who can't muster the energy to pretend to be afraid.
The Canadian Rockies were so pretty that night, I had to put a large picture of it in here. I just love this.
Our mountains were showing off too!
Eric, ice fishing out in front of our house. Yes, he is taking an
axe to the very ice that
he is standing on. I don't think I will ever want to try ice
fishing!
