Happy New Year! In 1959, the first baby of the year for Worland, Wyoming was… Vernon! Today we celebrated with all the kids, grandkids, and Johnny present. Vernon asked for meatloaf and mashed potatoes, I added my traditional blackeyed peas, and salad, and German Chocolate cake. It was a good time, and I think I…
Winners
A tip of my hat to all of you who voted for me… I won the photo contest!!! I will receive a new custom hat from Greeley Hat Works in Colorado. Thanks for your votes and time… The voters who also won prizes are Dave Lewis, Jan Chaney and Kelsey Keith. A side note: Second…
Sledding!
Oh what fun it is to ride…
A Little Care
Well, the grandsons didn’t make it back in time to go sledding… so I’ll share a few presents. Here’s Johnny’s watercolor I painted of this scene… Yeah, well… morepractice, morepractice! Here’s a couple I received… This one is a vintage pillow, you can see the pattern underneath where they stitched. The light is off a…
Show Stealer
The point of my hike today was to take pictures of some snow for one of my readers… one who lives across The Pond, and whose 4 year old granddaughter has forgotten what snow is!!! I think I will get 4 year old Quinlan, who received a “Super Duper Sled” for Christmas, to pose for…
Thanks
Thanks for all the birthday wishes!!! It was a wonderful Christmas!
Small Blessings
I hope your Christmas was filled with lots of small blessings…
I know you are reading this on Christmas day, but I’m writing it on Christmas Eve. Christmas Eve is the birthday of Johnny, and I thought it was about time I gave more than a passing Happy Birthday to him at the bottom of a post! I just wanted everyone to know that this man…
Great Deal
Another visit with the Man in Red. Neither Lacee nor Jaxon was going to get very close. While Lacee was working up her courage, Jaxon was in my lap sobbing. Poor little guy. He’d been so excited to see Santa, but the actual face to face was just too much. Good ol’ Santa, though… he…
Winter Watercolor
Today we shared gifts at the library… My favorite to give??? A monochrome watercolor of this sod roofed barn. I wanted a place unique enough the owner could recognize it, and this was perfect! My rendition was not… but I tried! A little artistic license… but not bad. **** On another note… I entered a…
Traditions!
(I always say that word like Tevye does… TRADITIONS!) Last night’s blog got me to thinking… what are my family’s Christmas traditions??? Well, first of all… Christmas Eve is Oyster Stew. With none of my family around, meaning my parents and brother and sister, the only ones to eat oyster stew are Daniel and I. …