Supper...The first day Oscar was here, he barked at his reflection in the frig!  Too funny.

We are getting some snow.  Lookin' good!

Sharing the couch while watching the olympics.  The Cat is pretty much delegated to the floor, although he shared the couch part time too.

This winter!

I've gotten re-hooked on an old addiction!  Genealogy!  

It's all Michael's fault.  He was asking questions about the Klarens, and I got on the internet.  Then subscribed to Ancestry.com.  What a tool.  In the 1970s I wrote hundreds of letters to relatives, court houses, the archives in Washington D.C., cemeterys all over the country and more.  We did much traveling, which was great, for sure.  But the internet is an awesome tool for finding out about your ancesters.  It's a trip.

Gettin' a little snow.

Some of the neighbor horses came up by ours..drooling over their hay.

Love the snow on this honeysuckle bush.

Happy 18th Birthday Thad...

I can't believe Thad is eighteen.  Wow...

Some of the birthday presents that showed up yesterday.

Brandon Bailey painting that Nancy and Troy had done for me.

Betty and Brent showed up with a new tv.

Sara and Scott helped install it.  These shots I took didn't turn out that great, but it's what I took on the phone.  I got a lot of phone calls, texts, emails, cards and presents.  It was a special day.  Many thanks everyone!

Clear Ice on Fremont

I got such a kick out of the families out on the ice yesterday.  We did drive up Skyline, and there's open water along the east edge, but everywhere else there's clear gorgeous ice.

Then last night we had a beautiful sunset, which I didn't get photographed.  Later, I loved the black and white sky even better.  We got an inch of snow over night, and Bob's plowing that off the ramp at the airport.  That will also cover the gorgeous ice on the lake.

I wanted to add  my shot of the balloon festivle in Mesquite.  I took this on my phone while Betty was gassing up.  Check Judi's pictures...she has some great ones.

A few days in Mesquite

We started the day with breakfast at Peggy Sue's.  Loved that breakfast.  Then 

we drove out to Falling Man Petroglyphs.. I love this type of country.

This is just a shot out of the car as we are traveling along on a "paved road".  It was paved, but not exactly a speedway.  We were in Betty's caddy...

I'm not posting a bunch of these..even though they were the whole purpose of going.  Maybe later. They were everywhere, and Betty said every time they go out, they find different ones.  They are truley amazing. You've probably seen pictures of all of them on Judi's blog.

Mostly I want this to show what a neat day we had.

Oscar wouldn't drink.  When we got back to the car he was so thirsty.  Speedy loved the little water pockets.

We drove miles out to the Gold Butte Ghost Town.  Betty is checking out some of the smoke spots where some of the legends have it that the Indians did some rituals there.  There were some neat little pockets in the rocks where you could see a lot of smoke.

This must have been their water source.

Wine time when we got back!  Later we went to the Eureka and gambled and had dinner.  It was a full, and fun day.  The next day we kicked around town.  We did some shopping, lunch at the...as I write this I can't think of the name, and I've asked Betty twice...but it's a sports bar.  We gambled as we ate.  I loved it.  Then we had pedicures, treats from Sara.  It was a new experience for me, but it was awesome.  My feet still feel soft and nice.  We planned to bowl, but the bowling ally was full, thanks to a soccer tournament that was in town.  We went to the house, had some wine, and almost crashed.  We had Mexican food, and then crashed.  Yesterday morning we were up, packing, Betty was cleaning, and we left about 8:00 a.m. Mesquite time.  We rolled into Pinedale about five Pinedale time.  Bob took me to the Stockman's for dinner, where Betty and Brent were eating.  So we had fun eating with them.  Kip and Bonnie Alexander were there with family and friends, and we had a long visit with them afterwards.  That was a trip down memory lane.

Devil's Throat!

Mesquite

Betty and Sara and I did a lot of driving to neat places...petroglyphs and a little ghost town.

Drive to Jackson

As usual, the sheep were on the road.  It's fun to see them.  Let's see, this morning having breakfast, there were two bull moose out our dining room window.  Also we had deer in the yard.  Going to Jackson we saw elk, sheep, and buffalo.  It was a wildlife kind of day.  Nice lunch at Bubbas.