Last Post of 2015

I had planned (rather loosely) to do a retrospective of 

our year on this last night... but to tell the truth, 

I did not have time. 

I also want to just say that Keith and I hope that everyone has had a 

good year this year... and is looking forward to 2016, as we are. 

We are blessed to come through the year, despite illness and the 

loss of my brother, with a sense of happiness and 

optimism. 

Here, then, are some pictures from today, to end our year. 

We had our two closest grands last night again, Jax and Paiton. 

Here they have "kitty whisker" hot chocolate mustaches. 

We went to a movie this afternoon in Leavenworth, 

"The Road Chip".  Grandma laughed her head off, and 

yes, the kids liked it, too.  Highly recommend for families to see. 

Yes, we walked, after we dropped the kids off.  You see that there have been several 

walking at the park... but those are Jester's prints on the left, from the last two days. 

It was almost 40 degrees when we walked today, a heat wave! 

On the way home (over some icy roads!) I had the camera out. 

More geese... we recycled on the way to the movie. 

You will have to take my word this is a covey of quail. 

I was so happy to see them. 

Not one picture came out!  

That is the clearest... I was just a little too far up road of them, and could not shoot them very well with the camera.  

They all flew across finally, after fighting amongst themselves, believe it or not. 

And into the woods, where they quickly disappeared from view. 

(If you look directly in the middle, you will see the back of one walking away) 

This was the next thing we saw.. that's a farm sign on the right. 

All summer long, I showed you three deer off and on, that I took along this road. 

In fact, the farm sign in the above picture with the cat is the farm with the beautiful lane where I took their pictures several times.  I was so surprised to see them out in the field tonight. 

And look who was just behind them to the left! 

There they are, a little closer!  

And my favorite little pond and cattle herd were the next things on the road, it was nice 

to know they were sharing their space with the wildings. 

Jester, Jax (who had just had his face licked all over!), Paiton and Lilly join with 

Keith and me in wishing you a safe night, and a 

prosperous and happy New 2016... we are so grateful for your 

comments and your wonderful blogs, and we are so glad 

you are our friends.