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Appreciation
(looking down on our valley below)I want to rise above it all and soar on the wings of appreciation, gratitude and thankfulness,
Happy Thankful Day!
May you find MUCH to be thankful for today and every day!Enjoy this day,
and family
Memory Lane Monday: School Band Days
Melinda and I practicing (above) probably in about 1990. Melinda and John practicing together (below) in 1994.
I had to share these pictures today for my brother and sister. It is fun to see "together" moments like this after all these years! Makes me miss them and our ordinary days together when we where younger.And I'd love to pick up that trombone and try my hand at it again! Wouldn't my kids love to see me play that... ;)
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Pie Time
It's that time of year when our thoughts turn to pie. Here is a pie I tried a few weeks ago and we really enjoyed it. I will be making two more of them now for Thanksgiving and thought I would share the recipe on County Kitchen Recipes. I like the idea that you don't have to make two separate pie crusts and I'm a big fan of the crumbly top. YUM! Click HERE to see the recipe!Hope all are enjoying getting ready for Thanksgiving! It's a great time of year!
Hugsfromus!
Breaking Away!
Day Break in the Fort Peck Breaks (above)Everyone needs a change of perspective once and a while...
He met his Dad in the badlands in the Fort Peck Breaks again this year where they had both drawn cow tags. The hunt wasn't a "success" for either of them in terms of shooting an elk. But they did get off a lot of good shots on the Canon...
It sounds like a lot of their time was spent hiking up to the high ground and then just looking around with their binoculars and waiting to see something. Then off again...
Lunch out...
Another sign of life but no elk...
A beautiful desolate land. Would you believe me if I told you they saw seashells on top of some of these baron hills?
Getting up higher. They didn't see many elk and couldn't get close enough to the ones that they did see. But apparently it was a good time had but both father and son...
Surviving and thriving...
And while he was gone, I slaved away at home doing all the chores above all my daily bread baking, cooking meals, laundry, running back and forth to school 3 to 5 times a day, etc.... And on top of it all, I even made and smoked 30 pounds of summer sausage. At least that's what I told him anyway...
In reality, I also fit in a massage at the spa, my water aerobics, a little shopping for new boots, an evening with some friends, and we ate out a couple times too! I think we all survived just fine!
So glad you got to go Dear Husband. Thanks for all your hard work!
Love your Wife,
and kids!
Memory Lane Monday: Chevrolet Runs Deep
This picture was taken at Thanksgiving time in November of 2005. I think the picture was taken by Auntie Aleta and I had some fun editing it.The most outstanding thing about this old 1947/48 green 3-quarter-ton Chevy is that Great Grandpa Alva and Great Grandma Ruth would travel with all 4 sons in it across Montana to visit family. Our family makes the same trip several times a year and it takes us about 9 hours in our air conditioned/heated, roomy, comfortable, quiet, speedy van. Makes me glad and thankful for modern convenience.
But I kinda like this old truck, I really, really do!
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Sweet School Faces
Here they are! The traditional once a year school pictures that we just have to have because we just have to have them. Or maybe... I just have to have them because Randy and I always had them growing up and so now I have to have our kids school pictures taken every year too. :)Anyway...
It's fun to take the old 8x10's off the wall and replace it with the new 8x10's and compare how much they've changed in a year. It's fun to pass them out to the grandparents, aunts and uncles because now that they are older, I don't get that done very often. So, since I spent the money on them, it makes it more urgent to get them sent out and shared with the family. If you are any of the above mentioned "family", your pictures are coming soon! As "soon" as I get the cards made to send with them. Hopefully they will still look the same by the time I get that done...
But for now...
Off to bed I go,
Memory Lane Monday: The Good Ol' Days
It's that time of year again here in Montana!When I thought of doing today's Memory Post, I thought this is the perfect picture to post today as Randy gets ready to head east to go hunting with his Dad. This is a picture of Randy, his Dad and brother, and his uncles and cousins, getting ready to go out hunting together on the farm. I don't know the year it was taken but judging from the way Randy looks (second to last on right) it looks like sometime in the early 90's.
Good luck to all you hunters!!!
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