Would you believe we were seeing green grass yesterday..?

Well it is true!

Matter of fact, Earl, Porter, and I left Parma a day early due to the up and coming winter storm watch...Last night we arrived in Spokane to balmy winter temperatures (40's) and woke up to SNOW!

This is the backyard (our maple tree) at about 630 PM

The front yard at about the same time...Between Earl and I we have been shoveling machines (more Earl than myself to be honest)...Oh and you can see in the photos - STILL SNOWING!

An up close and personal shot of Porter this morning, he is really enjoying his romps in the snow. It was windy this morning - the snow is almost horizontal in the photo so he was squinting to keep the snow out of his eyes...

Merry Christmas! A few days late...

Christmas was in Parma, ID with my family, it was a lot of fun! We had a busy house with five dogs, so we took four of them down to my mom and dad's field for a bit of a run and play time. Earl, Brian and I took time for a quick photo

Merry Christmas!!!

Thanksgiving Weekend - Part I

I am a little late with our Thanksgiving blog but here it goes...

We started out our Thanksgiving weekend in Sandpoint, Wednesday, Thursday, and up to Friday afternoon, which was really nice and well, pretty snowy but good drives both to and from. Thanksgiving dinner was beautiful and tasted wonderful! We also had a visit from a small family of raccoons on Grandma Dee's deck during Thanksgiving dinner - too funny!

We then headed out to Brian and Charlie's cabin so that Earl could finish up with the stair and loft railings (he finished welding them up and installed them)...we also took advantage of the hills and the snow for a little sledding!

Earl had a bit of crash off of his sled...I for some reason could hardly stay on my sled and went down most of the time on my rear-end...

Happy sledders!


Charlie making her way down the driveway - the snow berms acted as bumpers as we made our way down the driveway!

Thanksgiving weekend - Part II

Earl and I got a chance to shoot with Brian, we had a lot of fun!

I don't shoot often but I did pretty well, totally blasted a milk jug through the cap!

Earl beat me to the cap of the plastic juice bottle...bummer for me but great for Earl!
Earl looks like he is really concentrating on his target in this picture...

Thanksgiving Weekend - Part III

Cabin railing and stairs - FINISHED and they look great!

From the top of the stairs

From the bottom of the stairs

Enjoy!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Last weekend's CABIN UPDATE! Part I

Last weekend Earl and I went out to the cabin to help Charlie and Brian with the stair and loft railings. Earl is fabricating the metal portion of the project.

Here is an update of the cabin ceiling - it is just beautiful!

Another great shot of the ceiling, as well as, the installed posts and rails for the stairs...the 4x4 post were cut from extra log pieces left from the cabin and the main post at the bottom of the stairs was from extra beam...

Here's a shot of Porter out in front of the cabin...he was really hoping that Shaggy would come down and play...no luck!

See Part II and III for more photos from the weekend, we all really moved and got a lot finished! Soon the loft and stairs will be finished! We really had a great time working on the cabin and it is so awesome to see such progress every time we come out!

Enjoy!

Last weekend's CABIN UPDATE! Part II

Earl welding up the stair railing

Yes, Earl is welding inside the cabin...one of us was on spark duty at all times.

Porter sneaking a nap on the airbed...naughty boy...I let him sleep, he was a tired boy!

It is funny how we find him curled up where he shouldn't be when we are at the cabin...about this time last year he was curled up in Earl's duffle bag!