It's snowing!

Window

Cow Conclave

Snow Cat

Yesterday, Sunday, we had our adoption day get together. In 1995 on November 19th nine little girls were gently set in the arms of waiting parents. The photos above were taken on Labor Day, but the folks who were at the party yesterday are pictured.

The top photo is four of those girls, plus one boy adopted from Korea a year and half later, and our second daughter adopted in 2000. In the middle picture are the parents who were at the gathering yesterday. The bottom photo is of me, my 2nd daughter and Kiana and Kira. What a wonderful thing to be able to invite these children into our lives.

I just wanted to see some more green, it's getting dry and cold. I'm working on getting the fence cleaned up and refinished while there are no plants climbing and leaning on it.

I'm trying the new beta blogging, but so far the photo I tried to upload was a square of brown, we'll see how this goes.

Vanessa,Jake and I needed to clear our heads so we headed out to the rocks.

Jan had written wanting to know about the hot springs we visited during our fall break, I had posted a summer type picture from their site, but this photo (also from their site and hopefully you will visit it to find a truly enjoyable experience) shows how wonderful it is in the snow. Their address is: http://www.hotspringspool.com/pool/pool_vr.htm

Yesterday I started out from our house to go on a hike.


This was taken after I went down our dirt road, then up a trail, no driving needed. It was great to have warm weather yesterday. It's been cold and all the leaves are gone, but we still have evergreens, including this yucca. This is looking East to a riparian zone with buttes.
I walked down from the trail bushwhacking and got to Jackson Creek which is nearby, I crossed it here and bushwhacked up to another trail heading the other way. Bushwhacking down I slipped on gravel and rock and reached out at the last minute to grab a tree. It stopped me, but I got a pinchy jolt in the wrist when the tree wouldn't let me go any further. Luckily I didn't let go with my hand and fall though.