Happy New Year 2008

Howdy All,

Happy, healthy, safe, secure 2008 to All. Our wishes for you to
be surrounded by true friends and to walk in beauty always.

Here's a shot of "our" mountains on Dec. 31, 2007 sometime around
4:30-ish p.m. Natural light, after sunset, used auto settings on
the camera but had to hold the flash shut so it wouldn't fire.

Christmas Cuddlies

We had a very cuddly Christmas this year. We all got new slippers from North Star Trading Co. at Pike Place Market in Seattle.



From left to right: Gooserock's, GMom's, P4's.

Ordinarily I don't get excited about slippers or any piece of clothing but these slippers are really something. For one thing, they breathe. I've always said that my bodily thermostat is in my feet. If my feet are comfortable, I'm comfortable. I usually run around in the house barefoot, but I'm totally comfortable in these slippers....not too hot....not too cold.

Let me show you the slippers "at work".


Serving Gooserock while he is blogging.


Serving GMom while resting and keeping Toto2 company.


Serving P4 while photographing...hmmmmm

Ever notice how hard it is to take a photo of your own feet?....even happy feet?

Merry, Happy, Healthy Wishes to you All

I hope you all are having a wonderful holiday. I surely am. It started with getting to sleep in until 10:30 this morning. But let me go back to last night, Christmas Eve.

Here's what our house looked like from outside.

We share our gifts on Christmas Eve. Waiting till the morning is for the children, I feel. Of course, that may be because I'm still too much of a kid to wait another night. :-)

We had a very special dinner last evening. GMom has been lobbying for the last year to go to a restaurant where she could order lobster. She cannot eat any shell fish except lobster. Come to find out, restaurants don't offer lobster here where we live....too expensive since they come from the east coast. So Gooserock had the idea of buying a live one ($30.00) and cooking it for her. I told him I couldn't deal with cooking a live critter no matter how much GMom wanted one. So he did it all. We managed to keep it a surprise until we placed it in front of her

Caption for this next one: Oh dear, where do I start.

And at last, here is our tree covered with wishes for you all to be Happy, Merry, Healthy and Safe, now and in the New Year. It is such a joy to share with you all.