January 28 headed south-February

George got food poisoning 10 hours into our 30 hour drive to Florida.  He was SO SICK!!
Harvey Topinka found an instacare in Macon, GA on the internet.  We called, got in first thing, got antibiotics, and headed on out.  I drove to Rotonda.  We made it.  We had hoped to get to St Petersburg, special mtg tomorrow, but George was too sick.

                                                    Everything was good at the house.

                                             Atlanta traffic, heavy and it wasn't rush hour.

 We found a fun place to eat overlooking the river.  It was 68 degrees or so and they had heaters set up on the deck behind George.  Some people were wearing gloves and stocking caps.

                                           Crab salad on top of lettuce, avocado on the side.

                                                        And clam chowder, so yummy!!

                                        So not like Wyoming!  Fun to see and do new things.

More January 2015

A random collection of January pictures.  Fischer and Elizabeth.

                       Jeremy and Amy live 10 minutes from a ski area, so enjoy that quite a bit.

                             I numbered 1500 cow tags for the cull cows Walter told Chris to buy.

 Our dear friend Phyllis passed away in her mid 90's.  Our families have been well acquainted over the years.  All her kids/my friends have hair the same color as mine now!  It was nice to see everyone.

                                         Jeff and his men ready for a big wild cow  gather.

                                                               Beautiful country!

                                                                   Cowboy Clayton.

January 2015-first half

Starting the New Year off right......we left on New Year's Day heading west.  My mom went with us and we had such a nice time as usual!  http://bloomerestates.com/property/first-mates-cottage/

This is the road leading to the First Mates Cottage.  We weren't there when they saw this bear.

 The view from the deck.  The crab boats were our day and night.  One night George counted 24 lights as the boats went back and forth.

 The camellia bush by the front door.  Blooming in January!!  So not what we are used to!

 Mom and George and I walked out behind the house to dig for clams.  It was a great evening.

                                 Checking out You Tube for cleaning and cooking instructions.

                                                             One limit = 15 clams.

                                             5 seconds in boiling water pops them open.

Clamming way out on the low tide.

                                                        The flowers were so pretty!

 George repaired the fire ring.  Chipped out the old brick and added new metal ring and cement.

                                                                 View from the house.

 George didn't like this couch in the newest vacation rental, so ordered a new one.
                            http://bloomerestates.com/property/hidden-treasure/ is the address.

 Nick has a laser cutter for the vinyl wall words, so fabricated them and put them up.

                                               The name of the rental is Hidden Treasure. 

                                                          New wall décor, new couches.

                                       Even got some time to go fishing with his friend Dave.

                                                       Ilwaco harbor.  Very picturesque!

                                       Visiting over breakfast in the motel on the way home.

More December fun

 

Allison had fun trying to make pigtails for Elizabeth.

It lasted long enough for a picture!

                                     All kinds of cousins at Chris's house after Thanksgiving.                 

December 2014

The men found these 2 sets of deer horns wrapped in barbed wire.  The deer must have been fighting, got caught in the barbwire, and died there.  Sorry about that, but the remains tell the story.

We had a fun December with elk hunters that have hunted so often with us that they have become good friends.  They ended up staying 10 days as it was summerlike for the first part of the hunt, and all the elk stayed on the high mountains. Then it started snowing like crazy!

They brought seafood from Delaware and Maryland and cooked us supper one night.  These were crab cakes.

Richard was the cook.

Soft shell blue crab (a delicacy) you eat shell and all.

My dishwasher went on the fritz, so George and the hunters tore into it, You Tube gave us some pointers, and they got it fixed.

They would walk over in the dark, morning and evening for meals at our house. It was snowing in this picture, so they took some  'light in the window' type pictures.

Plenty of snow here to make the hunters happy! Internet dish in the background in case you wondered! Don't ever get Hughesnet, I might add.

View from the back deck.

Chained up 4 wheel drive was the only way they could get anywhere.

Happy hunters!

The last night of their stay, we exchanged pictures from our cell phones to document the whole hunt.
 

Clayton came to hunt elk during Christmas break.  We had a nice time with him, played games, etc. Shot elk too!

 

 

Fun times with Chet and Chase and the ZN cousins. Reading Calvin and Hobbs.

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