Tuesday, November 25, 2025

All the preparations are underway!

 First!  Happy Birthday to our nephew, Brian Jon!  I'm sure they're celebrating big time in Edmond! 


I'm posting some photos from past Thanksgivings.  It's that time of the year when cooks everywhere are making preparations for the big dinner.  Baking pies and making side dishes.  We're just looking forward to getting to visit with everyone!









That year, Jason was up at the crack of dawn and ready to go to grandma's house.




Wednesday, November 12, 2025

Aurora Borealis

 This is probably the best look we've ever had of the aurora here.  I'm hoping our rain clouds clear so that we can see them again tonight!




The forecast for the rest of this week is rain.  Rain, rain and more rain.  I have no problem with that because it means it's not SNOW.   I'm definitely not ready for the cold white stuff.  I'm driving to Coeur d' Alene today to see another doctor about my back pain.  

Yesterday was my first appointment for physical therapy at Caribou PT, which is located here in Hope.  I am hoping that the therapy is going to get me some relief.  Both Jon and I have had PT with Paula and Kendra in the past and had very good outcomes.  

 With all the rain in the forecast it's time to do some serious thinking about rainy day projects.  Nothing to ambitious though.  Happy Wednesday.

 






Tuesday, November 11, 2025

Tickets - when you left, and when you returned.

This morning we're remembering and thinking of all the veterans in our family and honoring them.  There are dozens of veterans in our family and also many friends who also served. 

I knew we had Jon's plane ticket home from Vietnam, but during our discussion Jon told me that he still had his bus ticket which took him from his home in Missoula to Butte and then by train to Fort Lewis to be inducted into the army.  January 1968.   He has kept it in his wallet all of these years and never told me about it.   Even after more than fifty years of marriage there are still things to learn about each other.  I love it!  I am also very proud of him and what he did for our country.  



This is a photo of his airline ticket home.  His flight flew from Vietnam to Alaska, to Seattle and then almost home to Great Falls, Montana.  Back then you couldn't fly into Missoula so his parents met him there.  September 27, 1970.


Thank you!

They served their country and it wasn't easy.