Our name was drawn in a drawing at the LDS bookstore in Billings. There is actually two separate figures standing together. These are 12-15 inches tall.

Eagle rock after a dusting of snow!

This was taken looking north from the big lawn. As you can see, it is winterish even if winter hasn't yet arrived!

winter riverbottom scene. I like all four season veiws of this particular scene, so I have lots of them!

I couldn't resist taking a picture of this cat at the edge of the cliff. Its the closest we come to having a "live" pet around.

This is taken from the parking lot at the church this morning December 14, 2011. I think it is really attractive.

This is the quilt I made for Susan. I know she likes chocolate a lot, and this quilt is called Buttermilk Double Layer Chocolate Cake or something like that. It wasn't hard to make except when putting the columns together. I had to line them up so they matched going across. That was interesting, but I think it finally turned out nice. I hope she will be able to enjoy it for years to come.

I found out why I don't do this very often! It takes forever to load a picture and even foreverer to load more that one picture! At the top, the stairs uncarpeted. Below, the stuff from the bedrooms in the family room so that the bedrooms could be carpeted first. Then we had to move all this "stuff" which is not all showing, into the bedrooms so that the family room could be carpeted. Then next pictures show the results.

this is the girl's room with the new carpet installed.

The top picture you should recognize as the boys room, the second is of the family room (note the large mirror hanging on the wall that used to be downstairs in the "cold room"!) and the next is the trimmed stairwell.

This is a picture of the new desk in the family room upstairs. Functional! The books on the upper shelf are all family history stuff...The chairs are a part of David's dining room set! We'll give them up when he wants them!

Ok, I've posted these pictures, but I wasn't able to Load 3 at a time and get the written word at the picture it should have identified. I should just delete and start again but I'm not going to because it takes Soooooooo loooooooooooong. I'll leave the pictures with the hope you'll enjoy and recognize I usually don't know what I'm talking about anyway.

Following are pictures I've taken on my early morning walks around Byron. I'll post some more later, This sure takes a long time! When you get to the end, click on "Older Posts" to get the rest which includes some of the pictures I took when we went to Houston.

From a high point Byron with water tower, a shot of Byron lake with McCollough peaks in the background. Also a shot of snow on block of wood in the back yard.

I'm having trouble placing the verbage! One of these is a picture of the cemetery from a hill above it. Another is eagle rock...I'm sure you can tell which one. and the other is a rock I stood on on the highest place I could be in the sandhills. There I took several pictures of Byron and surrounding area.

On the riverbottom at sunrise. Of course you can't see the sun for the clouds.

Another shot of Eagle Rock

Bags packed and ready to go. The next several pictures are representative of the trip to Houston. Happy to have you along. Enjoy the trip.

A little downtown Houston

Here we have Lexus, Kahressa, and Blake.

above we are leaving the Houston Zoo. The next is the person who will perform the sealing and his wife. They taught the Temple Prep class that Jeff and Amie were in. Of course you recognize Amie, Jeff, me, and Mom in the front.

Jeff and Amie above and Jeff and Mom below.

The picture of Jeff and me was taken outside the Houston Temple. I liked this picture of the temple with the sun behind Moroni.

We did some sight seeing and these are some of the sights. We could buy the one on the right for $875,000. At that price we should have bought both of these. I like the fountain.

I love to sit by the window in the airplane. This picture was taken on our way home from Houston after we left the ground in Denver. You can see clouds out there. After a while that's all you could see and the closer we got to Billings we were surrounded by the stuff!

This is what we encountered on our trip to Houston, but it was on the drive home from Billings when we were getting home. This was taken at the Maverick in Bridger. Our usual stop for gas and...you guessed it...frozen yogurt! Why frozen yogurt on a day like this? Yogurt is frozen and it keeps longer on a day like this! And on hot days it cools you off. and on any day it is just plain good. Addiction???

This is a tropical bird I've been working on. I liked it so well I'm going to do another hopefully with improvements.

Canary for lunch! I carved this bird a couple of years ago but never put legs and feet on it nor did I paint it. The cat disquised as a bird house is something we've had hanging around the house for a long time. I just decided to add the bird to it! I only completed it because I was experimenting with legs and feet made of copper wire. It turned out so well I decide to go ahead and paint the bird and give it to the cat!

This is the quilt Mom recently completed. Nice isn't it!

You should see the other guy! On our way home from Billings on Wednesday evening between Deaver and Cowley we came suddenly upon a deer in the road. He came into our lane of traffic too late for me to effectively stop. I hit the brakes immediately but not soon enough. The deer is dead. We are alive and well, and the car...well you can see the car. We are currently awaiting word from the insurance company to see where we go next. Some damage you can't see, there is fluid dripping out from somewhere so I don't want to drive far. As a result I'm not going to my temple assignments this week. Hopefully the car will be back in working order by next week...but if not...that's the way it goes. And if the car is not enough trouble, the furnace is clowning around with funny stuff. For a while this morning it wasn't coming on at all to warm the house. I've torn into the workings and tightened some connections and that's helped some, but there is still something funny going on with it. I have a call into Sanders Plumbing and heating to discuss options.

As you can see, we had more snow in the last 2 days. It measures 5 inches on top of the pontiac and the same in the driveway. The temperature this morning was -8 degrees. Not as cold as the before mentioned temperature 2 weeks ago, but cold enough! Spring is now only a month away, but we'll probably end up with it being 30 days. At least it is in sight! Other signs of spring...seed catalogs. I might even abandon my vow to NOT plant a garden this year. And I might even plant as much corn as I have before even though we haven't used any that we put in the freezer last summer. There are always bottles to store corn in.

Brrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Just wanted to share the cold with all of you! Hope you are having warmer weather than us, and hope we will have warmer weather soon. The groundhog says we'll have an early spring. It's only a month and a half away. Otherwise it may be as long as 6 weeks!

Mom

I couldn't resist this picture so I took it and am now sharing with you guys. Aint she sweet!