Almost 9 Months Old Now

Our great granddaughter is almost 9 months old now and I hope she never loses her dimples. Her name is Kaiya.


What a charmer!


When did "Happy Hour" end?

New Quilt for our Newest Great Grand Child

Her name is Lexis Elisabeth Whitman. She was 7 pounds, 7 ounces, and 20 inches long. Here is a picture of the quilt that here Great Grand Mother made for her. She was born to our Grand Daughter Heather in Lewiston Idaho on November 17, this year. Her father, Chris, is serving overseas for our world's freedoms. May the Lord bless all three of them.

St. Joe River, Idaho

I'm tired of the construction around our house so I'm posting a more pleasant picture to look at when you log into my blog.

This Use To Be Our Driveway

Work on the sewer continues. This hole is 8 1/2 feet deep. We would have been housebound except for the grace of our backyard neighbors. There is a gate in the fence between our properties, and they let us park our rigs in their front yard. Thanks to Sean & Debbie.

Our House; You cant get here from there.

They started work on our sewer project again today. We would be house bound, but we managed to get the rigs moved to our back yard neighbor's front yard in time. The way this construction works is, one guy digs the hole and the other guy fills it back in. In between, someone lays the sewer pipe. It's quite an operation and kept us entertained for a good long while. They should be done with the pipes by end of day tomorrow, but nobody knows when they're going to pave. Still, I feel like a little kid watching my Tonka Toys working.





These guys really know what they're doing.

Fishing Enjoyment with Family

I had the pleasure of fishing with my cousin and her husband recently at Newman Lake. I have a hard time getting into a boat so they brought a household step ladder along to help. It works great. We traveled quite a ways to get to a place that you can't get to without a motor. This year's fishing has been slow, but on this day we all did very well. I think, (and hope) that the fishing is just going to get better for the next few weeks. A great big thank you to Rick & Debbie. Debbie is my mother's first cousin. But she's still what I call MY COUSIN.

Livin' On A Dirt Road Again

Last Tuesday, Aug. 31, Knife River, an outfit out of Idaho, started work on the sewer project in our neighborhood. We're on a culdesac so we had to park one of our rigs in our back neighbor's front yard. They're really nice folks. Anyway, getting around is being a bit different then when we had paved streets. They dug up the asphalt on our street with a grinder and several dump trucks. That grinder operator really knows his stuff. We sat on the front porch and watched for about 2 hours. We felt like we were under temporary house arrest. It was entertaining though.