Happy Holidays!

Hope everyone is having a happy, healthy holiday. We're doing fine. We've had a couple snowy days, and several nights with temperatures below zero, but mostly, it's just been beautiful!

Link is still working. He really enjoys his colleagues at OHP. He still enjoys travel, which is a considerable part of his job. I try to go with him if it's someplace we can tack on an additional day or two of vacation. We just returned from a trip to Palm Springs. We were planning on golfing, but Link hurt his elbow (slipped on ice while shoveling the driveway), so we decided to wait until it's doing better before irritating it by golfing. We enjoyed ourselves simply soaking up sun, walking, and eating some delicious food!

Erik's still in grad school in Brookings, SD. He's happy to be helped by his NASA Fellowship - congratulations Erik! Amelia has slowed down some from her dancing business -they're expecting our first grandchild in June! We can't wait! They will be visiting us for New Year's, and bringing our grand dog for a visit. It's always fun to see them!

Karl's working hard at construction (his off-season job when he's not managing the elk/fishing camp), and leaves Friday to visit friends in Paris. I don't envy the construction/guiding parts, but the travel part of his life is grand!

I'm happily retired. I like it here in Belgrade. I haven't gotten too involved with organizations yet, although I have served a year as president of our homeowners association. I plan on leaving that post this spring, and hopefully, will be able to visit Brookings to see the grand baby often! There's always something planned to look forward to, so I'm just sailing along.

Have a wonderful holiday season!

Relaxing Time

Nugs working hard!

Link & Nugget head out for a game of frisbee

Happy New Year!

We had a wonderful holiday. The main highlight was having our sons, daughter-in-law, and granddog home for a great visit! We also enjoyed having our daughter in-laws' parents for New Year's Eve. They were on their way to Arizona (lucky people) from North Dakota, and had to come west before they could head south (remember the snow storm in the middle of the country around New Year's?) More great times!
I hope all of you had happy holidays as well, and were able to spend time with your families.

Linda

Today we had an inch of snow - not enough!







Link and I ate lunch at a cafe in a town smaller than ours, just a few miles down the road. Link was a little uncomfortable sitting under that head.









We saw this bald eagle on the way home!

We had a beautiful evening here on the ridge. What you don't see are the 45 mile an hour winds! We are suffering a serious drought, and there is no snow. Skiers are most unhappy!
We are looking forward to seeing both of our sons, our daughter-in-law, and our grand-dog over the holidays.