Thanksgiving at the Georges

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving with the Georges and Eleanor. Lots of good food and company. I suppose you have seen Robben's video of us playing chicken foot. Very funny! We are looking forward to this weekend when we go to Zak and Robben's to go to the dinner theater. Keep you posted. Here's a few pictures that are not very good. Oh, it started snowing on Thanksgiving and continued until Sunday. Big Dog and Little Dog were sooooooo bored. Lynn even made another pecan pie to pass the time.

Friends

We met Howard and Elsa for dinner this week and again stayed out way too late. They live most of the year in Arizona and summers here. Each time we get together, it's like no time has passed. We have been friends for 26 years. People are lucky if they have 2 good friends in their lifetime, because there are so many people that you think are your friend, but are not. So here's to 2 people who are.

Old people should get their sleep

This weekend we went to Pueblo and went to Scott's Birthday party. Lindsay and Scott bought a home so it was part birthday and housewarming party. It was great. Liked their first home together and wish them much happiness. There was the best sushi ever! I ate like a pig. Stayed up way too late. Popeye had to eat a lot of spinach afterwards. Thanks to Greg, Lynn's brother, and Margot, his marvelous sweetie, for letting

us spend the night. Margot has got great taste in decorating. I really like her house, too. Thanks for being relatives plus friends.

Lynn writes about our trips for. Click on this to make them big. Of course I got the last page first! He and Robben are really good writers.

November Blues

Hi everyone! This time of year is kind of boring. Can't go anyway and play outside. I am trying to sub some, but it is slow going at this time. Just getting the applications in is a job. I don't like winter too much, but I love the holidays.

Happy Halloween

As most of you know I have been working part time in a Halloween store. It's been a hoot! There are some people that try on the sexy costumes and shouldn't be. As Robben says, "Halloween is an excuse for people to go out half naked." We ate our usual Papa Murphy's pizza smothered in my home grown tomatoes (which are probably the last until next summer) and watched movies. I couldn't help dressing up. I did decorate Lynn's truck. He bought me a spiny oyster pendent, because it is orange. Oh, Lynn's wearing an aviator scarf along with his devil horns (the flying devil).

Biking in Picket Wire

It was a glorious day so we decided to sneak one one more day in the outdoors. The bikes were loaded and off we went to the Dinosaur Tracks near La Junta. 13 years ago we were exploring with 12 year old Robben in tow. Her maiden voyage on her grown up bike which she still has today. Well the ride down into the canyon has deteriorated. Instead of a nice smooth road, the path is small with lots of rocks and boulders. Needless to say, I walked most of it trying to keep myself and the bike from going over the side. Once in the bottom, most of the trail is pretty mellow with a few challenges. We managed to have 3 flat tires with Lynn crashing once on a steep incline. A couple of skinned places and a bruised ego was the damage. I had 2 of the flat tires cause I was close to out of control going down a small rocky hill. We had to ford the Purgatoire river past our knees to get to the tracks. I don't remember hardly any water the last time we were there. It had rained a lot so the tracks had mud in them so they didn't look as spectacular. Alosaurus and Brontosaurus had meandered along the side of the prehistoric lake before the canyon was formed. Going back up was rough with me walking my bike again with many timeouts. Lynn did ride part of the way up. He's my Popeye. Great Time.