January

Frost feathers

January is that quiet time to prepare for the coming year.  Ours has been snowy and quiet and enjoyable and a time to prepare for sure.  I've enjoyed the daily walks with Millie which take me out to see the beauty of the winter.  No bugs!!  The snow has only been deep enough for snowshoes for a short time--and that youngest boy did make some nice snowmobile tracks in the yard to ease the daily walk for us as well as to ease the pasture wandering on the old horse.  

2020 finds us nearly empty nesting.  The children are all out of school now and gainfully employed.  We are finding ourselves enjoying some time figuring out who we are now that the kids are grown and we are talking a lot about the future. a lot about how we will spend our time and the things that are important to us.  Preparing.  

peacefulness on Stone Bridge Farm

checking in on the neighbor's donkey

enjoying the new snow

riding on the local trail system

Testing, testing, 2020...

It's a new decade!

I've got a new computer and now that I've gone to a Mac it would appear I can figure out how to upload photos to the blog again!  At least that's what I think I can do. Testing, testing.  Is this photo coming through?

Stuff happened in 2018 and 2019.  2019 was the worst year in my life since 1988.  Notable bad years.  SO I'm wicked cool with NOT blogging about them and simply moving forward!  Here we are at Christmas with all of us in one place.  This simply doesn't happen often with 7 out of nine of the people in the picture on different work schedules (rarely anything resembling a 9-5) and 2 grand kiddos with their own schedules of Kindergarten and daycare.  So blessed to find time to gather together this Christmas.