returned

Back and burned.

going again

Headed to the hills again. B back Fri.

Pac Forest

Church in Packwood where Pastor Angus and crew are on vacation. We had worship led by a recording artist. It was great.

Then lunch at home and out the door to Pac Forest to walk the "pack" for an hour and a half.

Off to Eatonville for the Lions club fair. They were auctioning off some stuff while Rose and I visited the booths. Polly guarded the car.

we're back

August here already

Rose and I are headed out this afternoon for our first backpack in 5 years. We are going to South Puyallup Camp in Mt R Nat Park via the West Side Rd.

40lb pack, oof da.

Polly is headed to the resort.

oh deer

first the two bucks then the four doe a couple of hours later

smooth

As in smoothy, yum on a hot day. Well, a little dirt shuffling today, then salmon sandwich and a frapichino then who knows. Life is good.

No soup for you

Too much snow for the wildflower hike. Too much snow for the hike period, phoo.

Sunny today

Heading to the Tipso/Naches Loop trail to check for wildflowers.

girls

The girly girls are here and that means ice cream, ya

bird chow

So, that's where it's going.

Another beautiful day.

Beautiful day in Paradise, and Ashford too.

Polly and I walked up the "animal escapement road" above the new county park.

alone

Polly and I are holding down the fort as Rose is off babysitting in Eatonville. I will be productive today.

Sunday

Sunday was the birthday party. It was great to see OLD (and I mean old) friends and family and to have cake and ice cream. It was a good weather day too.

It's in, but I don't win.

Dab burn it.

Got the new fixture in BUT, it's a tad bit thicker so, it hangs down 1//4".

fight

Attempting to replace fixture in trailer. New fixture not same size but only one for 50 miles. GRRRRR

old

man, I'm old. old old old

So, the funeral is at Hauganville on Sunday.

60 they say, I was 55 when I got whacked (by the Ford) and it's all been a blur since then

so it all doesn't count, I'm still 55

I think they call this the denial stage

haircut tomorrow

bit too warm

Decided no camp Muir on Sunday. Church and a bitty hike with friends (and dogs) instead.

Cooler today (Monday), brrr.

Rosie visited the dentist today with a sensitive tooth. Under a crown. The dentist thinks it's allergies.

Stinkin La Z Boy sofa has a bent part. Now, gotta get a new part out of them without giving them the old part until they are swapped out.

Mt Beljica

We hiked up to Mt Beljica with Bronka Sundstrom. Another great hike on a beautiful day.

She invited us up to camp Muir on Sunday.

been a while

Rose and I celebrated our 20th by hiking up to Summit lake and the plateau above it where we were married 20 years ago, July 7th 1990.

It was a beautiful day, a great hike and a great occasion. I'm so happy Rose married me.

Our friends the Farbers, accompanied us and prepared a great dinner afterwards.

Life is good.

drizzle

Drizzled all day, put a crimp in my dirt hucking plan. phoo

Well, summer should start tomorrow with a nice long sunny streak.

Polly

Rose took Polly to the vet this a.m. And I will start shoveling dirt.

A little damp out but not raining and summer is coming tomorrow with a big streak of sunshine and warmer temps.

It's our 20th on Wednesday and we are contemplating a hike to summit lake. Gotta see how much snow is on the trail.

Packwood

Pastor Angus was great, drove rte 123 back from Packwood thru the park and home again.

shopping day

Went to "town" and bought soil amendments (and potting soil), 1x4s (cedar for edging), light tubes and bulbs for the trailer, pvc elbow and glue (plumbing project), fence gate kits (two), 10" galvanized spikes for the edging, RV cleaner/s (roof and bugs), etc, etc, etc.

And home again, home again jiggity jog. Yes, we took our dog.

plants

The transplant (pun intended) is done. Rose and I built a new mound in our front yard for the plants we brought from Graham. They are all plugged in now.

We did Pac Forest again today first.

Muir snow field tomorrow weather permitting.

cold

It's 50 degrees but the sun is coming out and we are headed to Pac Forest to hike a bit.

cloudy

cloudy today, time to transplant plants and fluff up new dirt around Coral Bark maple.

new dirt

Moved dirt yesterday, about 6 yds (that's about 9,000 to 12,000 lbs for you flatlanders). More today when my body loosens up.

And take little Polly for her stroll as her mommy is going to Aleah, Eli and Ethans house.

done

headed home today, checkout at 11:00

I am now going to work on figuring out how to make the morning cup of fake coffee into a "balanced" meal. Protein, fat and carbs. bwa ha ha.

Going to try 6 meals a day, all balanced with high quality protein source and omega 3s and 6s in the fat source and complex carbs yet vegan and raw as much as possible. With that criteria, I suspect not much variety.

another hike in

Mt Townsend trail. Good one and we saw the first big black bear I have ever seen. Glad he/she was in a meadow far below us. woof

Oh yeah, Polly was with us but she missed it, fortunately.

And, not finding the true trail head, we started 1.2 miles below that trail head on an alternate trail head. bonus, there is/was a real neat lake that we would have missed had we found the right road and trail head.

Some big snow patches on the trail and it was/is steep.

About 10 miles round trip, 2,500+ ft gain. Weather started out overcast, that put us in the clouds on the way to the trail. It cleared and we had a great view of Mt Baker, Glacier Peak and Mt Rainier.

back to the 5er

Made it, gotta wonder why a mine there? Closed in the 50's.

Tubal Cane

Headed to Tubal Cane mine hike, wish us luck, 10 mile rt, 2,000 ft gain, offda

hmmm

Looking at my post, I don't see one saying we were headed to Sequim for a week in the 5th wheel.

Well, we did and are. Had to get out of the rain for a bit. Yes, Polly is with us.

Life is good.

still sequiming

ah, who wudda thunk retired people would enjoy vacations. Sure nice and pleasant weather here

Went to Port Townsend (Ft Warden), walked the beach by the Wilson Pt lighthouse and watched the mist (foggy stuff) ebb and flow, dissipate and reform

Listening to an audio book when driving and watching 24 on Netflix in the evening

Beautiful day

What a great day today. Yesterday I unloaded the mulch, oofda. Also, the windowsill was replaced over the kitchen sink by the cabinet guys and they are going to price out an additional cabinet for the trash smasher. That would cut our garbage to one can a month.

Speaking of savings, I'm liking the generic cellular at Walmart more all the time. Verizons network at a discount, ya.

The bright side, I did see an eagle flying overhead. Walked Polly at the park, 3 loops.

Oh, this morning a chipmunk was skulking around on the deck in front. Eagle bait.

so much for that plan

So, the compost is still in the truck and it is still raining bigtime. The wetter the compost, the heavier. Oh well.

It's nice and dry and warm in here as long as we have electricity.

I'm looking at ditching Verizon and getting StraighTalk from Walmart, it is still the Verizon network but a lot cheaper. You have to buy a phone/s from them but they are cheap. We can save $50 to $60 a month and get more minutes.

WoW

It did rain cats and dogs, big cats and big dogs, woof. Polly and I did the park and managed to dodge it.

Time to shovel the wet compost out of the old truck, think some more about the fence post and give Polly a shower with me. Gotta love a walk in shower when you have to share.

Maybe a snack first.

drizzly morning

Weather soothsayer calls for chance of showers. Well at least it's cool enough to work outside when I pump myself up with enough enthusiasm to confabulate a worthwhile project.

ooh ooh, got one, my old truck is full of compost and I need to pick a spot and clear the truck bed for the next haul. oofda

so now it's cold

brrr. Well actually it's just cloudy, I'm cold because I just drank my fish oil smoothy.

That's right, I said it. We put fish oil, among other things, in our morning smoothy. No bat entrails yet though but if things get tough, who knows.

The fish oil is scent and taste free and full of omega 3 and 6 in a superior assimilation form. So, better than flax oil.

whew

78 degrees, what a beautiful day. Hiked thru Pac Forest then a tiny bit of yard work. Spread some top soil over the propane tank. Ready for the county inspection.

72 and Sunny

It is going to be 72 today, woo hoo.

Going hiking to Pac Forest.

Up on the Muir snow field during the weekday, fewer people.

Still gotta figure the fence post out, phoo.

Wii

Hooking Netflix to the Wii was really a no brainier. It did it itself as in the Wii spewed a password that I entered on the computer to the Netflix site and bam, it was done.

Highly recommended.

Ah, Wii night

We received the Wii disk in the mail today. After I figure out the incantation, we will have well over 10,000 videos available for online streaming for $9.00 a month.

No wonder peeps are canceling cable and satellite.

But out here in the sticks, there is no broadcast tv so no satellite, no news. But at least we can go "basic".

On to the voodoo.

bucky

The local hummingbird isn't real bright. I call him bucky, as in buck toothed hillbilly.

Yesterday I had the garage door open and sure enough, there he was, in the garage. A month or two ago, he was in the truck when Rose was cleaning it out and she had to work to get him out.

Bucky is flitting around the windows today, looking for a way in.

Man o Man

Man o man, rain o rain. Big rain.

Found deer bedded down in a little grassy spot.

Rigged the Wii on Rose's big tv, downloaded the photo software and put in her SD card. It is a fast photo browser/slideshow. Must be the fast SD chips I buy, the SandDisk Extreme.

Hung a curtain rod and am messing around with Netflix so that when the DVD arrives tomorrow, we to, or should I say Wii too, will be able to watch Netflix over the big screen for $8.99 a month.

And I re arranged where our telephone is and hooked up a couple of more.

tuff

I didn't realize how exotic square galvalume is. I just can't find it locally (1 3/4"). And the shipping is awful ($35 for an 8' stick) and expensive ($24+).

Maybe it'll be a 2"x2" ripped (1 1/2"x1 3/4")or a 2"2" with two pieces of wood lathe.

ooh, ooh. Gotta look at galvanized pipe with slight less than 2" O.D.

Still raining here. Rose put out some lettuce and an old apple, 5 deer showed up to get it.

more rain-time for fence

Some big rain then little rain then no rain then repeat.

Gotta invent a means of putting up fence post without digging holes, My ground is rock of varying size with a tiny bit of sand. We grow lichen here in the old river bed.

Thinking making paver type concrete gizzies with some means of joining with post (2" square steel tubing) strong enough for job but using 1 sack of concrete per location only.

I have a non flat top so will have to build a mold and pour it upside down, one at a time. 20 in all. First I need to settle on attachment (to post), then build a mold to test.

yechhh

Cleaning up debris and gunky stuff. My cardboard is like mud and stinky. The picking up is like stretching though so it's good for me and free too.

And

And a special thanks to my sister Sue who graciously let us park our rig at her house and picked us up from the Airport.

Maybe I should be more hip and give "big shout" out.

baaack

Back from Sierra Vista (thank you Kristina $ Greg & Jacob and Zachary). It was an awesome adventure, especially the rock formations. Pictures to follow as we unravel ourselves from the absence.

The grass seed we planted prior to leaving is about 2 inches high now.

gone fishing

Going to AZ to see my grandsons and our mutual enemy, their parents:) WooHoo

b'day bash

Rose's birthday bash was a winner. 12 grandchildren enjoyed real cake (and the rest of us too). 8 children and friends and other relatives, we filled the room.

The Pastor of the church in Packwood picked up on the birthday on Facebook and Rose was serenaded in church.

Then late last night, a final serenade. Mountain lions mating (or fighting). Then more, the coyotes barking (really a hideous sound) at the Mt lions. And of course Polly telling them all off.

oh, btw

We made it to the summit of Mt St Helens on Saturday, oofda

Rose's b'day

Rose's 65th, Chili Tai restaurant, Puyallup
Sunday, May 16th, 5:00pm, side room

b there or b square

yuck

more snow and rain

the herd

snowed last night and a herd of elk was sauntering down our street, must have come down for the greens (our landscaping).

back

Rose has returned, yaaah. So has the rain, big rain, booh.

Alone

Rose is leaving for a women's retreat over the weekend. Polly and I will rough it. I am hiking to pebble creek tomorrow morning.

Rose sat

Baby sat, Ethen Ray Haugen today while Alea and Eli went on a field trip to the Museum of Flight.

Poly and I went for a couple of loops around the Ashford Park.

more crud, but less

easing up a little, maybe in the next few days I'll be good to go

still got some crud

it'll be so great when my ears unplug

digging today, then a hike, then rain tomorrow

well

got to 7,000 ft, then this cold kicked my butt, oh well

headed up

Hiking towards Camp Muir today with Rose and John Farber. Gonna get a little tan.

buy Apple Inc.

My AAPL (Apple) options are looking up. New JAN target 480, now 260. An AAPL JAN 370 call option would be worth $110 at expiration and could be bought for $2.30 now.

humming birds

the humming birds have discovered Rose's feeder and have been visiting. They are discovering window glass as well, boom.

still out

Still hacking and ears are plugged but upright now.

re run

gonna see the doc again today, after a week of amoxycillon I wouldn't expect to have phlem coming out of my ears. phoo

2 sik 2 post

Been takin out with sickness, on my back since Tues.

uggg2

This cold is kicking my butt.

ugh

A cold from one of our grandchildren. Haven't had one in 5 years. Worth it though.

awesome Easter

Everyone was here for Easter except those residing in Sierra Vista, Greg, Kristina, Jake and Zack. But we'll see them soon.

little change in the weather

thief

So, that's where the bird chow is going. Dang, nature can be ugly.

6 deer for brunch today

This snow will stick

Now I know

If anyone was wondering, coyotes do bark. One was calling Polly out this morning, no doubt in retaliation from the good barking at they received yesterday.

First the Bigfoot, now the coyotes. Polly is making an enemies list fast.

The coyotes know where we live though. I may have to invest in some coyote be gone (some shotgun shells for my rifle-don't want to kill them).

tough guys

4 of them, looked like teen thugs from Westside story.

Rain.Rain.Rain

Raining and the power was out this morning. We decided it was a good morning to dine out. Breakfast at the Rainier Overland (formerly Moore's) and a long conversation with Ed Iverson, an 83 year old long time resident of the valley.

More rain scheduled.

heading up

Heading up the mountain again. Going above the 7,300 ft from two days ago. This trip, Sharon Farber is bringing a few Hallelujah acres folk that are training for Mt St Helens. John F is off doing something else.

coyotes

Mom brought the two yearling coyotes with her today. They are less gray, more reddish/tannish than her. Couldn't get to the camera fast enough to get all three in the same shot.

snowing this morning

It's snow, then snow mixed with rain, then snow, then................

My new dirt is getting wet :(

Tomorrow, back to Pebble Creek, only 20% chance of rain.

dirt

The 30 yards of topsoil arrived today, oof da!!

The rain arrived with it.

beautiful day, but

First we hiked up to Pebble Creek or actually 100 ft above it at 7,300 ft elevation from the parking lot at Paradise (Mt Rainier), elevation 5,400 ft.

Then we too Polly for a 3 mile walk up the Westside Road in the park.

We had been run out of the park in Ashford. The Sasquatches were holding a grudge from the good barking Polly gave them.

We were hoping for a Bigfoot free zone in the park. Polly, however picked up on something on our walk. Time will tell.

bigfoot

Did I mention the 7,000 bigfoot sightings in the Upper Nisqually area. A lot of them where we hike.

I didn't want to alarm anyone BUT, they are getting pesky and really bugging Polly.

We started the morning off with a coyote and went for a walk later in the day. A nice simple walk, until the sasquatch started in on Polly and she went off on them with a good barking.

You know how those bigfoot hold a grudge though. Now we have payback to anticipate around every bush and tree. While some are looking for Easter eggs, we have to look for Sasquatches.

weather

Mountain weather, sheesh. In the 60's Saturday, rain cats and dogs Sunday, snow this morning turning to rain turning to sun.

sore

Sore and tired after yesterday's snowshoe trip, now I remember why I hate snowshoeing. Beautiful day though, no wind, clear enough to see Mt Hood past Mt Adams and Mt St Helens and sunny enough to get a little color (pink right now).

snow shoeing

Rose is taking me snow shoeing with her and Bronca today. 1st time in 4+ years, should be interesting. Supposed to get up in the high 40s in Ashford, so mid 40s at Longmire and low 40s in Paradise (our destination-Reflection Lakes).

Polly will be home alone:(

Spring

Saturday it is supposed to get up to 60 here in Ashford (elev. 2,000 ft). Rose and I will be indoors at a retreat with the Upper Nisqually River Council, sponsered by the Wa state Dept of Ecology, indoors. Interesting timing.

6 hr event. It's how we will see who is after what for our area. They are on year 5 of aa 50 year plan.

back

Long day.. Met the Upper Nisqually Community Forum chair (the guy who tried to pass the gavel to me) for breakfast in Eatonville at 8:00.

Then dropped Polly off at daycare.

Then dropped off the Dyson vacuum at UPS for shipment to Colorado for repair.

Then:

Bank
Hair cuts
Foot doc
Lunch
Costco
Got Diesel
picked up Polly

home again, home again, jiggidy jig

raining now

So far we have had coyotes (yesterday afternoon), elk, deer and an assortmant of birds visiting today and no people. Yup, we are out in the country.

There have been cougars sighted East a couple hundred yards, North a couple of hundred yards and South a couple hundred yards (two fighting). West, our property goes for a quarter of a mile.

Thinking some kind of sidearm for noise. But what if noise doesn't do it?

Just too much cougar food here.

Test 2

test

biker butt

Back. 30 minutes, 5.62 miles.

bicycle time

The bikes are out, we are going to start working on our bicycle butts today.

elk again

two this time

gravel

whew!!!! Up the animal escapement rd with Rose and Polly then moved about 6,000 lbs of gravel (the last of 18,000 lbs).

Well

Nominated to run/chair the Upper Nisqually Community Forum, an open forum of citizens and local government reps.

Well, after I see what it's about (still unclear on goals for the community), I can gain enthusiasm.

Or maybe I can rally the community for some purpose.

snow

brrr, supposed to stop @ 9:00 (a.m.)

stinkin rock

Well, I moved a bunch (3 hrs worth of shovel time) but there is still some to go. Polly (the doggie) got bored and cold and kept wanting in the house but I made her stay outside with me while I toiled.

Geez, I thought I'd have to get caught robbing a bank or something for this kind of stuff.

rocks

Well, back to the shovel, nice way to stay warm, only about 12 to 14k lbs to go, oof da!

I am looking to get a small loader/tractor as grandchildren bait. I'll have the shoveling done by then, winter when the prices are low.

Sunny

And cold, 24º and sunny, just like Bend OR.

snow

we've got about 3 inches now, brrr

snowing this morning

But now, the sun has broke out.

Going to move 4 yards of washed rock this morning and make a way for a transfer truck of three way top soil for our landscaping, fun.

Eggies

Eggies and waffles for breakfast, yeah.

We watched "Up". Downer for me, how sad to survive your spouse and have unfilled plans. Not a toon for kids IMHO.

blood letting

This morning was fast and bleed. Yes, blood test for cholesterol. We drove, they took, then breakfast after dropping the truck off for air, fuel and oil filters (and oil).

aha !!

I usually stick my hand in the loop at the end on the leash and Polly usually pulls. Putting pressure where?? Right on the ol ulner nerve at the heel of the hand where it joins the wrist.

So this is why I have numb fingers. Good hike though.

Rose did skiing with Judy, all others dropped out. They encountered a silver fox that shadowed them for a while. $200 fine for feeding foxes, he didn't get any.

and we are off

Opted to take Polly for a hike today.

the fingers

Foot doc says indeed, it is the ulner nerve (pinky and 1/2 ring finger. Doubts it's the back pack though, says it's the hiking poles. So, I'll drop the hiking poles when hiking then.

the plan

Going snowshoeing tomorrow. Our friends the Farbers )John and Sharon) are coming up. Also going is Bronka Sundstrom. Just what I needed, an 85 year old woman to kick snow in my face as I struggle to make a comeback. Judy Scavone and another local or two are going as well. Weather forecast is great, we will have fun.

numb fingers

Something new. About 4 days ago, my pinky finger and ring finger on my right hand started going numb. Now the pinky is indeed numb and the half of the ring finger next to it (lengthwise) is also numb. Ons side of a finger, weird, eh?

Seeing the podiatrist this afternoon, maybe he has some knowledge retained from school about the nerves in the fingers. This would be the ulner nerve, no carpel involvement.

My suspicion is the backpack across the shoulder is compressing the nerve.

It is supposed to be raining but the sun is shining in Ashford as we wait for the drywall contractor to recut the attic access door to allow egress for the electrical contractor to remedy the attic space fan that has decided it needs to run 24-7 rather than run off the timer or thermostat as it originally did.

March 1st

Getting spring fever, time to plant something BUT we are about 2,000 elevation so the last frost will be much later that in the flatlands.

Might just be better to go to Naches (Eastern Wa) and buy veggies and fruit.

Our water filter spews 350 gallons of water a night backwashing. It would be a shame not to use that in some kind of watering system. And we have acreage. It's just those deer and elk that are the vermin that would eat/trample whatever couldn't be fenced and fencing is hard to do with river rock to get through for fence post.

ticked again

Polly and I (Ted) went on a hike at Elbe Forest (about 4 miles and new to us), when we got back, Rose spotted a tick on Polly's face (unattached) and grabbed it off and squished it. Stinkin ticks.

Looks like a full moo, beautiful night here in the woods.

Polly got ticked

Yes, it was Polly's turn at the tweezers this morning as Rose discovered a tick on her belly. Got the tweezers and extracted it, it was already dead from the Frontline. Big ol red spot though, just like Rose's. ew.

Must be my turn next but I can wait.

little hike

5 mile loop at Pac Forest B4 the rain. Yup, with Polly and Rosie. And lo and behold, Google Earth accepts Garmin data.

raining and blowing

Nasty day today, brrrr. Good day for hot soup and tea.

finally

Rose got bounced from the jury pool today, yay.

Polly and I got in a short walk with 2 or 3 rain showers, hope we shrink.

And of course, dug some more river rock and sand to fill my propane tank hole, foo.

And again

Rose is off to jury duty again, phoo.

Raining in Ashford, boo. 36F, brrr

Poly and I are currently hunkered down and trying to figure out how to get to the program files on the old Win XP laptop (like a fool, I reloaded the OS).

Jury duty again

Rose had to report in Judge MacArthy's courtroom @ 9:15 this a.m.

Polly and I are having a snow day (no, it isn't snowing or even raining).

Girly Girls

The girly girls (Shadle tribe) came and visited for 3 days, I scored a bit of poison food here and there :)

wow

re loaded OS and it took a week to get back on the old blogaroo

Rose has JURY duty, ha.

more Valentines

Rose had salmon and garlic potaetos, I had Yak burger and garlic potaetos (self defence) and a beer. Then we split blackberry pie ala mode.

We'll put the halos back on now.

Valetines day.

Rose gave me salmon and chile chocolate, I gave her a book (Together at the Top of the World).

Love is a thoughtful gift.

Oof da redux

6.28 miles today, 3870 ft altitude, 2,100 ft of it gain. Rose steered Polly today. Tired out.

oof da

3 miles up and another 3 back down with Polly today, about 1,900 ft gain

today

Rose went skiing with her friend Judy, I am going hiking with my friend Polly

tubing

tubing was great and so was the lasagne

hiking

Went 2 miles up, 1,200 ft gain, 1 hour. Returned in 53 minutes. whew

In the splint boot. With Rosie and Polly.

another attack

nature attacks, first the elk then this under Rose's arm:

return of the elk

There not cute anymore. They came back last night and decimated the Pyramidal's, ate the small Hinoki cypress and started in on the Coral Bark maple.

Stinkin Elk

When we came home last night, Polly was really going off about something in the NE corner of our yard. This morning we could see what, 4 elk had decided to bed down. Around subrise, they rose and mosyied down the road.

boot

The cast is off and I have a boot/splint combo thingy.

Tubing has been moved back a week due to concerns about snow depth.

Rose saw a fox in the parking lot up at paradise.

7 Elk crossed the road in front of Polly and I walking.

The coyote has been back.

more miles

2 1/4" miles on the tmill Fri.

Church in Packwood again.

Rose took the Lightbook Hikers on the snowshoe tour at Mt Rainier.

treadmill

A mile and a half treadmilling this morning followed up by 1/4 mile around the new Ashford park. It is beautiful in Ashford today, warm and sunny - 50 degrees.

Dodging critters

Two, count 'em, two separate elk encounters on the road trip home from the Farber's Hallelujah Acres food encounter last night. Elk #1, in the road, elk # 2, caught in the act of stepping out onto the road. Gotta get a cow catcher.

treadmill

Got in a mile yesterday with little soreness. Going for 2 miles tomorrow, maybe part of it on the path around our new county park in Ashford.

Phase 2 for the park did not get funding. It includes an amphitheatre.

coyote

We had a coyote walk thru yesterday, about 100 ft out. They certainly look more attractive with their heavy winter coats. Guess I should have taken a picture.

Raining

Raining big time. Oh well, I'm in yet another cast so stuck in the chair again. Rain and wind promised for tomorrow as well causing Rose to cancel (probably) her planned snowshoe trip to Pebble Creek (start at 5,400 ft, go to 7,800 ft).

new church

Since we are going in to Puyallup to the Farber's "event" (kickoff for the Hallelujah Acres weight loss program), we decided to forego our 4Square church going (2 hr round trip travel time) and try the local Ashford Baptist church (5 miles away).

off hiking

Rose scheduled a hike at Packforest that started at ten. Must have been great weather there because it was/is great here. Packforest is next to Eatonville. I stayed home with Polly. I still have a cast.

Church in Packwood

We braved the route to Packwood FourSquare Church and were blessed with an awesome service. Pastor Angus has also come into his own as aa speaker.

friends

Our best friends, the Farbers (John & Sharon), came over for New Years eve day and New Years day. Fun as Rose and Sharon joined a few of Rose's friends for snow shoeing and John and I watched some videos.