And then there was snow!

We woke up early to find snow flurries.  It is VERY cold again.  I had to wait until noon to get up the nerve to go out to take this picture.  It is windy and much of the snow that was here earlier has blown away.  Lots of cold weather in the forecast. 

Brrrrr in Portland!

Since my last post we have had a busy year. We have continued to take small five day trips with our RV club each month. In June we purchased a new 34 foot Holiday Rambler motorhome. Our final trip in our old motorhome was also in June with our three grandsons to Yosemite. We had a great time hiking and exploring but the favorite activity for all three was our horseback ride in the valley. They all did a great job. Jacob (12) and Jackson (10) rode horses and 6 year old Dane rode Dotty the mule. In August we took our new motorhome for our annual trip to Oregon for Dane's birthday. Jacob and Jackson and my sister Irene traveled with us. We spent four nights on the coast then returned to Portland for a total of 2 weeks. I am cutting back on my work load and we are currently spending the month of December in Portland. Our Portland son and daughter-in-law each run a business that is busy during the holidays. We are helping shuttle Dane from school, to play dates, etc. We are also cooking evening meals. It has really been enjoyable. Our mornings are leisurely. Chig is working on his genealogy book. In addition he brought the rock tumbler to tumble the rocks Dane collected last June near Yosemite. He and Dane started that project yesterday. The rocks should be beautiful and polished in about two weeks. I have worked on a marketing project with Christmas cards next on my list. We will definitely not have time for boredom. There is one drawback to our visit! It is very very cold here! It is also cold in California but not quite this bad. For the next five days some of the lows may be single digit with highs in the low 30's. Fortunately I have been dressing in layers from head to toe. I have asked myself "who goes NORTH for the winter?". Apparently we are the opposite of "snow birds".