Wacky Weather

January has been crazy as weather goes with rain early in the month, below 0 (-12) two weeks in and finishing with some freezing fog. The morning of this picture we had a birthday breakfast with our friends Lowell and Liz at the Trout House in Sunriver. This was taken from our table inside the restaurant and shows the Deschutes River still frozen. Note the trees on the far side where the freezing fog has them coated with ice from the day before.











These two are a couple of interesting photos Jane took. The cold dry weather does some strange things with water.


I took this one from in front of our house right before sunrise one morning and really liked it. Jane thought it looked like a forest fire.

We had the kids for Superbowl today so took some pictures and decided I would include some updates of the grandkids.

Of course Landon being youngest gets top billing and as you can see is feeling his oats.

He also gets two pictures. He seemed especially interested in my beard.

Lexy looks older by the day and Kendra will ham it up any chance she gets.

The last two of Landon I included because I liked them and I'm doing the post.

The wacky weather continues. Early Feb. at 4300 ft. in Central Oregon and on the north side of our house, the shady side where we still have ice and snow, at 2:30 p.m. today the thermometer read 62 degrees. I was in short sleeves!

I've been trying to get Jane to post but it has been like pulling teeth, not worth the pain. I'll try to get pictures up more often.

Love to all,

Marty

'07' Is Here!

New Years Eve was eventful. We started off at an afternoon BBQ at the neighbor's house complete with prawns (which I can't eat though Jane enjoyed) wrapped in bacon and marinated chicken. Jane contributed Chinese Chicken Salad and there were numerous other selections from bite sized crab cakes to the usual fare like macaroni salad. Oh, let's not forget Diane's espresso brownies.

Bob (my brother) and Molly arrived just in time for the start of the festivities and barely had time to settle in before the fun began.

Lowell, our neighbor, performed the chef duties and provided the Coronas for consumption. He was dressed in a leather apron which he wore all night and was asked at least once if it were part of a matching outfit he had on under his clothes. He and his wife Liz were gracious hosts. They had a nice fire pit blazing which kept us warm until the sun went down when it soon dropped below freezing.

The intent was to travel from house to house, seven couples in all, but we never got past the first house, ours! We really didn't mind and there was more than enough libation for everyone. We really had a great time meeting and talking with each couple. I know at one point Bob and Charlie (Diane's husband) were discussing being stationed in Europe concurrently, Bob in Germany and Charlie in Italy, and the various travels they experienced at the time. Lowell played piano enlisting others to participate in assisting him.

While our group was very eclectic by nature, originating from various parts of the country and differing professions, we had plenty in common with our love of the area here in La Pine and the surrounding area.

New Years Day, Bob and I took Tilley about 25 min. up to 10 mile snow park on the way to Paulina Lake. From there on the road is closed to automobiles and we xc skied up to about the 5500 foot level stopping on the way to take these photos.

Mid way down on the left in the picture of Bob you can see La Pine with some wood stove smoke hovering above it.

Obviously Tilley is very at home in the snow and had a great run down as we skied back to the truck.

Matt and family joined us for dinner and stayed to watch a wild Boise State overtime victory.