Christmas

We spent four glorious days at a beautiful vacation home in Suncadia. We hot tubbed, skied, played various board games, read, relaxed, skated, cooked and had a wonderful time together.

We stopped for lunch and a visit to nearby Roslyn before departing on our various ways.

Christmas morning at Cherise's. Below, Sylvia really getting into her new doctor's kit and greeting us at the door in her new ballet outfit with 80's style leg warmers. We also saw Sylvia's first Christmas pagent and party.

The Holidays

Thanksgiving dinner at cousin Linda's.

A pre-Thanksgiving dusting of snow brightened the city and made for a peaceful walk along the waterfront.

North Dakota in a Blizzard?

Zeek's Rooster Ranch
Scranton, North Dakota

































Shooting clay pigeons.






































































Jay and Tom were crazy enough to go out in what was billed as North Dakota's worst storm in decades.



















In Zeek's bar/restaurant. Just about the only place to eat in town.

Glendive, Montana


These photos were taken in Montana on the Yellowstone River.

There were quite a few wild turkeys flying out of our way. They are massive. The thought did occur to me that they would make an interesting Thanksgiving Dinner, but the others, the actual hunters, were not interested.

Montana in Fall

Jay, Paulette, Tom and I headed to eastern Montana, then western North Dakota for upland bird hunting season. The 2,200-mile round trip was a bit daunting as we sped down the highway to get to our destination quickly. Our first stop to hunt was Glendive, MT on a very large farm on the Yellowstone River. Then we head to a farmhouse in Scranton, ND where we saw every kind of bird, antelope, rabbit and deer but not many people. During our stay a huge snow/wind storm came through and there was one day that only Tom and Jay ventured out. Seeing them pelted by driven, icey snow, Paulette and I opted to stay in and read/work.
This time of year, the colors all of the way were beautiful -- bright yellow, orange, deep red -- especially against the Yellowstone River and the stark landscape.







Jay and Tom on the Yellowstone River where we stopped to run the dogs -- AJ and Betsy (above photo).
Paulette and Denise on the Yellowstone River (middle photo).
The Yellowstone River is ever present from Butte to Glendive and then we turned south into North Dakota (bottom photo).