by rakeeter 
Our weather for the whole week of Thanksgiving couldn’t have been any nicer. The Wylies arrived Monday and non-stop hilarity ensued, at least among the Wylie girls plus Li’l r. Jill and Dave both had to work on Tuesday and even some on Wednesday. Jill’s job is really demanding a lot from her right now but hopefully the frenetic pace won’t continue much longer. Continue reading “Thanksgiving”
by rakeeter Recently while sitting at my desk in my room, I saw a fox lope across the backyard. We haven’t seen any foxes around for quite some time. When I mentioned seeing one to Joyce, she said she and Kari had noticed a lot of fox scat when walking around the place earlier in the day. That may mean there are more than one. Continue reading “Fox trot”
by rakeeter 
by rakeeter 
We arrived at our hotel in Cortez, Colorado eleven hours to the minute after driving off from good ol’ SA. Between Cimarron and Taos we encountered falling snow but the skies cleared and we enjoyed driving into the setting sun from Durango to Cortez. Though it was Joyce’s birthday and we’d thought we would have a nice dinner somewhere to celebrate, we were just glad to get off the road and settled for salads at Wendy’s.The next evening we had that birthday dinner at the Destination Grill next door to the hotel, if hamburgers qualify for a birthday dinner. They weren’t average hamburgers so maybe it was OK. Continue reading “On the road”
by rakeeter 
We have had hummingbirds around all summer as usual. There is usually a black chin that takes possession of the feeder and drives off all comers and that was the case this year. We also saw the occasional migrant, especially in the spring. Now the resident black chin has headed south and there are several migrants constantly vying for access to the feeder. These are headed south as well but in the meantime they are keeping us entertained. We even put out another feeder to relieve the congestion in front of the kitchen window. Continue reading “Hummers”