Winter Rain is Coming Down

Winter is in full swing here in Sacramento. This January has been very blustery with the two straight weeks of heavy fog followed by last week and this weeks crazy winter storms. Heavy rain, strong winds, luckily no power outages as of yet. I am glad that it isn't crazy cold and snowy like in other parts of the country. On the bright side I am forced to stay home and clean around the house, do laundry and also work on school paperwork!

HAPPY NEW YEAR 2010

GREETINGS,

I can't believe that another year has sailed right on by, they come and go so quickly! I was trying to think of the highlights of 2009 and I thought of a couple:

* Sadie (new little puppy)

* New Pickup Truck

* Going on a vacation to see Mt. Rushmore, and the Badlands

* Losing Ms. Lily, Hershey, Jesse all over the summer :>(

* Gaining Adelaide :>)

* Having two wonderfully charming classes of students in a row!

* A good Pear harvest and a somewhat average crop of Walnut harvest.

* Getting together with family for Heather's wedding in May

That is all I could think of for right now so I guess I should load up a couple of pictures!! This is Sadie with a cone on her head after she was spayed two days ago. Also Donna bought this Nash RV a couple of weeks ago, this RV should be a lot of fun in twenty ten!!!!

Crazy Cool Christmas Card

I have a friend at the grange in Auburn, and I discovered his address, so I sent him a Christmas card as a surprise. This is what I got in return...This is a handmade Christmas card, pretty cool don't you think. I wish I had this kind of artistic talent. Inside the card it reads, Merry Christmas! Doesn't this remind you of George's talents?
I wonder why the blue bulb has an eye looking out at the world.. Perhaps it represents God watching over us all?

Kitchen Aid Mixer's Maiden Voyage

So I decided that this Christmas I would just do it! I would buy myself that gift that I have wanted for soooo long. It is a kitchen aid mixer, in a cool color! QVC had them on sale last week for a really good price, with a pretty good color selection. I thought that Cinnamon Gloss was so much nicer than fire engine red. You know that these mixers come in so many cool colors, I have always liked Pink, then Chrome, then Copper, and the have some nice light blue and light green colors also! It came in the mail pretty quick I really didn't expect it until Wednesday the 25th. I opened up the box this morning and decided that I had to make something. Toll House Cookies was the maiden voyage for my new mixer! Yipee!

Walnut Harvest Bounty

Hurricane Sadie

Sweet Adelaide

Welcome to the world, Adelaide! She joined us on Saturday morning September 26. She did have some struggles to overcome in her first few hours. Her mom, Sydney, was really not ready to be a mom yet and she rejected her little donkey baby. But with a lot of help and encouragement we were able to get many mini-feedings for sweet little Addy. We have been bottle feeding her, and the vet is coming out today to test her igG to see how much antibodies she got from her mother. If you are wondering about her name, well, being that her mom is named Sydney we thought of naming her after another city in Australia. Oh by the way, this little donkey was fathered by Hershey who we lost two weeks ago..