Good evening. We’ve had a pleasant few days – wind on Sunday that drifted everything, fresh snow on Monday, and normal temperatures for today. But… I noticed that the temperature is slowing dropping. When I came home from supper it was 4°, now it’s -4°.
This past weekend was special because Seth and Kevin headed up a guys team for cooking supper. Mark Coy, Matt Dean, Chris Williams, and Cody Williams helped too. Their menu of Roast Moose, Mashed Potatoes, Gravy, Green Beans, Rolls, Tea, Chocolate Chip Cookies, and Ice cream turned out superbly. Saturday they cooked and sliced their meat and made their cookies. On Sunday, they had many firsts – making gravy, mixing rolls, steaming frozen green beans. Although comical to watch, they did a really good job and did turn out a nice meal.
Chris, Bekah, and Melissa with their dogs came out for Friday night and part of Saturday. Tommy has been taking the young people to Dot Lake on Friday nights to play basket ball. It is nice for the kids to get out of the house and do something active in the dead of winter. I do appreciate Tommy taking the kids. Hopefully Rob will be allowed to go one of these days. He still needs some monitoring and is not ready for such outings, without somebody assigned to him - for his safety. I have found him a couple of times just sitting in the empty Tab, waiting to be asked to go - of course the van had already left him behind…oh well, he's just gonna have to get used to that am afraid.
Austin Mitchell went home on Saturday. It seems he had a good time while here. My kids were discussing the nice change in “manly” dynamics that Austin brought to the young people’s group.
One of the orthodontists in town had his yearly pizza-pool party for his clients and their families. Three families went into town for that – Masons, Squires, & VanderHarts. Rob is also a client but we had just come back from a 2 week stink in Fairbanks for his tonsillectomy and gas is so exp. that we opted out of this one…sorry Rob!
Annie posed for a photo shoot by Sarahs' Photography course. The theme was "Femininity". They turned out really nice. I think she looks stunning. Thanks Sarah!
Pat and Bethany and the twins flew from England to Wasilla, AK this past weekend. Stacey and Peter posted pictures of the twins when they went to help Pat and Beth get settled in their apartment. I don’t know when we’ll catch a glimpse of the kids. Pat & Gri and their family will be going down to visit them sometime in March.
The Fouse's bunny popped out eight bunnies on Monday night. The Fouse children think it’s really great to have so many bunnies. Hmmmm….. They do grow up, and then what? We told Haley that we liked rabbit stew, but she wasn’t fond of that idea. One of Annie's bunnies went to bunny heaven…Shamar the lovely gray part Rex…not sure why…I hid her from view and will give her a proper burial when the snow thaws…poor Ani. Probably happened when we had that real cold snap of -40. Talking about pets, seems like Petunia de guinea pig is in the family way…hum…65 day gestation period is a long time…hope all goes well.
And, the biggest news of all is that our community will be hosting a youth camp this summer on the weekend of June 9th. We don’t have any details really worked out yet – we will be talking about those soon so we can make plans. We do know that Bro Dan Riccardelli will be coming up to help us out. It’s all very nebulous at this point other than that we are going to do this. More details to follow. This is our second youth camp. The first was the first year Pat & Gri were married. They and Andy Trotter actually hiked up to Fish Lake and helped set up the camp. That was like 25 YEARS AGOI!..Wow...J
Have a great week!!!!