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Three photos taken earlier today as the area got a little bit of snow. Nowhere near the predicted 1 to 3 inches (yet!) on the valley floors, but it looked nice to see some snow falling again. All the photos are views from my 2nd floor area, above is one of the Sheriff SUV's with the dusting of white. Below is looking at a dark truck in the Safeway parking lot to show the snow falling. And the last photo below show the snow sticking on the hillside above the highway that runs through town. Since I took these, it has lightened up and warmed to about 34 outside so all the snow in these photos has melted. Oh well, it's usually just cold from now until near Christmas, then it snows and sticks until next March! One week from right this minute I'll be into my first full day in Missouri. And one month from right now, we'll be in Germany! More later, Tad

I first heard about Soupy Sales dieing this morning as I listened to the 60's on 6 as I was working on breakfast and getting my lunch ready to go for work. His show was often very funny, even more so as I grew up and had a better understanding of his more adult humor. I know I was seeing reruns of his old show even back then, 1970's era, but they were new to me! As I was reading on the Entertainment Weekly website about his death they had clips from You Tube to see. Boy the memories, of his as well as all the shows I remember seeing back in the mid 1960's and on. Pookie, White Fang, funny. I never cared much for the 'pie in the face' gag, but still overall funny shows. Growing up in the areas of San Bernardino, Highland and Redlands California, we watched the channels from the "greater Los Angeles area". I recall Captain Kangaroo on channel 2, Hobo Kelly on either 11 or 13, Sheriff John's Lunch Brigade ("put another candle on the birthday cake, th...

We've been a bit busy the last two weeks, at home and work! Last post was the 7th, that following weekend was the 3 day holiday of Columbus Day for us local government worker types. So we'd decided to take that holiday and really push to get the firewood for winter as done as possible. Stacy's father had been concerned that we might not have enough wood so far so he'd made arrangements to buy four loads of "rounds" from a local person he knows that makes a living of odd jobs including firewood for this time of year. Anyway, he'd delivered the loads of rounds, mostly one and a half to two and a half feet across by fourteen inches long (thick) to the house. It was purely coincidental that a very early "late November" type of weather pattern decided to come through just before and stay through that same weekend. So we get up that Saturday morning..............and it's +15 degrees outside!!!! "Normal" temps for early October are as th...

Stacy actually got some really good photos with her Sony pocket camera while on our recent trip. These four photos were all taken by Stacy. Above was on the I-90 East in Montana on day 1, getting the trailer in side mirror of the truck. The above photo is at a stop near the Yellowstone sign as you drive into the park border from the North miles from a town called "Gallatin Gateway" along the 191 Highway from the I-90. Above and below are photos Stacy was able to take while we waited in traffic as the 191 highway was under complete restoration. Many miles of road base stripped down to the bare dirt, dusty, very rough and loooong waits. The affected road was the main road from the Jackson/Teton area to Yellowstone Park from the South. Made it a really quick decision NOT to go back this way!!

Since our return from the Wyoming trip a little over two weeks ago, the fall temps had already set in in our area. The coolest temps of the entire trip were on our return home. Mid 20's last night and upper 50's in the daytime. I guess the 70's are over till next year!Even snow at the 5,500 foot range of the area mountains, earlier than last year. This morning I finished the design and copy of a menu for a small deli restaurant across from our offices. It changed hands a few weeks ago and the new owner is the wife of a guy from the local motorcycle club we'd been involved with for a couple of years. Since I had done the club newsletter she asked me to do her revised menu. I gave her three example setup copies, she picked the one she liked so I finished and printed them up for her. Last weekend we started in earnest with the winter firewood project. We still had over a cord left from last year but Stacy's father bought 4 pickup truck loads of 14 inch 'rounds'...