Rain chaincicle?

It was a frozen column on Friday when we got home from school!

You can also see the new outdoor lights I installed last week.  

So deep he has to wear snowshoes to feed the birds!

He was a real trooper yesterday when I asked him to go out and fill the bird feeders.  

 

Snow day number 2!

We're at home doing virtual learning yet again today.  Over 20" of snow fell here yesterday and the school said they haven't been able to plow out their parking lots.

I pushed up some huge piles with the tractor yesterday.

Snow Day!

School is online today and I'm already having flashbacks to when he was online the entire 4th grade school year.  Nothing like fighting to get homework done! 

Skyler on T.V.!

He was invited to the Ninja gym to be featured on the local morning show yesterday.

Waiting to be on.

Mommy took the photo while they were live.

Everyone posed for a photo when it wrapped up.

Links to each live segment here.

What a PITA game!

Since Skyler is in the after school "board game club" again, he gets to take select games home and learn how to play them so he can show the other kids how to play.  He chose "Risk" this week and it is rather difficult to learn to say the least! 

Note the instructions and phone used for reference.  I still don't quite understand the rules.

(Photo taken so Skyler wouldn't cheat while we paused last night.)

A different kind of bouqet.

Altair made a charcuterie bouquet for me for Valentine's Day! 

Delicious!

Weekend walk.

Birds, boat ramps, and a new view. 

Kingfisher.  

Skyler hopefully got a telephoto pic of it using his film camera.

The new boat ramp that I didn't know we needed.

Looking west from atop the Sharon Steel tailings pile now home to the Zions Bank building.

Sleepy dog.

At nearly 15(!) years old, Maizey dog mostly sleeps all of the time these days.  Lucky pup, I wish I could sleep all day some days.

Dying!!!

Homemade Sushi night.

Skyler got a new kids cookbook for Christmas and one of the recipes was for avocado cucumber rolls.  We had extra avocados and a cucumber so why not?

Skyler would only eat the Spam Musubi, he wouldn't touch the delicious avocado rolls.

 

Buh bye balloon!

F-22 to the rescue!

Boom!

The end of an era.

The final Boeing 747 took to the skies yesterday after delivery to Atlas Air.

"Queen of the sky".

 

20 years ago today we lost Colombia.

It was a Saturday.  We were on our way from our new apartment to my Parents' house to do laundry when we heard the news on the radio.  Godspeed Columbia.

Little kids are a lot of work!

That's what Skyler said after Rachael and her Nearly 3 year old daughter Sophia left on Sunday evening.

He was a trooper and really stepped up to entertain her.

 

Bowling on Sunday.

Mommy's childhood friend Rachael was in town and we met up with her at the local bowling alley. Skyler had a great time!

He even got a strike!

Pretty much all he does now.

Skyler cannot put the iPad down and it's getting rather infuriating.

Yesterday morning before Ninja class. He's addicted!

Now we're talking!

This has been a dream of mine since I was a kid.  Hamilton Standard Propeller decals on the ceiling fan! Skyler actually came up with the idea and found the decals after I placed yellow tape on the tips of the fan as a joke.

Looks killer!

(They're actual propeller decals meant for airplanes!)

Quote.

"And when I turned to face grief, I saw that it was just love in a heavy coat."

Yep.

Spotted on the internet. Highly accurate.