Happy New Year!

We look forward to hearing from you in the New Year!  Let us know how you are doing! All the best in the New Year and always. Marjorie and John

Merry Christmas!

Gertie

Pam Keller, Debby Peckham, Ed Carwithen, Ken Peckham,  Libby Klatt

We helped Gertie celebrate her 99 birthday yesterday. The Wind Song Quintet (local talent) gave a lovely Christmas celebration on Saturday and we'll have a Christmas picnic tomorrow!  Snow storm coming in the afternoon.  Merry Christmas everyone!

Designer Detective Now Available

Designer Detective is at last available for e-readers on Amazon, ibookstore, and Kobobooks. Barnes and Noble is slower and I don't know when it will be up on their site.

Fiona Marlowe, interior designer to the rich and powerful in Washington DC, discovers her wealthy old client dead in his library and helps his Wild West relatives from southeast Oregon solve the mystery of his demise.

If you read it, please review it on one of these sites. I'd love to know what you think, and I welcome honest reviews. 

Horses come home, owls watch

 Today John brought the horses home to our pasture after being across Palomino Lane in the neighbor's pasture for a few months (with their permission, of course). He puts a lead on Yoda, the old girl, and Harriet and Baby Blitzen follow. It works. Gracias a Dios. It will be easier to feed and water them with the temperatures dropping.

Hooter (female)

 Hooter and Hootie watched from their respective berths in the elm and Russian olive trees. Some days now they don't come. Some days only Hootie comes. Today they both came to roost for the day. Will there be baby owls in February?  Stay tuned.

Hootie (male)

Owl scat. They swallow their prey whole then pass the skeletons and fur.

The end of the rainbow

In between rainstorms last week the sun peaked through and a double rainbow formed and seemed to end right on top our neighbor's house. She's looking for the pot of gold.