FRESH egg

The egg on the right is the one i saw her lay this morning. I am pretty easily entertained, but I thought that was one of the coolest things EVER. YUMMMY!

I actually SAW the hen lay this egg this morning. It was still warm when I took this picture! I went to open up the coop, and she was sitting there, up on a shelf, making some little grunting noises. I watched for about half a minute before the egg just dropped right out. A first for me, it was pretty cool.

Sledding

A twenty five mile drive took us up near Pine, AZ, to the sledding hill yesterday. Warm and sunny, the hill was almost as big as Wimot "mountain".
Here is Doug, getting some good air.
A nice little workout, having to walk back up and all.
Here's Max getting some good air too!
Doug and i went together a few times, and took some nice wipeouts :-)
Down the hill and through the woods...
After sledding, we took another little drive to Mormon Lake, the biggest natural lake in AZ. Cute little town with cabins and camping. Had dinner at the Mormon Lake Lodge-Awesome! We will have to check this place out in the warm weather and do a little fishing.

The full moon is about to set behind Mingus Mountain. The January full moon was the biggest and brightest it will be all year. Last night it was really light out all night. Very cool. With no street lights, The moon is really noticable. I am much more conscious of it out here.

Not a bad sunrise in the front yard!

I took this picture a month or so ago. The moon, Jupiter, and Venus were the closest together they will be for twenty years or so. I still don't know why I'm getting "ghosts" when I photograph at night, but I thought it was a pretty cool shot anyway.

Cats

Tigris, our new kitten is very busy all the time. When I'm on the computer, she likes to sit in front of the monitor, in typical cat fashion. As you can see, Facebook is on the monitor. If you haven't signed up for facebook, I highly reccommend it. I've been connecting with tons of people there. it is a lot of fun catching up with old friends, and staying in touchwith poeple.

Joe is very tolerant of the crazy kitty, who attacks him whenever she gets a chance! They still have little love fests, and last night, they were sleeping together on my bed.

This is not the greatest picture. I took it with my cell phone. Anyway, I had an appointment at The Enchantment Resort in Sedona yesterday. The buyer for the boutique there saw my jewelry in Tempe, and placed a nice order! After our meeting, I decided to take a little hike down the Boynton Canyon trail, which was a half mile from the resort. Since it was an unplanned event, I only hiked for about an hour. I had left the water bottle in the car. It was chilly, but refreshing, and there was snow on the ground in the shady spots. I was sweaty and feeling fab by the time I got back to the car. Gotta remember to do that more often!

the house

I have been slacking on housework lately, getting ready for the art fairs. Now that they have passed, I can focus a little on the house as well as the jewelry. I started a clean sweep of the house a few days ago. We will have a LARGE yard sale when I'm finished. Maybe in a month or so :-) After the laundry room was clean, I moved into the pantry, which is like a hallway off the kitchen, leading to the laundry room. The shelves were pretty ugly-white with country blue contact paper on the shelves. Maybe not ugly to all, but definitely not my style. They needed cleaning, and since they were empty for wiping down, I figured I might as well do something with the.

Here is the after shot. I had some 'mango madness' paint leftover from the "juicy room". I put that into some white trim paint I had laying around, and this is what came out. I covered the shelves with some handmade paper(also had that laying around waiting for a project). They will do for now. Now I will have to paint the rest of the pantry, but I'm going to continue my clean sweep first.