Friday, March 6, 2009

Late Winter Report


March 1 marked our one-year anniversary IN THE HOUSE. It's still hard to believe it's all done and we're living here!

One of Don's winter projects: wade through Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged." Dave Miller in Yakima gave us the book as a going-away present. It's a heavy but powerful message for our day and our country.

I'm doing dog stuff two nights a week. Tuesday night is our agility club night (we've developed eight very active members over the past year) at the local riding arena. Wednesday nights I do a "doggy boot camp," a four-week class similar to my "Leadership Classes" back in Yakima. Major difference: I charge little or nothing for the classes. Much more fun that way!!

Don enjoys perusing "Craig's List" quite regularly. He found his horse that way. Now he's looking for a fishing boat. He's also scouting for a two-horse trailer and whatever other little surprises may call our names.

He enjoys working in his shop, and reloading ammo in the basement for the upcoming cowboy action shooting season.

We recently upgraded to high-speed internet, so we can listen to radio stations all over the world now. We finally get Rush again, and Mariners baseball, and I love listening to the folk music station in Antarctica (!) at night when I'm working on the computer!!

We don't have TV reception yet and don't really want it. So we watch Netflix movies a couple times a week. We started "Grey's Anatomy" a few months back on Netflix and are now into Season Four. Who'd have thought we'd be watching soaps together at night in our retirement years!!

The reservation book is open again. We're expecting Dusty Rosenthal in the next week, and John Jay just about any day. Barb Madsen will be coming over from Yakima for spring break. Let us know when you'd like to come. Don and I will be going to Branson, Missouri, for the All Guard Shooting Team reunion in mid-April, but we'll be home at all other times.