One of the fun things this Christmas was getting snowshoes for Hanna and Craig. Once we’d found one more pair to borrow, we had enough gear for everyone to enjoy a few hours outdoors together!
Jim enjoyed trying out his new camera. He’s on cross-country skis.
Here’s the photo he was setting up!
I’m on skis, too. I prefer snowshoeing but no one else fits my boot size! It was a lot of fun anyway.
Should you *happen* to want to see more photos of Elk Lakes, check out my Flickr account and click on Elk Lakes album. Or you can check out my daughter’s Flickr account or her blog Hanna’s Life is Cool.
Ah, forgot until today that I had photos on the camera from last Saturday that I hadn’t transferred to the computer yet. Must be because we popped them up at Hanna‘s and so it seemed like I’d uploaded them already. We drove along the lake and spotted bighorn sheep. The road was so narrow here…
Last weekend we took two of the grandgirls camping for three nights, our first time without their parents! We might have done all three girls, but our little trailer really doesn’t have the space for that. We had plenty of heat and sunshine (a bit too much for this gramma!) and went to the beach…
 Last weekend we met our daughter and son-in-law for three days of camping just outside Elk Lakes Provincial Park. Two of the days we went for a day hike into the park. It was great to spend the time together enjoying nature and stretching our legs. Oh, how they were stretched…  Here is the map…
I suspected it might be; in fact I forewarned all of us in yesterday’s post. Yes, indeed, the salesman-who-talks was at the shop when I arrived at nine, and he was still there when I left at twelve. Somewhere between then and one o’clock the boss managed to say the final goodbyes. I did have…
I spent a few days earlier this week visiting my sister and her family, who live near Lake Michigan in Wisconsin. Here are a few of the highlights of the trip thus far. We went for a walk at a lakeside state park near Milwaukee, and this gull posed for me. I snapped a bunch…