Christmas 2023

 While both Brenda and I have given up on sending Christmas cards, we haven't given up on hoping that you have a great Christmas! 

It's been a year of mixed blessings. The first 6 months of the year was very wet. An unusual situation for the High Desert. Everything grew like weeds, since all we have here are weeds. Brenda seemed to be happy about that as her favorite tool is a weed eater. Since I am such a perceptive and loving partner, I bought her a weed eater with a battery start system.  

With the help of a good friend, and his nephew, we replaced the roofs on the "Cat House" and the Hangar. Both needed the repair, since they were the original roofing from 1978.

 While I didn't get to show Brenda as much of Oregon as I wanted, we did go to Crater Lake, and the Painted Desert. Our biggest problem with traveling was, Brick, our last remaining dog. He has since died. 

We had a lot of company this year and we enjoyed every bit of it. 

Brenda's daughter, Granddaughter, and my niece came a week before our fly-in. My good friend John Hauck, from Alabama, spent 6 weeks or so with us. It was great to have the company. 

The only real downer was the Rabbit populations. There just aren't enough rabbits here to justify killing any of them, so my hawking this year is a bust. The only bad part of that is - will I still be able to hunt them when they do recover. I have been exceptionally blessed with good genes. However, nothing last forever, and at 79 I have been seeing some chinks in my "armor" as of late. My "motorcycle injury" has finally made itself known, but perhaps the worst was finally having to take blood pressure meds. All medications have a physical cost linked to it. I really have no excuse for complaining about it however, nothing last forever.

We have yet to see any snow, other than an 1/8 of an inch a couple weeks ago. I guess we will have to do with Hoar frost this year.

We wish you the best Christmas ever! Cherish your friends, and relatives, and be happy!