Friday, December 30, 2011

Christmas 2011



Christmas 2011 with all of our family! What a glorious time we had!  Unfortunately, at the last minute daughter Sarah was unable to make it the photo shoot.

Gary and Karen with the grandkids.


Our only granddaughter to date - Marleigh

Daniel and Janienne's sons, Trevor, Logan, William.



Daniel and Janienne's gang.


Daniel, Janienne and family.



Conner and his father, Ken Gremillion.


Love this photo! They had even bigger smiles after the Saints won that night.


B.C. and Lori Jo, the newly weds as of April 23, 2011


Daniel and Janienne


Karen and Gary - married 44 years come January 2012



The Alexander clan minus one.



Here we are gathered at Ken's place to watch the Saints game later that same day.




Daughters Lori and Sarah at Ken's place to watch Saints game.

At Sarah's new office. She is now a full-time therapist with her own practice.


My sister Mary and her family below: Amy, Deborah and Jonathan.





The Quilt Cabin - phase I

A space of her own is every woman's dream, they say. I actually do have a sewing room in the house--and a large one at that. It was built for my mother-in-law. 



But several years after our move to the island, my quilt history/textile history library, research files — not to mention my teaching collection of quilts and quilt ephemera — has long outstripped the space and taken over both guest rooms in the back part of the house as well.  






One of the guest rooms.  All the quilts get moved when family comes.


They get moved into this small shed above.


So, it's time to build new storage space just for quilts so that the family can have their guest rooms back!




This will be the view down the driveway from the deck of The Quilt Cabin.





Machines have replaced buggy-whip makers and ditch diggers


Searching for current electrical lines, not unlike looking for buried coins at the beach.



The electrical line comes out of the house at this corner and goes out to the pump house.


Bill Lewis instructs the digger to go down 24 inches.











Where the line to the well comes out from the house, hand digging takes place so as to not damage the line.


A sharp turn is required as the digging heads up the hill.



 The tree roots and salal roots take such a beating but once things settle down, they will grow back.



Rather looks like the Big Guy lost its false teeth!

Stay tuned for the next phase!

Karen





We will celebrate our 44th anniversary in January!


Sunday, June 19, 2011

My Deer Buddies Visit Again

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These guys like to mow my driveway for me this time of year. Just wish they did a more thorough job.


There were two younger ones with the buck. I figured the two younger ones were from last year's crop of fawn's.


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Nice profile of his rack.






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I don't know much about deer behavior. Do the young males of last season only hang out with the older males from the season before them once they leave Mom?







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I make a move inside and he looks up.




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What's caught Junior's attention? See the other young one up above him in the folage?



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Has he spotted a new arrival?




(9) Ah, ha! Another buck of equivalent age!



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They had one little very minor altercation but I think they already knew each other. They continued to graze together for another 10 minutes. There was a fourth one---a second young one----but he was off in the side yard.





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No sparring in this shot. They were just grazing very close together.





(15) Antlers are still very fuzzy. My rodedendrum are the worse for their attempts to rub it off!



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