The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2012 annual report for this blog.
Here’s an excerpt:
19,000 people fit into the new Barclays Center to see Jay-Z perform. This blog was viewed about 83,000 times in 2012. If it were a concert at the Barclays Center, it would take about 4 sold-out performances for that many people to see it.
It’s cold here…12*, but still dogs need to walk, and I need to walk, and the little kids like to get out of the house.
While coming back from the upper end masses of Sand Hill Cranes flew overhead….
My still shot was not very good, but at least you can hear their sound.
Linda
What a wonderful couple of days….full of food, family and gifts. My brother and his wife stopped by on their way to sunny California, their car was full of gifts for us. A complete surprise and much enjoyed.
The snow we had is melting down here, but in the mountains it looks like it is staying. As I write this we are in another winter storm watch…Terry and I agree we will take it if it means snow in the mountains.
Our soon-to-be daughter-in-law arrived last night from Grand Cash, Alberta, Canada for a week of visits. She said we are much warmer here. 🙂
Hope your holidays were wonderful. I’m off to visit your blogs now and then back to packing up all my Christmas decorations.
We are heading toward 2013… Boy, does time fly!
Linda
Terry and I, Fuzzy and Boomer, the cats Sam and Monkey, are wishing each and everyone of you a delightful and warm Christmas!
Thank you so much for you friendship and for opening the world to me through your homes near and far!
Once more, MERRY CHRISTMAS!
Linda
Fuzzy and Boomer here…we just had to do this. Mom said it was okay.
Shannon also brought of hats FOR THE CATS!!!
TEEEHHEHHEHAHAHAHAHAH, chorckel, snort, snigger, BAHAHAHAH!
We couldn’t stop laughing….Sammy tried to run outside, but Mom wouldn’t open the door!
BAHAHAHAH!
Monkey just glared and glared at us!!!
Oooo, Whew! Our sides hurt!!!
Fuzzy and Boomer
We are still cold here. I know it is to be expected since it IS December after all.
The Gunnison River is starting ice up.
Our days are awaiting the return of the sun…if we have sun now it is thin sunlight, doing nothing to warm up the air. At some point in January we will have what old-timers called–THE JANUARY THAW–a false feeling of spring.
Nothing to get excited about, unless you are like me —once that happens I get HOPE!
Ever since the 17th of December the sun has been stuck in it’s day length of 9 hours and 27 minutes, with the last day of this reading to be on Christmas Day..then we start gradually increasing. GRADUALLY is the term until sometime in January.
BUT…..changes are taking place —the sun is starting to get UP just a tiny bit earlier staring on the 18th of December…just one minute at a time, so on the 19th the sun gets up at 7:26 then on the 21st the sun rises at 7:27, which goes starts to increase every two days and going to sleep just a tiny bit later.
Slowly, slowly, every so slowly the earth starts to make it’s mighty shift – thrusting itself back toward spring. By December 31, 2012 we will see a day length of 9 hours and 30 minutes, with the sun rising at 7:30 in the morning and setting at 5:00 in the evening, extending our day to 9 hours and 30 minutes!
January and February are bitter cold months, but the days are longer, which helps.
Which, for me, really helps!
Almost Christmas Eve!
Merry Christmas,
Linda
The dogs and I walked around the place yesterday, just for the fun of it.
Just to get out of the house and ‘do’ something.
Although, we were in a winter storm warning and I could see weather all around us, we were not being effected.
But I could see it coming in.
Then it hit….
Bitter cold wind, gusting to over 30 m.p.h. all most all of the night and still going strong. Not much snow, but the snow we have is flying all over the place.
Terry had been working on the ditch, but this took the farming urge right out of him 🙂
Took the need to get outside and ‘do’ something different right out of the dogs and I!
Of course the cats don’t ever really like to go outside anyway.
I think it will leave here sometime late this evening with temperatures falling way, way below zero.
Baby, it’s cold outside! (By Frank Sinatra and Doris Day, of course, although, I know many others have also sang this song.)
Linda
Yesterday a very brisk, cold wind blew the clouds out of the way, leaving us with a very, VERY crisp day.
This morning we are in another winter weather storm watch.
BUT…look at this!!!
As the wind was blowing one storm away from us I saw an extremely rare site.
(At least for me in this part of the world)
A winter rainbow in the west…
I was extremely trilled!
Linda
I’m getting a tad tired of all the clouds
Although, there is snow on the mountains and around us.
Dreary is well….dreary!
But today…this morning…I CAN SEE SOME SUN…so I’m heading out for a walk.
Happy Monday!!!
Linda
Grandpa came out to meet us on our daily walk
What more can a Grandparent ask for?
Linda
