Our "Snow" dog....Kume

This was our Kume when he was a puppy. He was born in a litter under a trailer. Our Tribal Government Offices were located in that trailer on the Reservation. I was assistant to the Tribal Government Manager for the Viejas Indian Reservation-neither of us were tribal members. We believe Kume's father was a Malamute of one of the tribal members who lived on the Reservation. Kume was the only "fluffy" one in the entire litter. All his siblings had short hair. He has been one of two fantastic dogs we have been blessed to call ours. He is almost like a "caretaker" dog now for me and he is my husband's best "buddy". This climate is much better for Kume than the San Diego weather.

We had another dog when we retired here--she's the little black dog with Kume in one of the pictures above (this was when we were still in Alpine, California, San Diego, County. Chewie....was older...became ill and we sadly lost her since being here. We all miss her dearly! Chewie was our "rescue dog" from San Diego, CA. More about her another time....

Click here to see Kume in the snow in 2006 snowstorm

Tenant Lake-Ferndale, WA

Click Here - Tenant Lake in Ferndale, WA

Click on Folder below to see some pictures of myself, my husband Brian, my stepson Chris and his wife Alexandra when we went over to walk around...

Visitors to our property....

Visitors of the furry and feathered variety are welcome to our property. Oh...except cats and squirrels (our dog Kume is NOT found of them).

Both my husband and I were so excited to have this beautiful couple visit and sit awhile in one of our trees on the side of our property. We were so hoping they scouting for property for a nest....I think the Bald Eagle is soooooo majestic and beautiful!

Brrrrrr.....its REALLY COLD here...

Our "Home Sweet Home"

• My husband and I bought this rural property in Ferndale, WA when we retired in 2003. We loved that most of the property was undisturbed trees--the front of the property was cleared enough to build the home. After coming from San Diego, California (Alpine..east of the city of San Diego) we...loved in particular... having so many trees and flowers/plants that we were familiar with from back East. Alpine (in San Diego County) was beautiful, we absolutely love it here now!
  

My Head is Spinning with Memories

It's been a busy few days for me here: (btw... that's me in pic above. Husband, Brian, and I spent a lovely afternoon up at Mt. Baker--I believe it was late October. There's tons of snow up there now! Anyway....

• I got an email from a distant cousin that I didn't know I had....who has information for my on my maiden name-Lackie (sometimes spelled Lackey). He is 44 years old...so around the age of my girls. His name is Bill Lackey and he connects with my great-grandfather--his great-great-grandfather. From there his line connects with a half-brother of my paternal grandfather. He lives in California, is a fire Captain, has been married 20 years, and has a daughter. I am thrilled that someone has finally contacted with me from the line and...as it turns out he is new at genealogy and is amazed that he connected with me....someone from his family who has done genealogy. It's opened up so much new information for him! It's GREAT!! He has also connected with my niece/"genealogy buddy"...Karen (and she is closer to his age). He had read a post I did back in 1996...but he emailed me just to see if he got an answer--he didn't really expect to I think--so was he ever surprised. He had seen my genealogy on Ancestry.com. I love genealogy!!! So I have been at it...genealogy research...all day. Then...


• Tonight I decided to check in on some of my favorite Blogs. First...as always..I look in on "Sweet Savannah's" blog... (sorry, I don't yet know how to "link" things on here. From Sweet Savannah's Blog...I found another great site...from the picture of the bathroom Sweet Savannah said she would like to have. She had a "link" embedded (under "here"to go to the site of the bathroom. I think is was called "Whatever"..again sorry I don't know how to link yet. It has great photography and ideas for making gifts! I'll be following that blog too. Then...


• This all brought me to remembering my earlier years, my children's earlier years, etc. etc. So...that brings me to figuring out how to compile my thoughts in words with pictures and "Blog" them. Wish I could snap my fingers and catch on to all the "techniques" of blogging overnight...sigh. I was quite good with computers and words before my strokes. That along with simply aging...has done "a job on me"...so to speak. But....I have wonderful memories still and I just have to "adjust" to aging...and learn to do it more gracefully...and be grateful for what I can do at age 65---almost 66. [Note to Myself: Make a list of what I want to do..lol].

A Day in late October '08 - at Mt. Baker, WA

Before the mountain is totally covered in snow my Brian (DH) and I went to spend the afternoon in late October '08 on part of the mountain. http://www.mtbaker.us/