Winter has come and a week in Orlando

Winter has arrived, our hunting ponds are frozen and we had one good snow that has stayed on the ground.  Usually, in past years, our snow has melted within a day or two of falling, but the last two or three weeks have stayed mostly below freezing.  So our snow remains.  The kids did have fun sliding down the pond's edge onto the ice in our back yard.  The goats are surviving with longer coats.

We had a break from this with a week in Orlando after Thanksgiving, along with the Catmulls we met the Sookhoos and Hornes there.  We had a nice rental house with a pool.  It had a few cucaraches to remind us of Florida life. We mostly were able to stay home with one day to Clearwater Beach to check out that area. We did go to Disney for an evening with the Christmas parade and had a day at SeaWorld.  The kids were fun to watch and were really good, everyone got along very well.

This Mallard smacked the ice hard enough to make a nice crack pattern.

 



Iva and Meg on the trampoline at Thanksgiving. 


Pictures from the week in Orlando:
 



Amos and Wardie resting up.

 

 



Kitchen table in our rental house.



Zapping aliens



Catmulls, Shawn, Anna, Iva and Charles.

Waiting for the Christmas parade.

Now we are back home to Idaho, seems colder than I remember, Two winters in the DR may

have been too many, permanently changing our thermostats.

 

 





Carrie is now fifteen and has her driver's permit, six months and
she will be on her own to drive.