Christmas In Farrr North Idaho

 This wreath was a gift and came from The Wreath Farm.

 Hootie in his Christmas sweater he got from Jessica and David. 

Oh, and his snowman headband. He he.

 This is the manger from when I was a little kid in Pennsylvania.
 Joyeux Noël, Emmanuel!  That means Merry Christmas, God With Us!

 Patrick played ball with the dogs after our first big snow this week.

 This measurement was taken after we had shoveled the deck a few times!

Patrick has a hat that matches mine. They were gifts from Jessica & David.

 Our deck.

 The river.

 Baby Rocket Dog on our night time walk.

The cabin from a distance.

 These 2 photos are of Patrick clearing the snow off of our deck roof.

There were areas that had 4 feet of snow!

 He had a rope around his waist in case he started to fall.  

That didn't happen, thank goodness.

I want to wish all my friends in the blogisphere a 

Very Blessed Christmas!!

lots of love,

Cassie

Shadow Shot Sunday #135 ~ Melting Snow!

Shadows of Pa & Me

Me & My Shadow (I'm hiding!) A View of Our Shadowy Woods Shadows On Our Shed

Baby Rocket Dog Bowing In The Shadows

A lot of our snow melted this week, and freezing temps coated it with ice. Not too much fun for driving on our very steep and narrow driveway. We're supposed to get a bunch of fresh snow tonight, but today Mr. Sun popped out and afforded us some nice shadows.

For more Shadow Shots please visit Tracy at Hey Harriet. Also, wishing all my friends here in the blogisphere a blessed and happy Christmas.

love & peace, Cassie

Shadow Shot Sunday #133 ~ Snow on the Roof

Oh my we have had a ton of snow. Our metal roof lets the snow set on it until it gets too heavy, then the avalanche begins. This is a view from our loft window. I think I got a few shadows in there!

For more Shadow Shots please go visit our hostess from SUNNY Australia, Tracy. Just click HERE.

Snow in Farrr N.Idaho on Cinco de Mayo!!

Can you believe it, snow on May 5th??

It looked so ethereal. Almost ran outside & danced!!

Idaho Winter Wonderland

I have these fresh snow pics taken on January 1st, 2010. Or for those who are as enraptured by numbers as I am: 01-01-10! This was the day before we left our beloved farrr N. Idaho cabin. That's Patrick clearing a fresh path. I just love new snow! Here in Phoenix I have to watch Patrick shovel sunshine.The weather has been quite lovely.

By the way, I've just joined a new blog called Friday Foto. Buddy Jen told me about it. The theme for this month is NEW. I just sent a pic over to Dee, but it probably won't be posted since it is late on Friday night already. Please check out her blog and maybe join in the fun.

Have a good weekend.

love, Cassie

PS- UPDATE: I was a day late, but did get my first photo posted to Friday Foto. I'm so excited. A fun new meme!

More Pictures From Our 1,500 Mile Roadtrip

The trees in N. Idaho were just SO heavy with snow. They would have had more, but it had warmed up above freezing one day last week and rained the original snow off the branches.

This shot was taken just outside of Coeur d'Alene, ID heading toward the 4th of July Pass. There are 3 long Passes you go through to get to Missoula and the Idaho portion of Highway 90 was clear compared to the Montana portion! I guess that's what happens when you don't charge sales tax?

This is a still pic of the Black Angus of Dillon. The video shows how long the line was much better than this.

I shot this video of Black Angus cows just north of Dillon, Montana.(It gave Patrick a break from my backseat driving;<) At around noon there is some siren song that calls these cows to walk northward in an almost perfect straight line. We have witnessed this several times (in the same spot) over the years. I'm not a cowgirl, so don't know if this is normal behavior, but it sure intrigued me. Sorry about the rumbling sound, it's road noise 'cuz I had my window rolled down. I couldn't zoom in on it or I would have lost the length of the line.

Signing off for now. I want to go read some of your blogs b4 I go to sleep. God bless you and keep you safe over the weekend my bloggy buddies! love, Cassie

Ice Like Glass On Highway 90

This was the highway between Missoula, Montana and Butte, MT. on January 3rd. Patrick did an ace job driving! Our little Subaru wagon did good too. Praise the Lord for our safe trip.

More Pictures From Christmas Time

This little penguin pot scrubber was supposed to be part of a gift for my buddy Maria, but one of the poachers(aka dogs) stole it and chewed it a bit, so I had to keep it myself.

Baby Rocket Dog chewing her stocking gift from Auntie Maria. 4 squeekers ripped out of 4 toys in 10 minutes! Hootie never got to make one squeek. :>(

Jessica & David seeing what Santa left in their stockings.

We ladies thought the guys looked so funny in these odd clothing combinations & morning hair that they were worthy of a Kodak moment. Does David have a snow angel popping from his head?

The gifts under the Christmas tree on Christmas morning.

David entertaining the dogs with his alpaca socks. Lucky they didn't chew them up later on!! See the pooches festive neck scarves? I made them from table clothe scraps.

A tired Hootie and a tired Jessica while playing a fun game. Can't remember the name, but this disk gives you a word, then you have to give clues to your partner within a short amount of time before a buzzer goes off. Patrick and I were the big winners that night.

David & Patrick shoveling with a little help from the dogs.

I took this pic of Jessica from the outside of the bay window. The stripes are from my apron.

Baby Rocket Dog loves to romp in the snow. Here she is after "helping" Pat & David.

I caught Jessica getting ready to go skiing. We got her the new long john top for Christmas.

This is Jessica and David before they headed out to Schweitzer Mountain to go skiing for the day. Ahhh, young love. They celebrated their 6th anniversary in August.

Explanations To Follow...

Patrick sanitizing the sink after cutting up the Montana free-range turkey for in the crockpot.

Jessica in the bay window making a feather hair ornament. Hootie had to jump up to help her.

Snowman bell that my cousin Ivy sent me...Minus his nose.

Snowman's (found) nose. This is a good story that I'll tell you all after I get to Phoenix.

Snowman with his nose reattached.

The owl on our deck actually had his original pile of snow knocked off. This was a new pile! We got over 5 feet of snow before we left on Jan.2nd. Patrick and David stayed busy shoveling snow. We had to have our (800ft) driveway plowed 5 times and it could have been done more, but we were paying someone to do it & he was a busy man!! Pat can hardly wait to be up here full time so he can get his own little snowplow. Man toys ya know. ;<)

Jessica & Patrick getting the dogs ready for snowshoeing with Jess & David.

Jessie said the dogs got used to wearing their booties once they got into the deep snow. Jessica & David with the dogs leaving for their snowshoe adventure.