Ready for the season

The transformation of the parsonage for the season took place this afternoon on the traditional day after Thanksgiving. We are excited!
 

Happy Thanksgiving

The first day of our twenty-fifth year together was a delightfully restful day filled with catching up on football (soccer) for Charles, watching Miracle on 34th Street, and the aroma of the wonderful food we got from Cracker Barrell!

Twenty-fourth Anniversary

Our 24th anniversary occurs this week, so here are twenty-four notables from our life together:

1. We were married in Rockville, Maryland & and at the Walter Reed Army Hospital chapel.

2. Celebrated our second anniversary in Iwakuni, Japan.

3. We have lived on three continents (Asia, Europe, & North America).

4. We've celebrated anniversaries in four different countries.

5. Five anniversaries were celebrated outside the USA.

6. Six anniversaries were in Montana.

7. Our seventh anniversary was celebrated in Newquay, Cornwall.

8. We've observed our anniversaries in eight different states.

9. Our ninth anniversary was celebrated in Vienna, Austria.

10. Ten days in Germany on Belinda's 50th birthday trip.

11. Number of years it feels like we've lived through the pandemic.

12. Number of places we've lived for three months or longer.

13. Thirteen days on our drive back from Italy to Cornwall

14. Number of cars/trucks we've owned.

15. Number of Sadao Watanabe prints we bought in Japan.

16. Number of moves we've made.

17. Our seventeenth anniversary was in a hotel in Missoula, Montana.

18. Together, we've been to eighteen countries.

19. Number of art pieces we have on the walls in the family room.

20. Our twentieth anniversary was celebrated in Montana.

21. Our twenty-first anniversary featured the Christmas bazaar in Corvallis, Montana.

22. Our twenty-second anniversary was spent getting tires.

23. Our twenty-third anniversary was spent in the midst of the pandemic.

24. Our 24th anniversary is this year!

Once more on the links

A new experience

The Rocky Mountains beckon behind the Front Range

Wide open spaces

The gallery on Eldorado #5

Plenty of trouble

Charles took advantage of a beautiful, and blustery day to get in a round of golf on two of the three nine-hole courses at the Interlocken Golf Course. 

Starting the holidays off with color

In church this morning, we shared the flat Christmas trees Charles' mother made last year with the church family. Wow, what a wonderful response!

An online exhibition

Charles is taking part in an online art exhibition hosted by the Biafarin Online Gallery's Exhibizone where fifteen of his paintings are featured. Please visit his Color in Motion page and see for yourself!

Snow!

We had our first dusting of snow overnight, the first since last spring! We're a long way from needing to get the shovel out of storage, but it did make for a nice sight when we woke this morning.