 3. Grandma read from "Tiny - The Invisitble World of Microbes" to Zach (10), Thalia (5), Matilda (3), and Clara (7). The laughter was provoked by talk of bathroom microbes, of course.  6.  17. December 24: Birthday dinner (beef tenderloin) at Grandma's house  18. Chefs barking orders to sous-chefs  9. Happy 70th Joan!  10. Bill, Joan, Charlie   12. December 25: Merry Christmas Joan! Pictures from our recent trip to Club Med Cancun  13. Clara & Zach   15. Zippy to Dan: "Two dogs walk into a bar..."  16. Joan and Jen  19. Clara made an elephant diorama for school  20. December 26: To the mountains! It was cold. Here is Clara's pierced ear in frigid weather and Zach bundled up   22. Dinner was at Emmy & Michael's cabin  23. Dan & Jen, just in from the bitter cold  24. Decorating  25. Toasting nothing in particular tonight  26. More presents to open...  27.   33.   35.   37. CONSEQUENCES! A game taught to us (Joan, Bill, Jen, and Em) by Con and Ant Ridge 35 years ago. All 10 of us participated. Rules banning potty talk were relaxed  38. It goes like this (each makes one entry, then folds and passes the paper): 1. Boy's name... 2. met girl's name... 3. At./in/under... 4. He said... 5. She said... 6. The whole world said... 7. The consequence was...  39. After the forms are complete, each person reads one  40.  42.  44.   49. December 27: Another beautiful day. That's Jen & Dan's cabin  50. Rosy finches. They arrive in flocks of several dozen.  51. Bill (knickers from 1975); Michael & Joan   54. Sledding prep  56. Dan worked every day on the sledding run   SLEDDING: Click one or both to start. Each shows 3 runs (Left: Zach, then Dan & Clara, then Thalia; RIGHT: Thalia 3x) 59. December 27: Twenty-one folks arrived for a Loveday party. Here are the three Loveday Matriarchs - Joan, Sharon, Laurie - flanked by a couple of hangers-on  60. The twenty-one in attendance lacked one - Terri Swartz Quartier - who had to work. So these next few pictures are especially for her. Here are Aiden Pascal Robert Quartier, and his father, Jean-Michel, recent immigrants to Colorado from France   62.  63. Grand-pere Robert & A.P. Robert  64. Ben, Deb, Michael, Emmy  65.  66. Grandma Laurie (left) with Tiernan, Robert, Anna, Jen, Olvyn  67. Michael & Thalia (left); Charlie and Ben (right)   69. Melanie and Tiernan   71. Opening presents  72. Ben & Deb  73. Robert & Sharon (45th anniversary tomorrow)  75.  76. Bill & Joan (47th anniversary tomorrow)  77. Thalia   79.  80. Olvyn & Melanie Procella with baby Tiernan, and Grandma Laurie Hunter in the background  81. December 28: Emmy and I had a great ski ("Joan's loop").   82. Out of the woods, onto the beaver ponds.  86. Quiet time   90. 47th anniversary dinner photo bomb  91. Matilda   96. Thalia, snow angel  97. Thalia  99. Matilda with moose creche  100. rosy finches are back  101.  102. December 29: Ski trip with Jen and Dan   104.  105. Nature's own holiday garlands  106. Looking across the beaver ponds at sunset (those are moose tracks)  108. Looking east across the Blue River Valley to Ute Peak in the Williams Fork Range  109. Charlie  |