| November 2022 | |
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| The first snow of the year arrived on November 2nd. | It was beautiful, but I wasn't ready for the snow to start. | 
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| The snow was so heavy that Kalispell had terrible limb
  breakage and power outages. 
 | Watching a play at Timbers Event Center, "More Precious
  Than Gold."  It was a play about the history of eastern Montana told through stories. | 
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| We have to force Buddy to go out for potty breaks, then he heads straight for the wood stove. | It was a "not terribly cold" day one day so we took that chance to put up our Christmas lights. | 
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| Here is our finished product - ready for
  Christmas! 
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|   The Timbers Lodge looking lovely for Christmas as well. |  | 
| Helping Amy prepare for Jeb's 50th birthday party, which we held at Timbers Event Center. | |
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| There was a large crowd, great food, and the corn hole was very popular as well. | I took about 15 shots to get this fairly decent one of all seven sons plus Dan & Rose. Love these shots! | 
|   A whole line of Casazza men, intent on their corn hole game.  This
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| Eric & Dallas seem a bit skeptical of things. | |
|   Keri, Amy, and Marcie |  | 
| Tralika, Madison, and Aubrey | |
|  |   The birthday boy wanted to slow dance with his entire family, so they are laughing their way through it. | 
| Jill, her husband (I forgot his name!) and Amy | |
|  Happy Thanksgiving!   |  | 
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| Gathering up for prayer | Chow line! | 
|  |   The boys watching football | 
| Buddy has zeroed in on a soft touch for table scraps | |
|   Rummikub rule check. |  | 
| About an hour later, and Buddy is at it again. This time he's hoping for popcorn. | |
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| Amy got the world's worst Rummikub hand ever known to mankind. | New configuration of Casazzas on the couch for the football. | 
|   We helped decorate the lodge for Christmas, here is the main tree. Beautiful! |  | 
| We had one day when all of the snow melted. The next morning - this! | |
|   From The Gathering Place's Facebook page, in the center there is Mike, Jeb, & Eric. |  | 
| Fresh snow is pretty, I'll have to give it that. | |
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| That precious face.  We spend a LOT of time
  together. | Buddy had been enjoying the fire, but Lily is doing her,
  "I'll crowd you slowly until you can't stand it and leave" maneuver. It's her signature move. |