March
2025

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Dad, with the close supervision of his cat, watches Brodie open birthday gifts.  
On the 6th, Brodie became a teenager!  I couldn't be there in person 
so Mom kindly shared photos of the fun celebration. 		  
   
My niece Kaitlyn posted a fun Instagram of her horses & mules being
fed while they winter on our land.  I stole this screenshot from it. 		 This is a trick Buddy has taught us.  When he moves into this position, we are
to stop what we're doing, say, "Ohhhh", and drop to the floor to give belly rubs.  
   
Buddy was just sure that Rocket wanted to steal his precious piece of deer hide, so he's trying
to find a hiding place for it.  		 Eric tried to teach Buddy to be afraid of the ice by cracking it and having him fall through.
It didn't work out very well.  Buddy only got a little wet and not scared at all.  
   

Buddy, trying to sneak away to the neighbors' house in order to pee-mark all the important areas. 
Eric, being the scale in this photo of the new pipe GLID installed at
the Costich Lake dam this winter.  		  
   
Sometimes, the view into Canada from our driveway becomes so clear 
that I have to stop the car and take pictures.  It's so lovely.  

 

 
   

Eric was burning brush near our house one day, so we made an evening of sitting around the nice fire. 
   
   
Rocket NEVER lays on my lap, not ever! This was precious.  Buddy was growling non-stop so 
I put my hand up for a barrier so that I could enjoy this rare moment of love from my old cat.  
 
One morning we woke up to find there was a crack in the ice, with ducks already enjoying it.  By afternoon the crack was this wide.  By the next morning, the ice was mostly gone.  Hurray!!  
It's very life-threatening for Buddy when it's in the in-between stage. 
 

Lily is a snuggler, she really, really wants to lay close to the other pets but they won't have it.
This is her tactic, lay down a foot away, then slowly sneak random body parts closer and closer.
  Buddy surveys the winter scene from the comfort of his Lay-Z-Boy,
cushioned with a blanket, of course - because upholstery is not soft enough. 
   

Eric took a trip to Florida, which included him having to get up at 2:15am to drive to the airport
in Kalispell.  It happened to be the night of a blood moon, but we didn't see it.

However, our local amazing photographer, Keith Taylor, captured it beautifully.  
Here he forced me to take a sewing break because he was dying for attention.   
   

He also managed to capture Northern Lights on the same night.  I never knew there were so many beautiful sights in the Tobacco Valley
until Keith moved here and started capturing them so well.  
   
 

I'm not sure why Eric felt he needed to go to Florida.  
He thought trading this view for the one at right was a great exchange!  

  
Eric spent two days exploring Key Largo alone, then he was joined by two of his rabble-rousing
brothers for the rest of the trip. Here Jeb, Larry, and Eric are together at last and ready for fun.  		 Eric, maybe wondering if he enjoyed the pre-brother time of the trip better.  Jokes!!  
   
 Jeb, enjoying himself... Eric, thinking it could be warmer.  He's a little bit hard to please.  
   
The guys had many adventures, including a little hike. Beach walks
   
They sighted this manatee in the wild while touring an old decommissioned boat. 
 		 They enjoyed lots of great meals, including the highlight where they ate their own weight in 
seafood at "The Stoned Crab".  
   
Since they were in the Florida Keys, they had to have Key Lime Pie Jeb & Eric, with Eric's version of a smile (because the food hadn't arrived yet!)  
   
   
They spent some time on Key West, where the sunsets are amazing.    
   
   
   
The final evening was spent in Miami. There they enjoyed a Miami Heat basketball game.  
 

 

  

Meanwhile, back at home, Buddy keeps an eye on me. 
  We got him this training collar to make him behave better, but it wasn't 
able to keep him from rolling in goose poop!  
   
He got a nice, thick slab of it on this side.  He was SO happy.  He's feeling a little less joyful now, post-bath.  
   

After Eric got back, we went to a concert in town with Jeb & Amy.  The Mari Black ensemble.  
   And, again with the goose poop.  We go through this every spring.  
   

Our friend Jessica had her 40th birthday at the beautiful Timbers Lodge.  It was a fun party!
  The dress code was "90's Country." The Eash family made it look beautiful. 
   

Eric had a giant brush pile to burn, so Buddy and I came out to watch him get it started.  
Colin, however, tends to take things to their limit!    
  

 

  
 It's going now!   
 

 

"I make fire!"  

 

Trail cam photos of the horses and mules
  These guys are giants.  They are so pretty to watch.  
We just happened to be out for a walk one day when Strite was moving them.  He has a bucket
of grain in the back of that UTV.  		 It caused quite the stampede of grain-hungry mules & horses! 
 
 It got a little rowdy in the back, as mules tried to improve their proximity to the grain. Think of this as a panoramic shot, it's a continuation of the previous picture.  
And then there's the old ones, bringing up the rear.  "Hope there's some grain left when we get there." 
  
 		  

I'm calling it "Moonlight Flight."   I spent forever on the quilting of this quilt.  
 This is a quilt I was particularly proud of.  It was difficult and time-consuming, but beautiful.   
   
This one is adorable in person.  The fabrics all have this shiny metallic sheen
that makes it so cute.  I call it "Buttercream Birthday."		  
   
   
   
 

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