A Wintry-White Thanksgiving

Between the snow on the ground and the frost on the trees, our Thanksgiving view resembled the lair of the snow miser.

Jolene ran an early morning Turkey Trot race, and then spent the rest of the day cooking a magnificent feast.  We had another teacher Jolene had worked with over for dinner, and stuffed ourselves with turkey and dressing.


The fog has been persistent this year, Sometimes you can watch the fog bank roll in (or out) across the hayflats.  I caught this picture after it rolled out and formed wave tops across the top of the fog bank framing the bottom of the mountains.


This moose enjoyed the cover the fog provided, and took a stroll in the low visibility below the bluff. We've had more wind storms than usual, but they haven't lasted as long as expected.  Previously, you could count on a strong blowdown from the glacier hitting you with three days of 50-80 mph winds, but this year they only seem to last for a night at a time, but there's been more of them than usual - so I guess it all evens out.






The wind swept yard provides slick conditions and makes sledding a favorite past-time for the boys.


Of course, eventually one of them will tire of sledding and find the best opportunity to start a snowball fight (which is a challenge with dry cold snow that doesn't pack well).


Snowball fight - direct hit.


Instant retaliation.  Landon might be bigger, but Grayson is determined.



Dino feels at home in a world of snow and ice, once again.  This weeks' low temps have been around zero, occasionally dipping into the negatives, but about average for the most part.  Next week is forecast to warm up into the 20's, and maybe even 30 for a day or two.  Hopefully it won't get above freezing, or else we'll have some ice to deal with each morning.


After the boys finish sledding, we warmed up with some hot chocolate, and then it was time to put up the tree.






They had all the ornaments added onto the tree by dark.  We're down to just over 6 hours of daylight each day, and over the next month we'll dip down to a minimum of about 4.5 hours of daylight each day, before we start to gain light again in late December.

We finally got most of our pictures hung this weekend, but we left quite a bit of room on the walls for new items that we happen across over the next year or so.  Many of the pictures we've carried with us on our 11 moves have been retired to storage in boxes in the crawl space - - maybe one day we'll find a place for a cabin and hang some of them there.  For now we have spare wall space, and look forward to shopping around patiently for some unique items to piece together. We have no plans to move, so we have plenty of time to slowly piece it all together.