Madison's 2nd Birthday 01/30/11
By Cliff Chamberlin
Here are a few pictures of Madison's birthday party from last Sunday. She was a happy girl until it came time to sing Happy Birthday to her - then she cried her heart out. 2 minutes later and some birthday cake and all was better.
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See's Candy Ribbon Cutting 01/28/11
By Barbara Lawrence
Yesterday Darlene and I left here in the morning to go to a See's Candies Ribbon Cutting for their grand opening in the Southcenter Mall. We were the first ones there but when it came time to take a picture of the ribbon cutting, I had people push in front of me so I couldn't get that picture. Everyone stood in line to take a chance on "the wheel" and I won a 1/2 lb. box of candy. Poor Darlene won a history book of See's - as if either one of us could care less. They had these two race cars there and then the one car was their 1930 Ford which I exclaimed over being it was my birth year. When I was in high school, one of my friends had a '29 Ford Roadster and I got to ride in the "rumble seat" a lot so this was nostalgic for me.
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Des Moines Pier Fog 01/27/11
By Barbara Lawrence
Here are two pictures I took at the Des Moines Pier when we went down there to feed the gulls and this was at 12:30 p.m.
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Fanciful Felines Quilt 01/25/11
By Susie Devries
This is my current quilt project. It's a small lap size, but very bright and pretty. My wonderful sister, Judie, got me hooked on making quilts. I've got a long way to go, but it's fun to learn. I made each of my 5 grandkids quilts for Christmas, and I also have 3 others that are almost completed. This is the most fun I've had since I learned how to do counted cross stitch! I want to make more and more quilts, simply for the enjoyment of making them!!
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Garnet Hill Camping 01/23/11
By Frank & Carol
My son Jeff and his wife Cori plus their two children Bella and Mable [youngest] and I went camping on Friday night and Sat.. We both have 4 wheel drive trucks from when we lived in Durango, Colorado. After those years we are not the least bit afraid of going off road adventures.
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Des Moines 01/19/11
By Barbara Lawrence
I had Darlene with me for my 1 p.m. hair cut appointment and then we stopped back here at the apartments and picked up Linda. We went to Des Moines pier and we each had one of those cheap long loaves of white bread so we got busy feeding the birds. It wasn't long before all three of us had empty bags. When we left there we stopped at Safeway and got back here by 3:40 p.m. It was only 47 degrees and the sun was FULL out with very few clouds but the little breeze made it feel colder next to the water. As you can see from the pictures, it was a glorious sunny day.
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Model Train Show, Tron & Green River 01/17/11
By John & Cheryl Schmit
Our outing today took us to the Pacific Science Center to see the 37th Annual Model Railroad Show. There were several buildings there, each with numerous train layouts. All scales where represented from "Z" to "O". It was fun to see the variety of layout design and how the different model railroad clubs worked. There were 11 clubs represented at the Center.
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Winter & Autumn 01/16/11
By Susie Devries
Here are some pictures of our snow. It was so pretty falling and we ended up with 5" here. Managed to shut Little Rock down pretty good. City kids missed 2 days of school. Some country kids missed up to 4. It's all gone now. The other pictures are of Autumn in her new fleece kitty gown that I made her. She was so tickled that it's so soft and cozy and it has kitties on it!!! I finished it up last night and she just looked at it and said "Oh Gramma!! I love it!! Thank You so much!!" Sure melted my heart!!
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Contest Winner 01/13/11
By Frank & Carol
Carol won a valley wide contest for collecting Aluminum Cans and Glass Bottles for her school where she tutors (Rio Vista). The 2011 city calendar came out for Palm Springs and Carol is the pictured person for October. This picture shows Carol accepting the plaque and check for over $3,900.00 dollars that is going to be used to upgrade the schools technology equipment and buy several new desk top classroom computers.
She was soooooo surprised as no one told her that this was happening. As it turns out, the school principal knew but did not say anything to Carol as he knows that she does everything in the world to shy away from awards or public accolade's.
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Snow 01/11/11
By John & Cheryl Schmit
We checked out another winter storm today. It was a sloppy mess as it came ashore and dumped on the Puget Sound. Our temps were near freezing so some snow accumulated. The back side of the storm is warmer and it's now raining. Snow should be gone early Wednesday. This is a nice storm to pass on to those to the east. It should get colder and windier and make a nice blizzard in the midwest. Enjoy!
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Snow Plowing 01/09/11
By Cliff Chamberlin
I figured that I better get going on the plowing job. Have 5" now by 1pm today and another 5" or so yet to come by tomorrow afternoon. My 450cc ATV - Roscoe - with 50" blade on it did the job without fussing. 10" (of snow) would be a big push for Roscoe. It's 300 ft down to the road. Took me 90 mins to get the job done.
It's 17 degrees now and going down to 5 or so and very little breeze at all. The snow pulls out tomorrow and it turns real cold, with a high on Mon and Tue of +5 and lows around -5. Then on Tue the wind kicks in and rearranges all the snow in a different place.
Havin to much fun!
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