Maybe we have seen the worst of winter. It's finally warming up.

Julia is 89 and still forging through the snow.

This is Chad's dog (Moose), he is half Boxer and half Lab.

Final day at Ben & Rachel's

I built a shoe rack 

Val built this clever enclosure for the kids stuffys.

Barn doors to cover Rachel's Murphy Bed

Val and I are doing little projects for Ben & Rachel. Val made head boards and side 

boards for the bunk beds. I finished up the Barn Door and the closet door today.

Yes, that is a humming bird in a tree in Ben's front yard. 

Don't they fly south in the winter?

I walk this road every day. Damn slick right now.

Wind blown Rainier.

Holiday Grand Kids

Tallia and Carter came over before Christmas

Tallia makes a Nativity.

Washington Christmas

This was just the start.

Big Christmas

Makinze and Valerie go to Wilkenson School. Such a cool vintage experience.

The town is also vintage.

2016 Holiday flavors

My wine experience started as a simple hobby. Each year it has expanded

to more flavors and more bottles of wine. Aside from fermentation and aging,

the process of wine making and bottling requires a lot of work, especially (washing&sanitizing).

I bottled 5 varieties this fall. The Rhubarb was favored among the bottling party guests.

The Crab Apple will never be duplicated, at least not from it's donor tree.

Julia had me cut it down. She is tired of raking up Crab Apples off her lawn.

Holiday Wine Bottling

It begins. 

I still have Rhubarb/Crab Apple/Apricot and Wild Grape to bottle.

Early Christmas for the Russell home residence.

The City of Idaho Falls widened Grandview Dr.

behind our home to 4 lanes. They also created

a walking and bike path.  They had to tear down

all the fences facing Grandview Ln. for worker access.

They built an 8 foot high Cedar fence in my back yard.

It stretches from Saturn to Skyline.