Tuesday February 16, 2010

 

 

Breakfast with Roy, Deb, and Three Grandsons

…and searching for all creatures great and small

Saturday, February 13

 

 

Our daughter Deb and her friend Roy invited us to go out for breakfast to celebrate my birthday, and arrived with all kinds of goodies – some purchased and others homemade.

 

 

They also brought birthday cupcakes from our “adopted” grandsons David and Zachary.

You guys did a great job of decorating them – and they are delicious. Thanks!

 

 

Because Jordan, Josh, and Nate were still with us, we invited them to go along. Roy and Deb think we should make this an annual breakfast because they don’t get to spend a lot of time with these guys.

 

 

I ordered a bacon and egg wrap (left) expecting a small meal – it came with lots of homefries. Cerwin ordered the special (middle) potatoes, eggs, sausage gravy, and cheese, and Nathan had the biscuit sandwich on the right. He was expecting a sandwich about half that size. The other four had similar meals. We didn’t have to eat for the rest of the day!

 

 

The guys – Jordan, Josh, and Nate – went back to their homes after breakfast…

 

 

…and Roy, Deb, Cerwin, and I traveled some back, woodsy roads, in search of wildlife. We had gone about a mile when I noticed this hawk, and called to Roy, “STOP! STOP!

 

 

There were actually two (Red-tailed hawks – I think) who flew away when we rolled the truck windows down.

 

 

 

 

Pretty winter scenes.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We stopped in a woodsy area where we saw lots of cardinals. At one point we counted seven males.

 

 

We were in an area where eagles are sometimes seen, and were hoping this was one…

 

 

…but we discovered that it was a turkey buzzard. (This is Deb’s photo.)

 

 

We stopped at another area where we frightened a Great Blue Heron.

 

 

The mallards were fun to watch in this creek.

 

 

 

 

We were a bit puzzled by this branch hanging in midair. We figured that it must have been hanging by a fishing line.

 

 

We drove into a farmers lane to capture photos of these longhorn cattle.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We watched these two for quite awhile.

 

 

She was so cute. Deb tried to convince her to come home with us.

 

 

A critter at the end of the farmer’s driveway.

 

 

More winter scenery

 

 

 

 

Ice fishermen

 

 

Laundry drying in the cold, wintry air.

 

 

At the end of our drive, we showed Roy and Deb where we lived for the first four years of our marriage. Jeff and Diane were born during the time we rented this house. After this we built and moved to the house where we currently live.

 

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We had a fabulous time, and want to do this kind of local sightseeing again sometime.

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