Summer Dreams

It's been so cold, I am dreaming of summer!! I used to love winter, another malady of aging I guess.

TY and Caleb

I had a few youngins over to make some cookies we had fun.

Brother's

Chuck and Erich,

Mike and Denise

Were getting old! But can still hike.

Barbara and Chuck

Sitting on a rock with a beautiful view and warm air in November!!

Lot's of helping hands made light the work. Dad and Annette making fruit salad.

Beautiful Lake Tahoe

Our family went to Lake Tahoe for Thanksgiving. We had beautiful weather for the most part. Rained the first day we were there. This is a group of them that hiked up above the lake.

These are shots of Hearst castle, quite a sight! Amazing what man will spend his time and money on.

This is the entrance to the main house.

These young men are Clints apartment mates! The girl is Danella and she lives in another apartment with some other girls in the same complex. From left to right the boys are Ted Foster, Clint, Darren Anderson and Britton Anderson.

Clint and I at the Divito's they are very kind to us all and let me stay there while I was visiting

November

Well I spent four days at Newport Oregon, was great. I love being on the coast at least once a year. The ocean is amazing, makes you put things in perspective, we really are just dots on this earth.

Still no camera, but my buds are supposed to send me some pictures via email so maybe I can post some soon.

My Dad got married today, he married our old time friend Annette Roberts. At this time they plan to be at Dad's home for a while , depending on things they may sell it and then go and sell her house and then move who knows where??? Time will tell.

We all plan to be together at Thanksgiving time up at Lake Tahoe. So looking forward to that.

Look who was hanging out in our back yard, before deer season began. I am pretty sure they are all in someone elses freezer now. Was fun to see them though.

August 30,2008

Well we still do not have a camera. So no pictures, we have numerous times said...."oh I wish we had a camera" but so far we have not wanted to spend the money.

All is going fine here. Still have grieving days for my Mom, today is one of them. It is easier than at first so like they say time heals.

We went to Saginaw 1 and were the cooks helpers again. It is fun to do, and gets easier every year as well. Was scary at first when we started, but things go smoother each year as we all know what we are doing (I think!) We miss about three meetings at the convention. So we went to Parma and the weekend of #2 to make up for that.

Our next two weekends are planned, Weddings!! Seems all our kids peers are either getting married or having babies, there were so many babies at convention this year! No Grandkids for us yet, but we are not in a hurry. I just adopt everyone elses!! ha.

Well I will stop before this gets really boring....

Dianna and Brooks
Frank and Cheryl

Uncle Wayne and Weston

The Great and Not so Great Grandmas!! ha, With little Lila

More Reunion Pictures

Lila



Camilla

William

2008 Grow Ramey Fam. Reunion

These are pictures of Willow Lake, the little boy is Myra and Scooters little boy Scott.
So serene in the evenings and it was warm enough to swim in the evening too.
One of the numerous "camp dogs" His name is Harley, but his nick name is Hardly a dog. or something like that.
One of the meals, we did not starve that is for sure.

Marlene and I Kaya-tubing.

Family Reunion

This was at the family reunion last weekend. The weather was great. I will post more pictures soon.

Pictures

Well we have no camera right now, Mike was hiking up a mountain and dropped the camera off a 40 foot cliff! It was very mutilated. So no pictures for a while. I can show a picture of the mountain it was dropped off of.

Remember my pansies??

Remember the picture of the pansies I took. Well the deer ate them down to nothing!! Anyone for a deer steak?

A new addition to our Meeting!

Little Claire, Russ and Alesha Earnests new baby. She is precious.

Joke's on me!

Ha Ha, I called the Hollyhocks, Hollylocks. I honestly could not remember the correct name. I knew that did not sound right, but I could not think of anything else so that is what I wrote. Maybe I was getting it mixed up with Goldilocks. I walked and did water aerobics today. I am very tired. Plus grocery shopping....so bed will feel good when I hit it. Unfortunately I still have to cook dinner.

My flower gardens

Chives blooming. For some reason most of my flowers are purple! I think I will have other colors later.

Lupine.

Irises and hollylocks
More hollylocks

My half wine barrel full of impatients.

Hammaker Mountain.
My lilacs and an old wheelbarrow.

Pansies on my porch.

Come take a walk with me

These are some views I enjoy on my morning walks. I walked 70 minutes this morning.
The Klamath River

My naughty dog after she rolled in a dead skunk! Luckily it was pretty dried out so it was not hugely stinky.
Wildlife tree, there is a nest of starlings in here, I could hear them. That is the mama or daddy not sure which.

Month of May almost Gone!

These deer were enjoying the soft thick grass on the last warm day we had! IT is now only 50* again! I was enjoying the sun so much. I mean the warmth, we still have the sun.

Well it is spring convention time. Dad and my sis left today to go to Mt. Ranch 2. Next week Mike and I hope to go to Walla Walla convention. Hard to believe it is that time of year again. Soon the summer will be gone and we will be going to Fall conventions. Seems strange that we go to two now. When I was growing up we only went to one a year. It is nice to start the summer and end the summer with one though.

Dad is doing better. He still gets very lonely and has some "teary" days, but they aren't quite as over whelming for him as they were. I seem to cry each day at some time or another. Just takes one memory to set me off. I have always dreaded losing my parents and it is as dreadful as I imagined, but also getting easier for me as the days go by.

Our "young men" are all busy, doing well or seem to be anyway. Clint is hoping to head for San Luis Obispo in August. He will start school there. He hopes to get a degree in Construction Management. Then his income should be more steady and sure, than trying to be on his own. All for now.