Very Vacation-Like!

Surrounded by family and loved ones, Mike and I celebrated a very festive and wonderful Thanksgiving.  Seth and Alden made the long trip from Cody, Wyoming and stayed until Sunday.  Dani and Evan joined in for the festivities.  For Thanksgiving dinner, neighbors and renters Russell and Lisa brought their farm-raised turkey; aka, Tom, to the table at a whopping 39 pounds!  Alive, Tom registered in at a whopping 50# weight.  Good living over there at the white house!! 

Aerial views of Thanksgiving Dinner! 

We took on a DYI project making environmentally-friendly beeswax wraps. They looked awesome drying.  Our technique might need to be perfected a bit, but we all had fun with the colored fabrics and results.

The other project, our 8' x 8' barn quilt, is coming along.  Three coats of two different colors have been applied.  It's going to be SO cool, this barn quilt!!  Everyone got a hand at painting and signed their names to the back of the boards!  So great to have group participation!

(Yes, there is a mistake on this board...no worries, it will easily be fixed by the next darker yellow paint!!)

It was a really great break and topped off by an impressive winter storm with a whopping foot of snow that needed moved around in both Freedom and Hoback.  We are all plowed out now, waiting for the next winter round of white stuff.  Togowotee Pass is reported to have received 29" of snow in this storm. 

Saturday, we all watched friend Coralia win her Cutter Race.  She raced neck to neck with another woman driver and we all are pretty sure this was the first time ever two women raced side by side. 

Here she is after the race, cooling off the horses.  Always a fun thing to do on Saturday!  We ate a big burger, shared some adult beverages, and stood in the snow, watching the horses run! 

Here's the whole gang on, as Seth observed, the Ultimate Dude Launcher!  Thanks for taking the photo, Neighbor Pam!