Bob Ross Paint Night

Becca invited us to do a "Bob Ross Paint Night" as part of a date night.  She bought all the supplies (with Nic's help) and had it all set up at Josh & Celeste's apartment.  Bruce & I, Josh & Celeste, Nic & Hunter, Becca & Joseph - yes, Joseph! - all sat around the table with our easels, canvas and paints and put the brush to the canvas. We followed Bob Ross in a YouTube video.  Half the entertainment was listening to everyone's comments as they followed along.  We'd stop the video and try to do what Bob Ross did, and it was hilarious to hear everyone's struggles.  But all the paintings turned out amazing!!  I loved everyone's unique expression.  Celeste definately won for "artist of the night", although it wasn't a competition, but hers was so clearly better that there was no question about that.

And speaking of Joseph - he's back! All of his classes are on Zoom for the rest of the semester, so he doesn't have to be present for them.  I'm so glad that he's back here with Becca!  He gets to stay until the next semester starts in January, except for one day he has to go back and do something at the hospital.  Becca is going to go with him in January for the first two weeks as well.

We sent off our last llama trip for the year this week!  Our customer Jon takes the llamas and along with his hunting buddy, they take the llamas on a boat up the Snake River in Hell's Canyon to their hunting spot.  It's quite a site to see the llamas on the boat.  Last year a river guide company got them on video. Here's a pic River Adventures, Inc. - Riggins, ID took from 2019.  

Another customer, Jared, sent us these gorgeous pics from his trip last week.  X-ray, Oscar and November were rock stars.

Here's my favorite! Wow!

Training Llamas & Halloween

 When Joseph was here week before last, he and Bruce spent some time training llamas. Here they are working with Charlie and Tarzan.

Here's Joseph training Zulu on a lead rope for the first time.

And here is a clip of Tarzan. Wait for it at the end, when Tarzan gets up close and personal!

I love this picture of Joseph and Tarzan (he and Becca's llama):

And Bruce and Charlie:

I got to visit grandkids for Halloween! And I'm including other Halloween pics as well.

This girl voted for the first time!  Good job, Libby!

We had a mini-Cider Festival for Bruce's co-workers last week.

Special shout-out to Angie, who has been Bruce's manager for the last ten years.  Everybody (and their spouse!) wishes they had a good manager, and Angie fit that bill.  Thank you for your character, integrity and skills, and making hp, inc. a great place to work for Bruce.  You will be missed!  (NOTE: She is leaving for another job, not Bruce.)

Our son-in-law Kevin and his brother have started writing music under the name Beta Moose.  They have some merch available, and Jesse and Mary are rocking the t-shirts here!

Petey learned to say llama finally!  Bruce & I are not sure whether we like it or not.  "He said "Mana" for so long, and before that, "thmthamama"  or something like that!  Haha

And here is Libby having a great time dancing!  She said they cleaned up a lot of mistakes after this video was taken.  :)

It snowed the last two nights!  Welcome to WINTER.  It has already melted, which is true to form for where we live in Idaho.  So no worries there.

I have finally learned to be grateful for rest, instead of being sad that winter is upon us.  Hope I can keep that up.  Lightning stiks help me do that.  So grateful for them!

Being able to go to dinner at Costa Vida with these fine people is so fun!  Especially when we had a special visit from Mary and Kaladin.