Hi -

I have got to figure out how to post pictures on the Blog. Saturday the 13th we woke up to about 8 inches of snow. It is so beautiful! Lynn and I drove in to Walla Walla. There had only been two cars that had gone through before us. It was a nice trip. We hauled four wheels in to Les Schwabs. They wanted to buy them to sell with studded snow tires. It was a good deal because we need the money to help pay for the tires we bought from them the day before. When we got home we had to get ready for Bethan's birthday party. We BBQed salmon and halibit. It was a kick BBQing in all of that snow. Of course I was undercover on the porch, but it was still snowing and it was 32~ out. When everyone left we cleaned up the mess and kicked back in front of the TV. The real excitement came a little later. I wish I could post our pictures of the cougar tracks we found on our front poarch. Steve went out for a smoke about 10:30 and there were no tracks. About 11:15 I went out to check the motion detector light on the garage. As I went out the door I spotted some cat tracks in the snow on the porch. They were about 3 to 4 inches across. Need less to say I didn’t go out to the garage.

Lynn and I started to bed and of course we were talking about the tracks. We decided we need some pictures so Lynn ran downstairs and shoot 3 pictures from the front door.

This morning when I looked at the pictures I was disappointed she hadn’t got the tracks that impressed me so much. As I was looking at the pictures I realized the tracks I had seen were partly covered with snow. The ones Lynn had focused on were fresh. The fresh tracks are smaller that the ones I saw. We had two different cougars on our porch in the space of about and hour and 1/2. Maybe they were hoing for an invite for BBQed fish?

Steve says he is going to start hanging out of his up stairs window to smoke at night. There have been lots of jokes about who has to go outside with a bowl of milk calling "Here Ktty, Kitty" and who gets to take pictures through the window. So far no one has volunteered for the milk detail.