Winter is finally here!

 We had a beautiful winter weekend at the cabin with about 10 inches of snow that arrived on Friday as we were traveling to the cabin.    Saturday was sunny and the river was so beautiful right out the front windows..crisp and cold!    It is finally winter and we took a long walk on Saturday and a long XC ski on Sunday.
It was a dog weekend as we have the Smith dogs for a few days while they are away.  Tess and Sage are Italian hunting dogs ...I could make a joke about them only liking Italian food but they will actually eat anything.  Sage is a counter suffer so you have to watch her every minute.

Life with 3 dogs is more of a challenge than with just one dog.
They all had fun together and really enjoyed to snow.

The birds were all over the feeders and I keep trying to take pictures...this one turned out good.  We have lots of blue jays, nuthatches, sparrows and woodpeckers.  Tess and Sage sat at the window for hours watching them..very entertaining.
I did lots of sewing and Mike worked on his end of the year books...and got them DONE!!  He hates doing this and feels great when it is finished.
We talked about our memories of MLK as it his birthday today...his death was such a part of our coming of age...we were seniors in high school.  Listened to a few of his speech's on NPR...what an inspirational speaker.
Winter wishes to all from the Winter Wonderland of Michigan
Kathy and Mike    and all the dogs