Tracy and Jerry Krogh!

It has been another dry year....no substantial rain since Dec. So the deer are very thirsty, we have to refill our water trough every day, they drink it down 6 inches!

A friend in Alaska sent me these pictures of beautiful Aurora Borealis in Fairbanks this week!

Finally!

Broke ground on my house on Tuesday! Hooray!

Had 19 deer for lunch on Tuesday!!

We had just filled the bird feeder and the woodpeckers and squirrels came out!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Dinner at the Kokopelli Club, great Buffet!

I put Shadow's booties on......much better! Gorgeous view......Jimmy had to "plow" with the backhoe, so we could get out!

Here is the first day of snow! I promised a friend (Lynette) that I would do a snow angel....Shadow got cold feet, so he "helped" me!

Is this gorgeous! here is one of the elk that is hanging around, just outside tthe clubhouse.

Just a beautiful moonrise!

ow! We came home after dark, the other night, and 2 HUGE ELK were in our front yard! The next night, Jimmy heard a commotion and it seems that Nikki (my dog) had encountered them and startled them so off they scampered, kicking some pipe somewhere....we heard a "clang"!

Friday, our neighbor, Will, decided that he wanted to ski, too. Hadn't been in 15 years.....64 years old, and his wife has decided to take lessons and ski now, too. They have the bug now and Will just bought all new skis, etc. Jimmy is the one in front with the Blue helmet, Will is in the white pants and David the black. Double click on the picture.

Our friend David, from Ft.Worth came to visit, and he and Jimmy skied 6 days last week! Whew! But the snow was great and after Tuesday, the weather was great, too!

We got our first big snowstorm last week! Then another one followed and my car was a foot deep!
Jimmy has been skiing 6 days last week and Yesterday! Another big storm due in tonight! Right now, tho'....it's 50 degrees and not a cloud in the sky! barely sweater weather!

Our newest acquisition!
High Mesa subdivision now has our own fire truck! Not many people can say that! Our friend David, found this used truck for sale in Cleburn, Tx.
It is now sitting in our shop, getting new tires and getting the transmission checked out. The Engine runs great, we'll have it parked here in our subdivision to protect the houses built here.
They are expecting another dry, windy fire season this spring, so were ready! Also hear that the city will rent it from us if need be.

Well. we got some shocking news, the bank president where we are working on our construction loan.....just up and quit last Friday!!!
So we had to start all over with a new guy!
Anyway, Here's pictures of the subdivision. The front gate, the view from our lot, the fountain with the Elk and the clubhouse.
(sigh) Jimmy's mountaintop.

Then, they took a picture of me with a vintage plane and a motorcycle and sidecar, little fuzzy, but it's a picture of a picture!
And NO...my radiator isn't leaking....someone else's was!

On October 15th, the Pine Top Car Club had a car show/airshow here in Ruidoso........
Lots of people, cars, planes.....great fun! There were helicopter rides, glider rides and a Ford GT giving 150 mph + rides, up and down the runway.....complete with motorcycle cop and radar gun to check your speed! Free food, a couple of hundred cars and beautiful weather!

Went to the Cowboy Symposium last night, it's all weekend. Saw the "Texas Playboys" and Mel Tillis! Very entertaining!

In the meantime,
Jimmy, the contractor, is fixing up his mountaintop.
Moving dirt, digging ditches, fixing plumbing, etc.

Last weekend, there was a small car show at Ruidoso Downs, (the Casino and horse race track)......fun day, cloudy, cool, lots of snazzy cars!
This coming weekend is the Cowboy Symposium, Then October 15th is the "Fly in- car show" where I plan to put my Daddy's 442 Oldsmobile in......It's a work in progress!

The Aspencade Rally came to town Sept. 9-11 weekend, with all sorts of crazies! There was a parade on Saturday, with thousands of bikes, if you double click on the picture, you can see that the state troopers were in the parade, too! the one on the front, has an AK-47 mounted on his bike! ONLY IN THE SOUTH! haha.

All the years Jimmy has lived up here, he has never been up the ski run mountain, in the summer.......so up we went 9n the gondola!
Beautiful, green, cool. But once we got up to the top of the mountain...at 12,000 feet....their were lightnening and storm strikes around, so they shut the gondola down!
So, since we were just about the only ones up there, they loaded us up in a Suburban and drove us down one of the ski runs!
One of the neatest nature tours I've ever been on! There were herds of elk on the mountainside, wild turkeys, got to see the snow making machines (blowers), unusual plants....really interesting!