hello everyone--it has been quite awhile since i've been on here. lots of great messages and memoirs.
david is in jackson hole for the next 3 days; i just booked a flight for october 26-29 for a long weekend in seatlle with marianna, cindy tencick (my old cascade boss) and jane cropp (another idaho pal)--for 3 out of 4 of us to celebrate our 50th birthdays in 2007!; and i checked the blog. pretty good for an evening after being on the computer at work. i also got a run in with the dogs! this is our favorite time of year for walking--not too hot--but about halfway we get to stop at a little creek and get a drink! even ruby jumps in this creek.
i have been overwhelmingly busy at work. it really has been too much the past year--becasue we are shortstaffed. but we just hang in there.
we've been out camping twice--in the mountains in eagle, and the plains at la hunta. 2 very nice state parks. and david has been riding. i went to boise--and almost got freya convinced to buy diamonds. she was on the edge.....i know it. she was very fun. and overall the trip was sad--but i got to see lots of old buds--and M and C--and that made it fun. marianna was doing pretty well.
david built the small pergola--and this past weekend we dug a new flowerbed around it, and planted grape vines and honeysuckle--to climb up the lattice. and stained it--so it is ready for winter.
we hope everyone is doing well.

love--michele, david and link and rube