after                     at the Buckeye...

...  now getting ready

for

New Year's at the Oaks!

Monday the 28th

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while moving from The Buckeye to The Oaks

we killed time by making a road trip to Ukiah

and then hiking around the pond....

OMG

remembering the massive Oak !

we haven't been to The Oaks since 2007...

totally forgot how fabulous

the cottage is....!!!

at the very top of the mountain

the views are awesome

this afternoon from the

outside patio

it was so warm i had to

switch out leggings

for shorts!

(thank gawd i brought

tan in a can ! )

this evening

pizza and

monday nite football!!!!

Tuesday the 29th

early morning hike out thru the back gate

past the water cisterns....

then there is the pond below...

then back to our front gate...

and the steep hike back to the cottage...

(hiking waaaay steeper up & down

from here...)

but the view way makes up for it...

this afternoon it poured rain...

read in front of the fire....

views thru the oaks and

of the Anderson Valley below....

PRICELESS!

Wednesday the 30th

fabulous weather today!

hiking w/ the pups...

Christmas day leftovers for lunch!

reading on the chairs overlooking the valley...

the views up here are

awesome...

and soooo peaceful...

New Year's Eve !

this morning we took the trek to the pond

it was kinda cold and cloudy...

but the pups could absolutely care less....

got them all tired out so i could

read in front of the fire all afternoon

after the rain started...

this evening we were waiting for the New Year's countdown on the Dish TV

(Kobe will never make it to midnight...)

making New Year's dinner....

steak, rigatoni & portobello mushrooms

w/ tomatos & spinach in an olive oil sauce...

(ok... i opened a bag of Bertolli)

just opened the Perrier Jouet champagne...

and brought the matching flower flute...

LIFE IS GOOD!

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!

New Year's Day

it pretty much poured rain all day...

so most of the day i watched the fire

watched rookie sleep

and watched the rose bowl game...

when the rain stopped for a bit

we hiked around our 5 acres...

...and i finally found out where they go when they come back covered in stickers...

(Bogey is in the middle of one of the shrubs...)

it's going to take me until our next trip in February to get all the stickers out!