Sharing It As It Comes

What a year!

2010-12-27T17:05:00.000-08:00

HAPPY NEW YEAR! Welocome 2011!

What a year it's been.

For those peeps on Facebook, it's been great keeping
posted about your everyday life.
Miles afar, and time means nothing anymore
thanks to technology.

Kudos to FB, for meeting up with long lost friends and relatives. The best

FB experience my brother George. Wonderful man and family. Haven't
been in touch with him for 32 years! So I refuse to hear any complaints
about FB!

We were blessed to help out a couple of friends with our guestroom
at the beginning of this year, while they decided their next move from Costa Rica.
By Spring, we were busy planting all our garden beds, which yielded just about
everything we ate for six months, and is still producing peas and grape tomatoes!
The Solar Panel system we started in November 2009, finally got installed in April.
Amazing performance so far.

Our summer was spent every spare moment at the beach. We are the truest
Beach Pods you'll ever meet. We call our "Westfalia" the Beach Condo, and
just hang out with b'que's, and reading, flying kites, walking, beading, photo
taking, there's never a dull moment. I mean, if you don't visit the beaches
what's the point of living on the gorgeous southern Oregon coast?

By fall, we had a couple of our beloved pet family pass on, for those of you who knew,
Baby Chi' was only 6 years old, she passed in April,
and Thunder was 14 1/2, we lost her in October.
Her sister Lightning is still with us, and we're both missing those girls very much. Now we have Bizzie, and she is just that, very busy. Boots is still "the Man" of the house, and doing fine.

I turned the big "Six O" so I'm now officially OLD! I feel great, and can move
as if I'm 30, thanks to my devotion to yoga practice. Otherwise I'd feel my age
no doubt.

The mini horses are as easy, loving, and comical as always, and all three are
well and happy.

We continue to have lots of children around, thank goodness for young friends!

Bill continues to be "Mr. Wonderful."

I've posted a couple of videos of Bill climbing and sailing. He'll join all the other

nuts in the New Year's day swim, in our frigid Pacific Ocean.

I've gotten a few paintings done this year, and continue to paint, bead, not much

sewing, (although I have a few projects lined up) cook, practice yoga, walk, and
work part-time at my job. I'm very fortunate to be able to work from home, which
gives me my own schedule. I've also been hired by our community college to teach
jewelry classes. That has been a very fun surprise! For peeps who want to
see my attempts at painting, http://lindalaverty.com/Linda's_Paintings.html

We traveled to outstanding Vancouver, B.C. in June, and are planning to visit
again sometime in May or June. What a gorgeous place,

Bill just saw Roger Waters in his concert "The Wall" at the Tacoma Dome.
He said it was a "bucket list" to do event. Epic at it's least.

Been a very rainy, gray winter here this year, and we got a snow storm! I'll

post this video of that too for proof!

All in all, it's been a great year. Both of us are healthy, happy, and productive.

We continue to look forward to keeping in touch via FB. It has kept us close

to our family and friends.

Don't forget to swing by the "left" side and visit paradise, even when it's raining!

Love,

Bill and Linda

Christmas Day aka Festivus! Postings for our Peeps not on Facebook!

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Had to get these pix and videos up right away. Had a great time with Bill and minis. My present from Bill was getting our miniature horses out to the ocean for the day!

Enjoy and will post more soon!

here are videos! so cute.
My xmas prez from Bill!

Another short film.

Our Thanks for Visiting :)

Some More Fun PIx.

My present to William was this painting, "Bill Climbs" his beloved Mt. Hood.

Off to see Avatar! hugs all around!

WHEW! Is It Over Yet?

2009-12-21T19:33:00.000-08:00

I've been asking everyone in my travels these days, "Is it over yet?" LOLOLOL and....most folks know just what I mean and how I feel. It certainly has been a marathon month.

This week like all of you Peeps, we have been straight out busy. Of course we're even late
with all our mailings to Peeps back east, but, no worries, we haven't forgotten you, just the
older I get, seems the slower I get.

Well, another year bites the dust! 2009 is a blur for us as I’m sure it is for most everyone else. A most wonderful year.

Living on the gorgeous Southern Oregon Coast is still one big Party. We beach all the time, sail, hike, play with our miniature horses, travel around the west, just always things to do, and of course being married to Bill is just one big adventure. If I can survive 15 hard years in the state of Vermont, this is a cake walk.
We get to enjoy all our friends children, and there are so many too! Lots of fun, being Auntie and Uncle to all.

We miss all our friends all over this country, and our guest room is always ready for your visit.
Have a safe and healthy holiday, and may 2010 crawl ever so slowly to savor each precious moment.

Won't keep you long here, just wanted to wish all we love and care about a wonderful
day with each other, and those you love.

here's some pix, worth a 1000 words. hugs, all!
Bill and Linda

HAPPY HOLDIAYS! FROM THE MICRO MINI HORSE RANCH!

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Just wishing all our peeps the BEST ever in health and joy all through 2010!

Bill is safe and sound!

2009-12-14T18:05:00.000-08:00

Well Peeps Bill is safe and sound. I have been getting
phone calls from all over the planet asking if he was one
of 3 climbers on Mt. Hood recently who have died or
vanished. He told me they went risking the bad weather
predicted. He would never go, unless conditions are
perfect.

However I did (as I have in the past) tell him no more Mt. Hood.
It always seems to chew climbers up. There are many other

cascade mountains to climb, and he's made the summit of Mt. Hood at
least a dozen time. So help me out here Peeps, tell him, "no

more Mt. Hood climbs!" This is Bill at the summit of Hood.

In other news around here this week, just the usual holiday
bizzzie-ness, as was I'm sure with all you peeps, weather
was much better, warm, sunny, today wet and chilly.

Bill is almost done working on our horse trailer, it will
be awesome getting the minis to the beach. Lots of pix
will be taken.

Stay safe out there all our Peeps that we love, and we'll
check in with you next week.

Love,
Bill and Linda

December 6, share for fam and friends

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Not liking to take a lot of your precious time especially this time of year, I try and
keep our weekly "share" short and fun for you to visit.
Started weekend with a fun visit via Pizza nite! Tradition here for 12 years now! Friends, and now their fast growing children.

Got all (not much really, just enough for some holiday cheer) holiday decorations
and lights up just in time for the kids delight too.

On Saturday, went for a glorious hike with William, got some much needed shopping done, (without William too!) and took some amateur videos of Bill and Nelson sailing.
Watch Bill and Nelson sail!

On Sunday, spent quite a few hours playing with beads in my playroom, it was way cold here,
so cozied up indoors for most of the day. Then later in the afternoon when it warmed up,
we took the minis for an outing. Phineas is such a Poke. We trailed way behind Bill, Mika
and Trubble.

Came home, and motored out to Chuck's Seafood in Charleston for fresh Dungeness Crab,
and smoke Salmon fins with with baked spaghetti squash for Sunday nite dinner.

Simple fun, simple food, and great friends make "Life Is Good." Just wish we could
live closer to our family. So.....this is the best I can do to keep you close in our lives.

Miss everyone! More next week.

Whirwind Week - blog today Thursday Dec. 3

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Hii Peeps!

Just a quick report. Awesome week. Lots of things accomplished and enjoyed. Yoga, Painting, Jewelry,

walking, and of course household borring duties. Bill had good climbs after work on the rock wall at the gym.

Gorgeous weather here allllll week. Cold in morning, warming right up, sunny, ocean is loud and wild.

Looking forward to my nice 3-day weekend with Mr. Wonderful. Lucky me!

Will update shenanagans after the weekend. Hope all is well with my friends and fam.

smiles,

B. & L.

As It Comes

2009-11-30T10:21:00.000-08:00

It is increasingly coming to my attention each day, how email is falling by the wayside, and communicating through blogs, FB, etc. is the new traveled path to personal and biz info.

Not one to fall behind the technology evolution I just learn
as it comes.

This is just a blogspot for our fam and friends to share for us as well as you when time and schedule permits. It is a bit more detailed than our FB or other network pages.

Just a place to keep my peeps posted as to the events happening in our daily journey here on the gorgeous Southern Oregon Coast.

So let's start today, Monday, November 30, 2009.

I cannot believe it's such a delightful place to choose to live

here on the left side of the US of A.

Had a fun busy weekend with my hub and best bud William.

On our way to Eugene Saturday, stopped at all our fave haunts, Sugar Shack in Reedsport for a coconut doughnut each, Tomaselli's in Elkton for Black Russian Rye bread.

Of course before Eugene, in Cottage Grove, Territorial Seed Co. to drool over what will be in the Spring! Bought a french string bean grinder, I've wanted one for the longest time. Also picked up a hitch Bill found on Craig's list , but...won't fit our little pick-up truck. Back on Craig's list to post the hitch for sale, and look for one that will work. He's working on getting the horse trailer haul worthy for the minis.

Next, Jerry's, Trader Joe's, of course REI, and stopped at the "Columns" to watch peeps climb for awhile.

Nice early meal at my fave The Olive Garden.

Sunday, got to experiment with our new french bean cutter,
made a lovely meal of mashed Cauliflower, French cut beans, and fresh Dover Sole from Chuck's Seafood. All Delish! After a couple of hours sunning and loving our beach enjoyed this good simple food.

I will be posting pix, videos, links, for fun, I do hope
you can find a little piece of time to comment, or even
build your own blogspot. It's fun, and much less time
consuming to have your peeps notified when there is

news you want to share.

smiles, and I thought it would be easier to read in larger print. Thanks for visiting. Hope you find time to leave
a comment.