Lori's New Horse Hotwire

A run Lori made in Lynden, WA,  December 2012.  Lori says Hotwire is just naturally the fastest horse she has ever been on!  Lots of potential.

Goofing Off

From Lori: Flatbed

Attached is a picture of the flatbed John and I built 

for a brand new   Dodge. It is aluminum with tongue 

and groove deck and we used mahogany   for the sideboards. 

It is for a friend that runs barrels with us in the 

winter and then travels the polo circuit in the summer. 

Hopefully we   get to build more of these! 

-- Lori   

Some Seasonal Activities

Some fun holiday activities:  riding the Santa train on Bow hill, preparing our Christmas tree for indoor survival, and installing risers on our repaired septic system!!!!  Happy Solstice!  Happy Holidays!

December 21

Hold onto your seats!  I''ll see you on the other side of the Apocalypse.

Re: Happy Birthday -- News

Sam writes (in part):

"We are building a 14x14' writing studio that can double as a small guest house. We had Lonnie mill us a huge stack of 4x8 cedar beams, and we're making a sort of Lincoln Log cabin. The foundation piers are down, and the first few rounds of beams. Progress has slowed. I hope to get back to work soon. 

Having Lonnie here is interesting in many ways. Parenting, at this age, is way different than it used to be. I sort of thought it would stop some day. Hah! 

Writing. I had a little book come out from Village Books that is serving as a fundraiser for the state PL position (I had to buy my own book). VB did the production on their espresso machine, but is actually serving as the legitimate publisher, as well, and handles all the money. $8.50 of the $10 purchase fee goes straight to Humanities Washington. I'm just glad to be done with it. See: http://www.villagebooks.com/book/9780986009716    Carnegie Mellon won't be issuing the new book of poems--The Fierce Bird of Memory--until 2014. Meanwhile, Sally and I are working on a prose memoir about our life here on the island and with Brooding Heron Press. It might take a year. So far it's interesting, at any rate, just jotting all this stuff down. I just did a commissioned poem for Artist Trust (did I already tell you this?) that is going to be issued as a small booklet. I'll attach a copy of that, as well. New poems are coming along very slowly. CM wants to issue a New & Selected Poems maybe two years after the next book is out. We shall see . . ."

Lynne, Sam, Me & Julia

Happy Birthday to US!

And, Julia, thank you for hanging in with me the past 43!