Sell--Sell--Sell

After Jim being forced to retire early and being without income for a year--we really really need to sell my parents house and our house!! We seem to be house poor at this point. So if anyone knows fo someone who needs to buy a house in Lubbock, Texas--we have two!!

Skye

Skye will be 10 weeks old this Friday. She is up to 10 lbs now and thinks she owns the place. Her favorite outing is when we go to Vintage to do storytime with the kids--but going anywhere in the car will do. We got her a doggie seatbelt so she has to sit in the seat--she loves having the top down of course--so the wind can blow in her ears. Yoda Beth has finally accepted her, but Skye knows to keep a wide margin with the cats.

Yoda even came in and sat in my lap last night--kept a keen eye for the dog of course, but she was okay with Skye being here. Boomer on the the other hand-- is still a little miffed about the whole thing--but he will come around, he is slow to adapt to everything.

The House on Queen Anne Hill and the Pendleton Round Up

Picking up my puppy was one of the purposes of my trip but not actually my most important one. I went to visit my Aunt and Uncle. Uncle is my mother's youngest brother. They live in a glorious old house on Queen Anne Hill--a quite fitting place considering my aunt is from England originally.

After a dinner of Chicken Wellington, Auntie Pat gave us all a dance lesson. Karen and Jonathan were learning the Tango

I felt like I had gone around the world after eating Indian, Vietnamese, French and English food while there. Oh and then there was the BarBQ at the Qunicy Farmers Consumers Awareness Day--good old American! My cousin Shirley won the quilt show.

Next on the trip was to see the Pendelton Round Up with Scott, Jo and Dan, a friend of theirs who is a professor at Central Washington University. The "Round-Up" is known for the unique fact that it is a rodeo held on grass, which has quite a different effect on rodeo events. We went the day before to watch the team roping--it is called "Slack"--as in take up the--.

Jo was trying to point out a specific cowboy to me and said, " See there he is--the one in the white hat". I am still trying to find him :)

This cowboy was in first position when he pulled a chair out onto the field and sat down with his hrose to watch the other who were trying to beat him. Scott said, " He was watching his money."