Grandkids – Page 15 – Skelton Sketches

Covering the miles…

Posted on June 21, 2012April 29, 2017 by lindaskelton

It was that time again…to hop in the car and head east…come what may…to see our favorite grandbabies and their relatives…

We love the bright wide-open spaces after being so long on the coast nestled amongst green giants under so often gray skies…

Out here Angus is more than a burger; it’s scenery!

From pasture to patty they go!

Highway miles have their own beauty on the prairies…

…and their own tonic…

But in the end it’s worth the effort and the wait… just to get a few days to catch up with these little people who have captured our hearts…

And then the trek back home…with happy pictures and memories…of homemade play-doh, and swinging and singing and walks, and books and waking up to “Grandmom!”…

And at last, the final ferry home…

Behold, children are a heritage from the LORD, The fruit of the womb is a reward. Ps.127:3

–LS

Snow Country…

Posted on March 9, 2012April 29, 2017 by lindaskelton

Winter may be passing where you are but it’s alive and well in Alberta… We’re enjoying the bright skies and brilliant days…and the new home our grandbabies have just moved to…

…and a pretty little yard complete with sparrow serenade outside the window every morning…

Actually, the yard is an answer to a Grandmom’s little prayer, complete with a little tree I’ve dubbed ‘Chase’s Tree’…

I’ve told him to watch it closely and tell me what happens when the snow melts and spring comes…It’ll be something to talk about long distance, and maybe one day there’ll be a little harvest to pick together…

Our travelling companion this trip… (and no, it’s not Photo Shop’d!)

And here the two big (little) reasons we’ve come out to Snow Country…
Just turned one…

…and big brother turning 3 this summer..

Delightful!

–LS

–2011 in Review–

Posted on December 30, 2011April 29, 2017 by lindaskelton

This was the year to round out my half a century on the planet…and the first year in as long as I can remember that I haven’t (at least not yet) composed a year-end letter…So I’ve been flipping back through old photos to jog my memories…

Another year of many trails and travels—with destinations as close as Scout Mountain and the Ragged Islands and as far away as Alaska and Las Vegas…

January–

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We gained a beautiful granddaughter this year. Which has of course necessitated more travels to visit…

February–

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And as always, I’ve been out and about capturing the seasons in nature…

March–

April

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May

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…walking and praying…

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June

…and watching for seeds planted to begin to grow…

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…and wonders to appear…

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It was a year for a family reunion to celebrate an 80th birthday…

July–

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…and the year for losing my most faithful hiking companion of the four-legged variety, reducing markedly the amount of hiking I’ve done since…

Instead, I became an A-1 stoker for my life companion! Oh the miles we did ride and the sweat and smiles we did share…

August–

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September ended in Alaska, giving my mom a hand in making plans for my dad…He’s now in a private care facility in the city, far from home and mom most of the time…waiting to go Home.

By October the little tykes had grown so much they needed another visit!

And the rest of the year has found me out and about enjoying the scenery closer to home…

November–

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…continually grateful and amazed at this world God has let us inhabit for another year…

Which brings us ‘round to December again…treasuring family near at hand, carrying on with all the family traditions, for who knows if this will be the last year they are home under this one roof… (gulp)

Our present to ourselves this year was a (near)new Tandem to replace our homemade and not-as-strong-as-it-should-be relic…We are stoked to start putting on the miles together!

And that is a smattering of our year here.

Here’s wishing you and yours a God-Blessed New Year!

–LS, for the Skelton crew…