Meal

Friday night members of the hiking group were invited over to Joyce and Edley's home for supper and to discuss hiking plans for this summer. I decided to burn a CD with photos of our trips this past year and found I needed to do some weeding of photos. I was late to the get together by almost a half hour. I did call Joyce to let her know I would be late.

Edley and Joyce's driveway was icy. And very bumpy. To rough up the ice Edley had driven his caterpillar back and forth on it. Otherwise it would be very slick and easy to slide off the road.

Bill and Arnie and their wives were there. Sue Ann was not. Apparently her vehicle is dead.

Arnie - in his 80s! - had been downhill skiing at Big Mountain a few days ago. He said it was sunny and warm and beautiful up above the inversion cloud.

The meal was a typical ranch meal: meat and potatoes. The meat choices were beef and elk. Potatoes were mashed with gravy. Joyce picked carrots from her garden earlier that day. She covers them with tarps and straw and uses the ground to keep them over winter. It works great as they taste very good and don't get old. And she had a salad that had a hint of an oriental flavor. And bread. Dessert was huckleberry cobbler. The entire meal was homemade and was excellent and there was plenty of food so everyone could have seconds.

Afterward we looked at the couple hundred photos I had put on a CD of our hikes. Not everyone went on all our hikes so they could see what they missed.

It was a nice relaxing time with friends. When we left Joyce gave each of us some fresh carrots from her garden. Yum!