Happy New Year - 2010

Here we are in a brand new year and a new decade. I still remember when it was 1999 and we were waiting for 2000. We had worked so hard getting all of our computer systems at the bank where I worked ready to handle the year 2000. People say- ooh it was all a lot of nothing (the hoopla over the new century), but then again, they probably don't realize how much work went into it being a lot of nothing. Anyway, it's nice not to have to worry about that kind of stuff anymore!

We had a nice New Year's eve. Our square dance club went out to dinner together. The restaurant was only open for us - we had 38 people. Then we went to our hall where we had a dance with about 4 squares.

Saturday night (the 2nd) Michelle took us to the Wenatchee Wild hockey game. It was a huge crowd - 4097. When you think of the size of Wenatchee that is a lot of people. Anyway, the Wild won 6 - 1, so it was also an exciting game for us.

We have a mineral lick in our backyard for the deer, plus a feeding block. It's a block with different deer food kind of glued together with molasses or something. Anyway, last night about midnight we had 5 deer in the back yard. When Bob got up this morning, there was one deer in our yard and he said it was being chased by a coyote. Bob went out and chased off the coyote. The deer stayed in our yard for a long time, but eventually wandered off. We are the second to the last house before a big hill that goes off into a wide open area where the deer winter.