Mietzke's POST Holden Adventure

Our friends Keith Karen and our God daughter Lyla are here to visit, and it is so good to be with them. Today while the girls were in school we hiked behind the village up to the avalanche shoot, which I never would have done last year because of obvious danger, but the shoot had already slid and we have not had so much as a snowflake in two weeks. The valley was beautiful from up there! We could see far into Copper Basin and we got up there right as the sun came out from behind Buckskin Mountain. In the Shoot above the village the waterfall is running again something that only happened in late spring last year. The snow was hard with about half an inch of hoar frost growing on it. It was fun to be with the three of them taking in the beauty. Lyla was making ”snow” angles in the hoar frost and enjoyed sliding down the steep spots on her bum. I love to see how much she has grown.
Lyla is a live wire at three, I am convinced that she will be the queen of the world at some point in the near future. This afternoon she had control of the whole elementary class who did whatever she told them for close to two hours. She was in hog heaven. Karen and I hung out this evening and helped the girls with homework and chatted while Dave and Keith were off doing boy stuff. Keith hung out for awhile this evening and snuffed me out in Backgammon. It is so great to have them here!