Wayyyyy out west

OK maybe not WAY out west but on Sunday we headed out to the panhandle of West Virgina and up into the mountains.

We were visiting Dee and Ray in their splendid self-build Log-cabin house a couple of hours west of DC (including this amazing fire pit in the center of the lounge).














This visit included some neighborly assist to Brian from whose kitchen Lisa can be seen admiring the view down to the valley to the South

Two of life's inevitables....

Firstly ... if you wait long enough the Washington winter will eventually
arrive. Despite all the talk of the mild winter, the icy weather finally arrived.
It's now been below freezing point since last Sunday. Our home thermometer has registered a low of 11F (c.-12C), wind chill made it feel well below. Here's a picture of the largely frozen Potomac river with a light covering of snow that fell earlier in the week.
We've still had it relatively easy though, upstate New York has had 100 inches of snow this past week and much of the Midwest has been much colder.

The other inevitable, age.... Rob's eye finally succumbing to the need for reading glasses. Still getting use to them!!!

The Robyns Young

The Treasure Hunt is on, identify the real bona fide Robyn (Michelle Eleanor) Young from the following rogues gallery.....
All those depicted are indeed called Robyn Young (including the country & western dude - what WERE his parents thinking, I suppose he has something to write songs about though...)




Only two of them live on the south coast of England (the rest are doctors and librarians and students (and c&w singers!) in the US or Austalia).

One of those two has THE web site and has just published a book and the other has 3 fish and dogs called Polly and Logan (NOT 'Logie Logie' apparently).

One of them is good at scrabble, throws fabulous Christmas parties and is her Dad's favourite youngest daughter


And the answer is (as if you couldn't guess!).....


Stay tuned for more on RMEY, her people, her dogs, her cats, her fishes and her adventures......