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Wordless Wednesday Joy

Cheers!

Love, JanBeek

What app eats up most of your screen time — and do you even feel bad about it?

WhatsApp – communicating daily with daughter in Switzerland and bonus daughter in Baltimore. Such a blessing. No, I don’t feel bad about it. I am grateful!♥️👍🏽

Pinch Me

We say, “Pinch me” when we see something too beautiful or experience something too wonderful to be real. Yesterday I needed you to pinch me more than once.

A great day and I wish you coulda joined me.

Beautiful Madison Range

Clouds over Jack Creek Canyon & Big Sky
Breathtaking!

Such a gorgeous evening to sit out on the deck!

Come sit a spell with me!

Love, JanBeek

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If you had to be an animal for a week, which one would you be and why?

An eagle. Majestic- soaring – treasured.

I Love Montana!

The view from our back patio

We are so blessed! Have you watched the Netflix series called “The Madison”? Much of that was filmed right here in our fly fishing Mecca: Ennis.

The Madison
Bob with our buddy, Charley… great fishing!
That’s our Madison Valley. See why many refer to our area as “Big Sky Country”?

Yes, we love Montana! Such a wonderful place to live. Come visit!

Love,

Janbeek (& Bob)

Wonderful Week

We just had the most wonderful week with my cousin and his wife. Adrian & Laura were such fun to have around.

You can see what a joy Adrian is!
And his wife, Laura, is equally delightful

They are DeAngelis (my maiden name) “of angels” – apropos!!

They visited Great Falls, MT on their way from CA to us and now…

They are spending a week in Yellowstone

We enjoyed the Ennis Rodeo and fabulous July 4 parade

We were privileged to watch the parade from dear friends, Roy & Barbara Washburn’s lovely place. Such gracious, generous people!

That’s Roy with us.
After the parade downtown we had our own kiddie parade in our neighborhood.
Adorable children & great neighborhood fun!
Before Adrian & Laura left for Yellowstone, they prepared our last night’s dinner (homemade pasta and bolognese sauce. Delicious!) and we had the neighbors join us.
It was a marvelous culmination to a beautiful week together.

Wish you coulda joined us!

Hugs,

JanBeek

TenderToucher

I posted this several years ago on this last day of June. It popped up on my reminders today. I decided it was worth posting again:

“There’s nothing like a tender touch to chase away the blues. You need someone who really cares – BEE the tender toucher!”

My sweetheart is a tendertoucher!

I hope you have a tendertoucher in your life!

Reach out to others and show you really care.

Have a Tender Tuesday!

Love, JanBee

Dogs & Baby Boys

Every morning I interact on WhatsApp with my daughter, De, in Switzerland and bonus daughter, Laina, who lives near Baltimore. We exchange love, lives, pictures of our loved ones, and weather reports.

Laina & Leo

Leo’s parents are happy about sharing his face on social media. Laina, his grama, knows how to make him smile. He’s such a happy baby.

DeDe, our daughter in Switzerland, is thoroughly enjoying being a Grama.
This is not Ethan, because his parents don’t want his photo on Social Media
But you can see where Ethan & DeDe go for walks

And that baby up there looks a lot like Ethan did at that age. He’ll be 2 end of October. We hope to go there to celebrate with him. We were there for his one week birthday! But two years is a long time not to be able to see your great-grandson. He won’t know us 😩

Here’s Lacey, Laina’s granddog. He was the “flower dog” in his people parents’ wedding. A real companion now for Leo!
And here is our Kenny, a thoroughly spoiled Boston Terrier, soon to be two.
Kenny has calmed down a lot, but he still doesn’t understand what’s his to chew and what’s not!!

It’s not like he doesn’t have enough toys and chew sticks of his own!

Why does he abandon them and go after our stuff! Ah, pups! Such a challenge!
Look how big Lacey looks next to little Leo!

Kenny loves Yak Sticks. Do you know about them?

That little piece is what’s left of one 10x longer.
If you have a dog, you may wanna give these a try. Kenny loves ‘em.
Best wishes training that active pup, huh?

Only thing harder to train than a pup might be a baby… or a husband?

Hah! I can’t get this guy to stop shouting “No” when Kenny is biting at his slippers. It’s a game. Sigh!

The dog trainer told us “No” is not understood. It’s just paying attention and giving his positive attention for negative behavior. Oh my! We’ve spent two years reinforcing bad habits. Help!

Time for a walk to the neighbors. Isn’t this the cutest baby?

Enjoy babies & dogs? I sure do!

Love, JanBeek