From Arizona a Happy 2013 to y'all!

Well, there it is, a new year, a new round....new chances..!

Not that I necessarily need one but it's always nice to get something of a fresh start, don't you think so?

James got of to his good start by making a 'new round' of oliebollen for New Year. They came out a little crunchier than normal but were delicious as always. 

For not being dutch he's pretty good at it!

     

Just looking at the pictures make me crave them again. Badly...!

Which is partly caused by the fact that we've started some sort of a 'new years resolution'-style health regiment which includes, or it's more about excluding actually, a lot of fruit, veggies and lean meats and fish. Oh well, you know, the usual....
As far as for the excluding part that involves off course the sugar, starches and such, so...no more oliebollen for a while I'm afraid.

m..mm..good!

Among my other resolutions for this year are, (I always have a big list, it helps me getting at least some of it done) finishing this darn pair of never-ending socks and finishing at least one pine needle basket (right, don't ask). We'll see.

OK, what has been happening here?
We took a drive out in the desert and visited the Havasu national Wildlife refuge which covers 30 river miles from Needles to Lake Havasu City and is a safe haven for lots of endangered birds and other animals as the desert bighorn sheep.

We didn't see much wildlife but it was a nice drive alongside the border of the Refuge.







At the campsite I kept seeing these busy footprints and wondered who made them....

I finally have identified the suspects:

They're Quails. It's a whole pack of them but they play hard to get, always running and flying off when I get close to them with my camera! They have a pretty good camouflage color too as you can (barely) see in this picture.

Take a look at this: thevirussurgeon.com! Doesn't he look like he knows what he's doing? Maybe he should have looked a little more 'geeky'?
So far he had 3 clients and they were all happy so it looks like he's off to another good start! And instead of baking the 'oliebollen' this makes money. Although, come to think of it, maybe we could try selling those? Mmmm,......interesting......

Well, I better go take care of my husband who has a bad cold, which makes me think of my sister,

Hey, sis!
 

who has the flu :(, and of Judy, who had her hip replaced today!
(maybe I should have something too?)

Any-who, get well soon, all of you guys!