Big News

  Here's a picture of my bride. She knitted the sweater she is wearing. Pretty dang cool huh?

The really cool part is that she is just starting the second trimester. You know we are gonna have a baby!!!! We are super excited about this. Here's Jelly Bean two weeks ago.

We are calling the baby Jelly Bean because the first ulta-sound looked just like a jelly bean. Until next time take care.

A Date

      My bride talked me into working today insted of yesterday so I could go with her to the Fiber Fair in Scottsbluff NE. It was nice to just spend time wondering around and looking at stuff. We didn't have any time pressure, THAT was so nice! We took my truck and I had a new radio put in. The old one died. The new radio plays an iPod. Sharon gave me her old one so I've been putting music on it. We stopped at the radio store and the guy there said it would about a 30 minute to put it in. So we went next door and had lunch. He was done when we got back.
    Went to the Fiber fair. They had tons of fiber aka wool. It was cool seeing Sharon in her element. She had fun looking and talking to vendors. She is kinda shy so me being there helps her. Sharon has been spinning wool on a drop spindle and wants to get a spinning wheel. There was a vendor that rents wheels. We came home with a wheel to try out. It doesn't look like the old classic wheels. It's a fold up travel model. Sharon has played on the classic models and really liked them.This one will give her the chance to spin up a bunch of wool into thread and see if she likes spinning. I think we will be getting a wheel in the future. They are kinda expensive but whats not. The craftmanship on the classic type wheels in just awesome. Here's the wheel folded up.

The wheel set up and ready to use. The front view.

Well until next time take care.

Water tanks

  Last couple days I have been working on putting in new water tanks at my house. The big old metal one rusted out so I put in this rubber tire tank.

Here's a shot of it with dirt in it. I will top it off with concrete then set the float valve in it.

I had really cool old concrete tank but it was leaking so I tore it out as well. When I was setting the tank this morning everything was going great til I accidentally moved the tire and broke the riser pipe. So Im digging through the old concrete. Got to find the joint its probaly 5-6 feet down below frost line.
  Thats what Ive been doing. Until next time take care.

Wedding

  Here's some of my sister-in-laws wedding. I know it was a couple weeks ago but better later than never right? Here's the family.

The Wedding party.

Dancing with my mother-in-law. Lots of fun! I love this picture just wish our hands were lower.

My bride and myself.

The woman that I am lucky enough to spend the rest of my life with.

Until next time take care

At Rest

     So we went to Dubois WY on Friday and yes it was another whirlwind trip. We celebrated my Dads life on Saturday. We buried his ashes in the morning and then had an open house at the VFW club in the afternoon for the public. We laid him to rest next to his parents.
   I made a box and Sharon made quilt for the urn.

  My Dad was a Mason so the Masons came down and and we had Darwin the pastor of the church Sharon and I went to it Crowheart do the service. It was really nice.  My Uncle, Aunt and I spoke about Dad.



My Dads headstone . The little note next to it is kinda our way of grieving.

  We did a some crying in the morning and laughing in the afternoon. We celebrated two birthdays Saturday night. My great Aunt Anita turned 80 and my cousin Lori turned 40.

The family. Sharon was feeling tired and went to bed so she's not in the picture.

Rest in Peace Dad. You will be missed.

Sights

   Here are some of the sights we saw on the way to California a couple weeks ago. We went there for my sister-in-laws wedding.
   Independence rock. Really cool, it was a great place to stop and let the dogs out.

  There was this wagon there also to give you idea how the pioneers came out here.

You can see Sharon being a tourist a taking a picture.
Next is Devils gate. Its just a little ways down the road.

This was taken south of Alcova. I love this kind of country! Another pitstop for the dogs.The dogs are in the picture I promise.

Hope you enjoyed the photo's I'll get more posted of the wedding soon. Until next time take care.
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AWOL

 Sorrry I'm been really busy. Lame excuse but its true. So we went to California for my sister-in-laws wedding . 2,536 miles in 6 days we were in Long Beach for 2 days. Very fast trip. I got to see my brother and his family for about 45 minutes. I brought him some stuff he wanted of our Fathers. Good visit just like the trip way to fast.
   We have been haying and fixing windmillls oh yea and we had a fire lost and couple more hundred acres of grazing. We are going for a 3rd cutting of hay. I'm kinda thinking its gonna be a hard winter after the open and warm one we had last year.
    I have some pictures to post here be the camera is still in the truck. My In-law are here visiting in good look see them. I know we just saw them 2 weeks ago. My father-in -law went to work with me today and helped us pull the pump out of a windmill. So nice to have a 3rd guy!!!!
  Well dinner is really so until next time take care

Spam

I have been getting a ton of spam. So as much as I hate to I turned on the spam guard deal. So if you want to leave comments you will need to try to read and type them characters. Sorry.... But there is only so may viagra spam deals I can read. Until next time take care

Last branding of the year

    We had the last branding on Wednesday. It was a small one we branded 100 head of calves. It was lots of fun. Really good help. The neighbors to the south came up and helped. It is nice to work with top hands who will give out good advice and tips. It sure makes the work easier. Spare ponies waiting to go to work.

The herd. I think a calf is necked in that dust.

Riding back to rope another one.

Got one stretched out. Kelly is one handy rope. She make it look easy.

Chris's yellow horse.

Well that all I have for now. Click on the pic make it bigger. Until next time take care



Been a while

To quote a friend " We have been running around like a head with a chicken cut off ". Lets see what we have been doing. We finished the first cutting of hay and I got it picked up and stacked.

Hay just off the field I just slid it off the truck.

Hay in rows. Ready to feed.

Bulls just turned out headed to the girls. Time to get to work boys. Have fun.

We went to the parade in town the other night. The Legend of Rawhide.

We branded 2 bunches of calves last week. We branded 325-350. Head and healed them. So fun! We are doing our last bunch of calves this week. I'll try to get some pictures of the branding. Until next time take care