Woke up to this on the day we r suppose to fly home for the holidays!
Yup....that is about 12 inches.
Yup.....I did already get the truck stuck which I heard was "impossible"!
I guess not for me!
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
1st accomplishment
Friday, December 14, 2012
We have 1 cow who pinched a nerve when she went through the shoot. So now she is having some trouble with her front legs . In short, they are not really working all that great. So we move her over to the corral where she could rest. The kids and I went over to do ranch chores and she was laying there. I walked over and gathered up some hey and brought her a fresh bucket of water.
Then I gave her a little cow massage.
I think I may have just turned into a vegetarian!
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Not my favorite place!
So my worst nightmare came true last night! I had always worried what I would do if someone were to throw up all over in the middle of the night, we really have no place to wash that in the middle of the night without running the generator.
Thanks to Hunter I now know exactly what I would do. Somehow Hunter has grown up to be the worst thrower upper. I think he must fight it for so long that finally when it refuses to stay down it just comes shooting out. So not only did hunter throw up all over his own bed he projected it on to Benjamin's bed as well. Good thing Benjamin had already crawled into bed with me and Scott.
I woke up hearing Katie telling hunter to go and get mom. I am not really sure what Hunter with doing or what he was thinking, but when I came in and the smell of puke hit me like a freight train, he was laying face down in an X on his bed! Poor thing!
Anyway, after giving everything is good rinse and scrub, we all lived to tell about it!
And now Katie and I are spending the afternoon at the laundromat playing Rummy while Scott stays back with the sickies!
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
Ranch man
That guy, standing there, holding the cattle prod, that is my mean husband. I am Not sure what I was really thinking about when I thought about all the cattle going to the squeeze chute. Perhaps I thought they may just quietly and nicely all walk down . But that is not really the case!
Very sad
So the kids and I finally made it over to the ranch. Benjamin woke up this morning with the flu and has been throwing up ever since. So the chickens were going to have to wait. Good thing it was rather warm today and their water actually thought I'd some so they were not completely dehydrated when we got there.
So the kids and I pull up, Ben wrapped up in a blanket in his pajamas and a puke bucket and the rest of us all eager to see what is happening at the ranch. Today was the day the vet was coming to do the pregnancy checks on all the cows. On our way down log Canyon we saw a herd of deer with about 30 to 40 dear. And of course, there were the 2 big bucks.
So we pull up and there is a big dead call just laying there. We all have our faces pressed up against the glass windows in the car wondering what is going on. When I asked Scott he said that she got stuck coming to the squeeze chute or maybe it might have been the alley that leads to the squeeze chute and broke her neck! You can still see the chains wrapped around her where they had to haul her body out. The kids and I looked out and I am not sure who said it, but 1 said just another day at the ranch . That is life on the ranch.
So we decorated a Christmas tree after all!
I will tell you a funny story about this tree. Last year at Prairie Hill, were the kids use to go to school, I was in charge of the annual appeal. In order to hold people accountable for their contributions we decided to put together an annual appeal giving tree. I got such a great deal on this fake tree at Steins that I decided I wanted to take it with me to Utah when we moved. It actually worked out really great seeing as it is our Christmas tree this year!
Hard to see, but you get the idea
I took this picture when it was snowing so the house is hard to see in the distance
Hard at work
Hunter and Katie and I spend 3 hours sweeping up the new house. It was a lot of hard work but then we treat ourselves going out for lunch. Of course Benjamin came with us out to lunch as well even though he spent most of the time in the car.
Wednesday, November 28, 2012
Welcome back...
So we arrive back from Florida safe and sound. All refreshed from having played in the sand in the ocean. We had a great time at the wedding. It was really special to see you my daughter be part of Kacy's wedding when little Kacy had been part of my wedding and my aunt Rhonda and I have always had a special relationship.
And this is a great picture of my welcome home! This is Benjamin's butt after he apparently found a secret mud puddle and proceeded to slip into it and fall on his bottom and get himself full of mud. How he found that pile of mud, I am not sure. It was actually even chunky mud! Needless to say, Benjamin rode home in the car in his boxers!
And she even eats crab legs!
Our last night in Florida we all went out for dinner. Katie had never tried crab legs before and decided that she thought it would be fun to crack the legs. And she did! Nothing better than crab legs and drawn butter. Yum!
Florida
Kate & I headed to Florida together. Katie was a flower girl in our cousin's wedding. It was a great girls only get away! Nothing like the ocean!!
Note to self....
Just because the road up to Mt. Nebo is open does not mean you should go. If you see snow....GO BACK!
While the Noll's were here, we decided to take a little trip up Nebo. We drove all the way to Payson to come up and back over the mountain.
We noticed there was quite a bit of snow on the road but people had gone through and we follow their tracks. In some places the snow was about 12 to 18 inches! After awhile, I could hardly look out the window.
So, we get all the way to the summit which is 9343 feet up and about a mile past that the tracks in the snow end. So we have to turn back around and go all the way back the way we came! Plus, we we're on the danger low mark as far as gas was concerned.
It certain was a lesson learned. It is unbelievable how quickly things can go to being really terrible. For example, if we would have slid off the road and someone had to walk out, we would have run out of gas and probably have had to sleep in the car on the top of the mountains with no one knowing we were up there. You hear and read about people that that happened to you and I always used to think "how stupid can you be?" But that was us!
Visit with the Noll's
Bob and Deb got a new phone....this is the only tiny little spot where the phone works in the cabin!
Really proud
I have not really ever chopped wood before. Yeah- with an ax I am talking! But now....I am getting to be an expert. I chopped all this cedar to help get the fire started back up in the morning.
It's the little things, right?
Monday, November 5, 2012
Hunter's second riding lesson!
He is a natural, and does things with such conviction that the horse simply follows. It is a joy to see him channel his energy. The trainer is wonderful! She even says things like, " feel the power of your energy travel through the rope." I love that someone, other than us, is teaching him that concept. It comes so easily to him and in a fun way when he does it with the horses.
Such a great lesson!
Thursday, November 1, 2012
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