A little catchup

I flagged for Michael last week when he moved his cows from Cottonwood home. This is the drive coming out on the highway at Cottonwood. Mike Beard is the cowboy you can see.

This morning we went over to Michael's to help with a short small drive from Beck's to his place. I loved his work horses looking at us over the corral fence.

Crossing the little creek out of a spring up the hill. No name.

Saturday Betty and I got a booth at the Big Piney Craft Fair. It was a lot of fun. Betty and Tanners are talking Mesquite rocks...

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Flight yesterday

Looking at our old Willow Creek place from the north.

Looking down on Scott and Sara's

Civil Air Patrol training day

The Pinedale Squadron of the Civil Air Patrol did some FLIR testing to show our sheriff what it could do. The FLIR is forward looking infra red (camera) that can pick up any heat. We were to have people, a camp fire, a four wheeler running and someone smoking. The smoking thing was the problem, but Alex's daughter brought two cigaretts and smoked them..she about got sick, but she smoked them and the FLIR picked them up.

We drove back to the Half Moon Lake overlook for cell reception to make sure they were still planning the flight despite the weather.

Here we are around the fire..Chelsie was under dressed for the occaision so I gave her my pit coat. That's Katlin, her cousin in the carhart. Bob fanning the fire to get it going.

The ground crew...plus the photographer. About the time they were done, the weather turned off nice.

Halloween

This should be dated October 31st. Cute trick or treaters

I have a picture somewhere of these two eleven years ago. We found the cat on Halloween eve eleven years ago.

Cattle Drive on Cottonwood

We were helping Michael switch pastures..this is the gather...

The weather got a little worse...

Going into the driving wind made it cold. This is Michael and Bob.

Palmer..Toots is proof I was there!

More hunting season

Scott shot this beautiful ram. He and his dad and Cody will always remember this trip.

Hunting Season

Apparently hunting season is still going on here at the house.

Bob tying the pack on Toots, who turned pack horse for this trip. As Kathy Wipfler said on fb when she recognized Toots packing out, she's an all around gal.

The yearly lineup before they head out. Grandpa Bob, Michael, Palmer and Kirsten. This is her first hunting trip. They got into a lot of snow at Mary's Lake, and only got the big tent put up the first night. Acording to the spot, they are out hunting this morning. The sun is out, and I hope they are all warm somewhere.

A little catch up

We went for a flight up South Cottonwood the other day..and it was ever so smoky. Coming into the airport I got the only decent shot of the New Fork River and smoke out just a little ways.

Jamie laughing at Bob squeezing in his unique experimental. It's a cool plane that has the engine in the back. I have yet to see it in the air. This was at the fly-in last week.

August 21, 2017

Watching the Great American Eclipse with Scott and Sara drinking mimosas. Then pork burgers from their grill.

The photo below is of my grandmother, Nell Allen with my mother Virginia Allen, aka Texas Pape.

My mother was born on this day in 1914. I've always loved this photograph of my grandmother and  my mother.

Moving cows in Prices' sections

Up early to moved cows this morning. We got there at daylight but sat in the truck for half an hour while it rained pretty hard. We were mostly worried about the road getting out being too wet. The cows went easily...Bob counted the right number through the gate, and the road dried enough we had no trouble getting out. He had loaded the four wheeler too, and took salt up to the upper section. We saw a gorgeous bull moose, and a lot of young sage chickens.