Back to the mountain.
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Back to the mountain.
Author: Carol
Collected Stories
Some other family stories have been shared with me and I think you’ll enjoy them! LIFE OF O. E. HOBACK as told to Edna Greet (Vernon’s grandmother). Uncle Oscar was born February 11, 1874, near Rogersville, Arkansas. Bentonville was their county seat. The family had moved there soon after the close of the…
Throwback Thursday:
This was first published August 29, 2014. I’ve been working on a new video… hopefully with less uploading trauma than the last one! So for tonight’s quick pic… I thought I’d make you jealous. The view from my studio this evening… A fingernail moon ornamented the sky just barely out of view, I did catch…
Wordless Wednesday: Favorite Colors
For a jigsaw puzzle of some of my favorite colors draped around our fossil butte, go HERE.
Farm Collie
Bravo urging on a calf. I’m usually aware of dogs in photographs, especially English Shepherd types. I am reading a local history book as my “Wyoming” book for this month’s Pronghorn Reads Challenge. That’s a statewide monthly reading challenge promoted by Wyoming Humanities. It’s a good little book, full of bits and pieces that are…
Fires
196,000 acres. Over 300 square miles. That’s the Remington Fire that started in Wyoming and made a run into Montana over fourteen miles in one night. Then there’s the House Draw Fire. 174,000 acres. They shut down Interstate 25 for that one by Buffalo and Sheridan. The Flat Rock Fire and the Constitution Fire near…
Escape
With tons of cow work headed our way, I chose to escape to the mountains before it all starts… and with views like this, can you blame me?
Blessings
It does my heart good to see this. I give thanks every night for them and all my other blessings.
sometimes I swear
Just to prove I’ve been trying to upload a Throwback Friday post for over half an hour and I quit.
Historical Photo: Branding 1950’s?
While sorting through the pile of photos, it seems as if the ones printed like this were about the 1950’s era. I don’t recognize this round corral. Obviously, this was in the day of Hereford cattle. So many things are still the same… I don’t recognize the brand… does anyone know of the R3 brand?
Wordless Wednesday: Camp Robber
For a jigsaw puzzle of this camp robber, go HERE.
An Answer to a Question
Many of you liked the historical photo I posted of Edna, especially the one with the gun on her hip. Well, today, while cooling off from lawn work in the ‘90* heat, I was sorting photos and came across this photo in the Worland newspaper. That little article clears up a few questions…