FINALLY! The shortest day of the year has arrived! It is easy to understand why this day was/is celebrated… I feel like throwing a party myself! The amount of darkness really does make a difference in our lives here… and since Vernon swears he runs on solar power, the idea of longer and brighter days…
Author: Carol
My Work
My Work Lately, my work has included this. Lots of it… buckets to be exact. And I’m tired of it. I don’t want to see anymore of it. Yecch. and sandpaper… that too! “Begone away!” sigh. It doesn’t seem to be going away. Daniel says we’re gonna be doing this all winter. Ha. He gets…
Almost Christmas
I was so happy… I had sent out my Christmas cards yesterday… ta-da! lalalalala… I felt so… so… accomplished. fulfilled. complete. Then today I received a Christmas card from one of my puppy buyers. Don’t get me wrong, I was thrilled to hear from them and how Elle is now a great dog and they…
Progress
Today I actually made progress! My Christmas cards are now done. The tree Vernon and the boys cut for me yesterday is 80% decorated. A few more Christmas decorations are up. I actually was well prepared for all my students and classes today!!! The dogs got a few more bales of straw around their houses…
Playing
Forgive me… I’m playing with photos… wish I could spend more time figuring creative stuff out… but, for heaven’s sake, I haven’t even mailed my Christmas cards! So here… Scenic Wyoming at its best… This is Johnny’s pump house…did I just ruin it for you? Looks like a quaint tiny log house, but it would…
Another Cold One
Another day spent in town! It seems like we’re going to the “big city” quite a bit lately. For those of you who don’t know… that means Worland, Wyoming. 45 miles away… It takes about an hour to get there. Today was another freezing day, so I might as well have been in a heated…
Cousin Robb 2
Cousin Robb has posted some photographs of his amazing journey, so I figured it was time to share before I fall too far behind! He was in Nepal not too long ago. Land of the Himalayas and yaks. Here he is at Lake Tilicho. A sign claims it is higher than Lake Titicaca in Peru,…
The Boys’ Toy
Life in Wyoming has many benefits… for my boys, that would be the chance to play in the snow. They work pretty hard during the summer, with little time for fishing or camping… but in winter there’s a little more slack time. As little kids, I took all my children to the local ski area…
Blizzard
As we were working at the Mills Place, Daniel peered out an open window and said, “Storm’s coming!” And within minutes, the blizzard arrived. I headed home for lunch and snapped this photo hoping that you could see all the wind currents swirling the snow around. It didn’t turn out as well as I had…
Goodbye, heifers
This morning we sold the last of our heifers. These are the ones we didn’t choose for our replacements. They are almost 2 years old… ready to have their first babies themselves. In my humble opinion, they are pretty good looking heifers! Many of them I had picked to keep, however, if they don’t make…
Two Minute Naturewalk
Many of you have written to tell me how you enjoy pictures of Wyoming, but even better are the videos I’ve shared. The links to the videos I have on YouTube can be found on the bottom left of this page… just scroll down until you see them (they are listed as movies) and click…
Sunshine and Ice
Today was gorgeous. Glorious blue sky. Glaringly brilliant white snow. Sunshine. It was our day in the hills. Every four days we head out to our BLM leased land to open water tanks. Before Wyoming hit this huge drought, we actually chopped holes in reservoirs… now we break the ice on water tanks on long…