Earlier this summer, the little girls couldn’t go to Girl Scout camp because we were super busy. I figured I’d give them Girl Scout camp right here. Raising the flag. It’s a tad difficult to have a real flag ceremony with two girls and a two year old… Time to set up camp! Girl muscles…
Category: Family
Found It
Last week I spoke of introducing my grandkids to Little House on the Prairie. I also let the girls try on the prairie dress I had made back in 1990 for Wyoming’s centennial celebration. I had made one for Victoria as well, who was six that year. Well, I couldn’t find it, but I’m such…
Little House Re-enacted
Yesterday’s photo of “Little House” reminded me of something. The Kids’ Rodeo is coming up in Ten Sleep… Jaxon was chosen to carry in the American flag in the Grand Entry. That’s pretty cool… so he’s been practicing with his pony, Jackie, and getting her used to the flag. I asked Tess if he was…
#TBT: “A Find”, v.2.0
This was first posted July 9, 2009. I know someone who found something and then, wonder of wonders, returned it to the closest owner available. Her husband is a carpenter and was remodeling an old cabin. Tucked away in the bottom of an old cabinet, was this. Absolutely gorgeous, is it not??? Hand-tooled… spectacular. It…
Zoom
While we all tend to think of the word, Zoom, just a bit differently nowadays, ( hey, I attended a Zoom conference just this afternoon!), I was going to share something using the old definition. I stumbled across this photo again, and marveled at it. It’s easily recognizable as our place due to that gunsight…
Happy Sixth
We hoped it would rain today, but the shower that did finally go over us only dropped .04”. These random rain showers are hit or miss. So far, we still qualify for “miss” status. This evening we celebrated Lacee’s sixth birthday even though it was actually a few days ago. Last week I took her…
Special Request
I had a special photography request a couple of weeks ago. Yes, kindergarten graduation was last week. I can tell you more about that later if you’re interested, but tonight, I think I’ll just share some photos of my little graduates.
Kid Power
I broke it down for them. Be quiet. Be calm. Don’t wave your flags until you want a calf to move. They jumped right in, and I had to hustle to keep up with them. They worked the calves down the alley. They worked them into the smaller pen. The gates were heavy. The calves…
Red Canyon Hike
A bit of a break between more cow work… our annual Red Canyon hike… minus Victoria’s family.
Silvertone Portraits
By Carol *and* Jaxon
Easter Hunt
While our Easter was white, that’s not unusual. The extreme cold and wind was a little rougher! Every year, I’ve made a scavenger hunt for the kids. I started with photographs of the chicken coop, garage, or other recognizable places, and they’d run place to place, never knowing where I’d hidden their sacks of presents…
Many Faces
We weighed steers this afternoon. Jaxon helped. The entire time. His hands got sore from pulling the chute gate rope. He has to hang on the thing to lift it. He’s quite the worker! He’s also a pretty happy worker, even if these photos don’t catch him smiling. Just bad timing on my part. Behold….