Up at the Mills Place is a sawmill. Ped and Gary, the Mills brothers, both enjoyed working this sawmill. Vernon had helped Ped a time or two, but had never run the saw. Now, Gary wants to keep the sawmill, so we don’t own it, but ever since we’ve bought the place, my boys have…
Category: Family
Roads
We made a flying trip to Billings today. I hadn’t planned to go because originally it was just Vernon and Victoria going to Cody to finish up the paperwork on her new car. But Vernon said since they would be halfway to Billings, why didn’t I go along and we’d figure out our cabinets. See,…
Meanwhile…
While I was going through my traumatic evening last night… plans did continue and we did have our bonfire. Remember the Cat that came through this fall? This was a smaller pile she had left behind. It took a little doing, but they managed to set it aflame. I finally gathered myself together and went out to the…
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,…
Cousin Robb
Today was uneventful… more perfataping at the Mills Place. Cleaning. Laundry. Dishes. Teaching. Pretty much standard life… but nothing inspired me today. And then I remembered. My cousin. Cousin Robb. This guy is younger than me. Though I never can remember how much! Most of my cousins were either a lot older or a lot…
Girls
This is an OOPE photo from the other day. Note the dark edge of my pocket, proof the camera was really there! I liked it then… but after spending the weekend with my mother, I like this photo even more. This is Dally and Elsa trotting along peacefully side by side. The work is getting…
Spurs
Up at our new place… we call it the Mills place… is this sight. Roy Mills, patriarch of RM Ranch, saddled his horse to go check his cows, leaving his spurs behind on the gate post. Hours later his wife noticed the riderless horse standing next to his master. It was assumed he’d had a…
Progress
My new bike meets an early winter storm… This last week has been difficult in many ways. I watched this storm blow in from the “comfort” of my hospital bed. Being sick is no different for anyone I suppose, we reject the imposition. We have things to do! for heaven’s sake. But that time has…
An addendum
OK, remember my pityparty??? No cake, no balloons…??? Well, I’ll tell you this much. Saturday I went on a bad ambulance call. I’m not really used to those, and I’ll leave it at that. Sunday I had chest pain. Monday I had light headedness (no, not because I am blonde). Tuesday I could NOT breathe….
Here they come… there they go
My sister took this picture for me… I love it. Here we all are, well, my sister and my husband are both following us with the pickup and horsetrailer… But look! It’s US! After a long day of cowboyin’, we ride for the corral, shadowing a puny feeling heifer. That’s me on the left in…
Blizzard
My daughter has completed college and a semester of working as a substitute teacher. She now has applied for various teaching positions around the state, hoping fora small rural school 5th grade position. Since they were almost doubling her rent at the end of this month, she elected to move home and work on the…
Ahorseback
Daniel rides his Big Red Rooster horse to help sort off pairs. All my children have helped ride since they were about 5… and even riding double for short periods before that. One of my favorite pictures is Brandon in front of me on the saddle sound asleep while trailing on the mountain. We had those…