Holy buckets. More rain. More work. A puzzle to make up for Wednesday! Rain Ridge Puzzle
Guesses
#tbt is on hold… And I have exciting news to share… Monday I’m going on vacation! Yes, like a REAL vacation! I’ve been to librarians’ conventions… and there were those trips to get my custom cowboy hat… but I haven’t been gone for longer than a couple of nights for many, many years. Where am…
Ta-da!
Re-watched videos… Took notes… Ta-da! (note the chickens and the whitetail bucks and raindrops! double-click to see it full sized) Rainclouds from Carol Greet on Vimeo.
Rainstorm
Two months of drought… and now rainstorm after rainstorm! 1.92″ and all of that in the past few days. I set out my GoPro… the skies were dramatic and a storm was blowing in. Perfect for a time lapse. But once again, my memory fails me and I’ve been sitting here trying to figure out…
Salsa
28 pints of salsa later (plus 3 pints of tomato sauce)… I’m done. Except for all those tomatoes on the vine under the big blue tarp… ugh. I’m almost to the point of letting the frost take them… but I know I will just can some plain ol’ tomatoes when they’re ripe. But not today!…
Enter Freeze Warnings
Blessed by rain… And now enter the cold front and freeze warnings! There is snow on the mountain. My tomatoes are covered, the ripe ones harvested… My windows are steamed from the heat of my salsa making endeavours. My Black Prince tomatoes are delicious, but their black color looks “off” when made into salsa… I…
Rain Days
Finally. Rain. Lots of it. An inch and a half as of this writing… which is great moisture for a dry steppe country like Wyoming. Rain days are vacation days for ranchers… go to town on a rainy day, and you’ll see your neighbors. We were going to be prepping for preg testing on Saturday……
#TBT: Six
Happy sixth birthday to Quinlan!!! It’s flown by so fast… and you’ve brought so much joy to all of us in these past six years!
Wordless Wednesday – “Mountain Blues”
Mountain Blues puzzle
A Little Wet
We will be weaning tomorrow… and in preparation, we water down the corrals. Dust can be your enemy when calves, already stressed from leaving their mothers, breathe all that dust into their lungs. They can easily get sick… and, possibly, die. This time of year, especially this year… Wyoming *is* Dust. The corrals at home…
The Big Tipi
Another adventure… This time to Lost Cabin, Wyoming for a tour of The Big Tipi, aka J.B. Okie’s mansion. Known as the Sheep King of Central Wyoming, he was an intelligent businessman with big plans. I’ve driven past this house FOREVER… Well, ever since I’ve been married… and have wondered about it. I’ve wanted to…