With having ties to sheep, ha, my family volunteers every October (thinking this is year 6?) at the Trailing of the Sheep Festival held in Ketchum and Hailey Idaho. My sister has been in charge of the parade the past two years. Wrangling humans, horses pulling wagons and wooly critters, takes some . . .
More garden goodness!
This year has been something when it comes to everyone near us having a plethora of produce. We've exchanged garden produce at the gym and as I've mentioned in an earlier post, produce has gone to work with Mister, has been placed in the teachers' boxes at school, left at the staff lounges, . . .
The Human Napkin
If you've ever reproduced or brought little folks into your life and home, you are very familiar with their harsh anti-napkin views. Little Red and Little Lady would occasionally get food on their faces and clothes. At times, they looked like survivors of a food war and the food won. However, they . . .
You can leave now.
The two pictures below, are from yesterday. We're inundated with smoke from Oregon and British Columbia. We have a few still burning here in Idaho but as far as I know, they're all contained. Pictured below, are two photos with the left from last night and the right as I was heading out to . . .
A piece of Old Hollywood!
My girls and I are big fans of Disney's The Parent Trap, starring Hayley Mills and Maureen O'Hara and many other actors (the list is really long). A cool fact you may not know, is that Maureen O'Hara moved out to Boise a few years ago before passing away in . . .
Hey ewe!
Last week, as every August, there were three shippings from two different corrals (I helped to build one of the corrals when I was 14 & that baby is gonna last a long time) in the Caribou National Forest in southeastern Idaho. A shipping, is when the lambs who are almost the size of the ewes, . . .
The Great Pumpkin?
So, this pumpkin pictured above, is in our garden. It's got a cousin in there too. Ha. We knew we'd planted big Jack-O-Lantern pumpkins, but we didn't know we'd planted one or two Great Pumpkins (Charlie Brown & the Great Pumpkin). *the pumpkin cousin & Kitty Notice Little Man's . . .
Thar’s pears in that thar bucket!
Mister recently harvested some Bartlet pears from one of our pear trees, filling a five gallon bucket. See below. Below, here are the remaining pears on the tree. I can't even tell where Mister pulled pears off of the tree limbs. This baby is FULL of pears! I think we'll be canning . . .
Tramp stamp from painting a barn
Last fall, Mister built a barn for our donkeys, Dottie & Bill. Our goats, Jack, Ethel & Lucy, already had a goat shed but inside the shed, it's only the height of Little Man, so in no way would our donkey couple be able to find respite from the elements in there. At the completion of the . . .
Swimming lessons or lessons in patience?
Last month, I signed Little Man up for swimming lessons. I figured he'd do well since he swims often during the summer. Well, Little Man has had other plans for the past three days. That photo above? That's Little Man standing outside of the pool . . . until the last five minutes when I handed him . . .