We went for a drive through the mountains on Sunday afternoon and stopped for a little scramble up an old quarry site. The view was magnificent. You can just make out the highway down below. What a glorious day! 
Our lovely combination fax and answering machine died at work. All of you people who live in cities may laugh now. THIS town doesn’t have such a thing in stock. Now, we may not be a large business, but we do get some faxes every day, so it seemed important to deal with our lack…
Today we went for a hike and to find a couple of geocaches. Since Jim got his GPS unit last spring, we’ve been doing a bit more *tourist in the hometown* stuff. We didn’t know these rocks were worth climbing before! We also didn’t know there were petroglyphs in the area. The pile of rock…
Since hubby started geocaching a few months ago, we’ve gone on a few excursions and want to do more. The last couple caches were practically beside the parking lot, and we wanted to find places that required a hike-in. We sure found one of those today! First we drove up the mountain near our house,…
Today you get to see a few photos from our recent road trip to Las Vegas! I loved seeing the looks on people’s faces when I said we were going to Vegas — folks who know Jim and me were rightfully quite shocked as it doesn’t seem like ‘our thing.’ Well, you’re all right. It’s…
This year I have to tell you that farming is not going well. This morning before work I found a very brand newborn calf in the corral. After awhile I phoned my in-laws and asked them to check the calf. MIL phoned about 10:30 to say that the calf wasn’t up and sucking yet. Usually…
Or perhaps more like hiss, spit, and snarl. George is our almost-thirteen-year-old cat. He’s a very pampered kitty who loves to play, though he may be maturing at last. I mean, this is the first Christmas he did NOT remove and ornaments from the tree to play soccer with in the dead of night. (We…