Yellowstone - July 2010

We went to Yellowstone last summer and that was a great trip. Beautiful country!! :)

The falls and waterways in the park are absolutely breathtaking!!!




























There were TONS of buffalo right along the road. In fact, there were so many and so close that they had posted rangers along the road and they (the rangers) got real testy if you stopped, even to take a quick picture. I managed to do it before they got all the way up to the van!! haha.






















There was this one huge Elk laying right beside the road. A bunch of people got out and were taking pictures of it, so I did too... haha.









Then on our way back by the same area, he (she) had gotten up and wandered over for a snack...

















I will add some more pictures later. I am done blogging for the night. :)

It's not been a year yet!!

Every time I see a fun blog, every time my sister updates hers, every time my other sister mentions pictures, every time one of my kids do something exciting or every time we take a trip as a family I think I need to work on my blog! haha!

As you can see, it doesn't happen often. The working on the blog part... I think of it so often. So I will blog!

Love this!!!

Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless swamps of the approximate, the not-quite, the not-yet, the not-at-all. Do not let the hero in your soul perish, in lonely frustration for the life you deserved, but have never been able to reach. Check your road and the nature of your battle. The world you desired can be won. It exists, it is real, it is possible, it is yours.
Ayn Rand

They say a list is important to getting all you need to done

But if you make a list that would mean setting a plan... and that is something that NEVER works for me. Every time I make a plan of any kind, everything possible conspires against me to make sure it is going to go awry!!! :(

Started with a plan this morning - had so much to get done and needed to get to the store first thing. Got waylayed waiting on a client, finally headed out to run the errands I needed to run - at noon. Got all the things I needed to finish up prepping the garden and getting those strawberries in the ground, including the replacement sprinkler, in the corner of the bed.

Got home finally at 2:30 - Webelos at 4:30, no spreading fertalizer (stinky steer manure) on the garden before scouts, not sure 8 10yo scouts would enjoy that!! I'ill fix the sprinkler and put out the mouse bait (yes, it's SAFE FOR PETS!!)

Fix the sprinkler and have Ronnie turn it on to test it... blew it right off! WHAT??? :( Dig down and discover it is that stupid black tubing with the graduated fitting theing on the end of the coupler and something is not working :( Oh Shoot! Now I have to quit earlier to change for scouts, cause I am all muddy (better than stinky, I guess!!)