summer views

Here are some pictures we took  this summer  The first picture is our Australian Cattle dog -"Hitch". This summer I competed with him in a CKC stockdog trial. We qualified both trials to complete requirements for our Stock Dog Started title.

Second and third pictures are views of our back field just before a summer storm. I thought the yellow grass and red hollyhocks looked great against the dark blue stormy sky. My sheep are oblivious, happy to be munching on the grass and weeds.

Fourth picture is one of my son Hayden's young geese. He is cooling off in the water bowl.

Last but not least is a picture of the new wheels (Ford) beside the old wheels (GMC) The truck AKA "Das Boat" can now slip into semi retirement. One of my many projects this summer was to get a smaller, younger and safer vehicle for the winter. Gee I guess I like blue.

summer's end

Hard to believe we are already into September. I had so many "jobs" I wanted to get done before summer ended. Two main ones were find another part time job, and get a car. Well I tried with the first and just accomplished the second. The "new car" is a Ford Focus wagon. Although it is a 2005 it has only 66ks on it and looks brand new. Parked beside my 1996 GMC truck AKA "Das Boat" The little Ford looks very spiffy. Poor Das shes carried me through some difficult times and difficult weather.

I also have a ton of other projects I wanted to complete before summer ended too but these I guess I can do over time. The exception is re-roofing our little barn. Who ever built it did not roof it properly and our first few months were spent retrieving sheets of roofing metal from around the property. Everytime we would have a big windy storm I would eye the barns roof with trepidation. "Would it stick?" Well other than clanging and flapping and leaking, we havent lost  any more roof since the spring.