The Monday After

It was a busy weekend of entertaining, parties and guests and we are pooped! It is always so enjoyable to visit with friends and family but it is also enjoyable to just get back to the two of us or rather the three of us if you include the Jazzy dog.

I'm beginning to sound like a broken record but Michael did slave away on his garage today again. I fired up the weed sprayer and murdered a lot of leafy spurge, burdock and houndstongue again. After I fixed lunch, I jumped on the riding mower and mowed the walking paths around our place and our old ranch where we still walk. A friend is pasturing some young horses on the ranch we used to own and they are like a bunch of teenagers--a pain in the you know what! Act like you are going to open a gate to drive the mower through and here they all come to help you. I told each and every one of them today how worthless I thought they were!

It was such a beautiful day that after the mowing and garage building, we took a ride on the Honda into Big Timber. I needed to mail our Air Force granddaughter a letter, I missed the mail man at home. Her parents heard from her again yesterday and the poor girl is so homesick, my heart hurts for her.

The Crazy Mountains which are up close and personal to Big Timber. These mountains just seem to rise up out of the prairie and are very majestic looking. We can even see them from our ranch which is 22 miles from Big Timber

An Evening Primrose we spotted on our walk this morning.
A young buck mule deer that wasn't the least bit concerned about us including the yapping Schnauzer Michael was carrying so she wouldn't chase this deer.