Still branding July 20

Dusty and Pake. TA branding. 

Chris's kids watching. 

Fischer tending the branding irons at the TA branding. 

The kids enjoyed helping with their dad's help!!

Big rain this afternoon. The Elk Mtn folks are trying to put up hay. 

Branding day July 7

Scott turns 37 today. 

Grandson Clayton age 17. 

Lots going on. 

Chris on the left. Fuzzy cell phone pictures emailed to me. 

July 2

KHazen got the bad idea to jump from the top of the slide onto the trampoline. 

It dislocated his bone at the elbow. They drugged him and put it back in. When he woke up he said mom is nice!  

So cute the girls running through the wild flowers after lunch. 

Nice surprise June 28

We went to Laramie, June 27. George saw the Orthopedist. He did a MRI and CT scan. Haven't seen results yet. I thought I better check the cucumbers in the greenhouse!  We better get to eating cucumbers!

June 21. Heading to Cody

This picture was one of the last times that all my kids were together with us at the same time it was June 2015. We got a nice family picture that year! We were all together at Nelda's funeral in December, but didn't think of it while we were all together. 

The morning started out so hopefully....... But ......

Plans change.

George had said "I'll be home in a half hour to leave." I had everything in the camper and truck all ready to go. Then when he was setting his last irrigation dam, George slipped on some mossy concrete slabs in the creek, fell and hit his back on a piece of concrete. He couldn't walk, he was able to call on the cell phone, he was way down a bumpy road,  we had to call the ambulance. 

They had to carry him across the creek. 2 highway patrol, 3 Sherriff, and 3 ambulance people came. 3 men from the TA came riding up on horseback. 

They tested for blood in the urine. There was none, so sent him home. They said he must have just bruised the muscle. We aren't crazy about Rawlins hospital. They don't have a good reputation, but are the closest. He can hardly walk. Hope they are right. 

5 days later when George could finally limp around on crutches, he and Clayton visited the scene of the accident. Here is the pointed rock that pierced the muscle in his back. No bruise or mark on the outside. 

A few from Chugwater June 15-18

Cracking dozens of eggs Wednesday night. The cousins in Grandpa's camper. 

Willis and George picked Pres up at the nursing home this morning in Cheyenne. They brought him back to Chugwater for 2 meetings and greetings from a lot of his friends. Lizzie here giving him some hugs. 

June 10

Today is Jeff and Lisa's 22nd anniversary.

The game wardens truck not far from the ranch. 

George came upon this little deer in the meadow. It got to squawking when Buddy came near.