Camping

We loaded up the camper & sxs and headed out for the cousin reunion 

Stopped at Hyak to explore the old train tunnel

Soren thought that was pretty cool

Camped at Liberty for the night

It was about 97* so the guys had fun panning for gold in the creek

Arrived at Conconnully at 2:30pm Friday

Went out for a night ride with cousin Kyle, Brooke & their son Blake

Friday morning went up to China Wall

Then explored the old Gold mine above the wall

I picked up CUTE new PJs for the trip

 

Horses This Week

I love my horses!

Wifi is used to the fact that she will spend most of her day inside the round pen, not eating all the pasture grass. We let her out for an hour each morning and then she will walk into the pen from wherever she is in the pasture. Then she lets us put the fly mask onto her head.

Joey lets me put the fly mask on him as well.

Ambleside doesn't like the fly mask, she doesn't like fly spray & she doesn't like dewormer either.

 

Summer Fun

The greenhouse is built and there are a few plants in it.

There is 1 bell pepper plant

there are 11 sweet peppers

and there are about 10 pot plants

Outside the greenhouse there is a raised bed full of potato plants

There is a bed with a few volunteer tomatoes

and there is a bed with more volunteer tomatoes and basil, chives, a different pepper and something else

We went for a drive up to Mt Rainier yesterday and that was NICE. Took the car out to Enumclaw to pick up some tools for his work and then out Hwy 165 to Evans Creek. The road to Mowich Lake is closed and thats a bummer.

Wifi had gotten way too fat so I put her on a diet. Shes lost about 200 lbs and looks good but shes still very lame and it might be Navicular. Shes in the round pen 90% of the time they're in pasture and I'm feeding her grass hay. Joey & Amble are on the grass and get alfalfa at night in the barn.

This photo was from February.

 

Greenhouse

 The greenhouse isn't finished yet, we took that 2.5 week long Vegas Desert vacation and even though we've been home a week, I just haven't gotten back out there to finish it. Most of the metal is put together. We still need to assemble the doors and the ceiling vents.

Every time we work on it we get into an argument.

Vegas Never Disappoints

 

These photos aren't of Vegas; thats because we don't spend a lot of time in the city. These are a few of the 500+ photos I took of our trip.

Pink gun is the smallest gun I've ever seen & it honestly shoots.

Silver City, Idaho

Mining

Sunsets

We get up & stay up to see as many sunrises and sunsets as we can

Yellowstone

I got a ladder out of this mine but not THIS ladder

I wonder if it can pierce the skin?

Las Vegas, Again

We've got our week in Las Vegas reserved for May

We didn't want to go but we will be there in May just so our week doesn't go to waste. 

We'll take the RV and SXS again

I'm hoping we can go to Pioche & visit Jon.

 

New Additions

We bought a green house

I've been wanting one for a few years

This is a map of the yard & the spots where it might go and the requirements:

Can't block sight of the barn or chicken coop

Needs to be close to water

Maybe close to electricity

Must be close to garden

Must be convenient

Must NOT be under trees

NEEDS sunshine

PINK is by barn runs, close to water & electric but block view of horses

LITE PURPLE was my 1st choice but blocks view of horses

LITE BLUE is everything but too shady

PURPLE too far away

We're going to move the two raised beds on the right and move them to the bottom left 

& put the green house on the right. 

That way we can see the barn, horse runs & coop, 

its close to water, electricity & house and get plenty of sunshine.

The yellow circles are trees that need to be taken out and they still will but we're taking out the fence first and thats happening as I write this. 

I'll be taking out the first raised bed after I'm done with this blog and when I finish watching 

Catching Fire on Netflix

Heres the Green House as it arrived, its 8 feet long and about 200 lbs

Here is another view of where it will end up and the two beds we will move. I'm going to shovel the dirt into the other beds and use it to fill in holes in the ground; the ground has sunk since we have moved here and that might be from buried stumps.

The fence around the back yard was here to keep the dogs contained was here for 8 years but John Henry died and Havva is old and the fence rotted so its being removed. 

The two beds are being moved parallel to the two on the top right and the green house will be on the bottom right 

I'm planning on hanging lights like this in it so it will be cute