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Family Trip Aug 2020

Day 1: We left home at 2:30 a.m. one morning in early August, and by 5:00 p.m. that day we were in Buffalo, WY.  (We only stopped a couple times on the way out.) After getting fuel and ice, we headed into the Big Horn Mountains to find a place to camp. We had intended to camp in a National Forest campground, and there were several in the area that we would be visiting. Since we had several "bumps" in our plans shortly before our trip, none of us were totally sure it would work to take this family vacation, so we hadn't reserved any campsites. We drove through 3 campgrounds and there were no openings, but because it's a national forest, dispersed camping is allowed. [In case you don't know, dispersed camping means you can camp anywhere you can find a spot as long as your vehicle is specified number of feet off the road.]   Look what we saw while looking for a campsite!!!  A mama moose (cow) and her baby (calf) munching on "moose moss".   Ha ha!  Does an...

July 2020

Hello dedicated blog readers, I looked at the calendar yesterday and realized that it's now August, [How did that happen??], and so the blog has been quiet for a whole month... I'm sorry! July seemed to go by way to fast... We were busy with normal summer things; farming, gardening (weeding, more weeding, and harvesting), a bit of hay making, a day of chicken butchering (everyone's favorite---or not!), and various random projects. Not much of it was "blog worthy"...  We have had a lot more hot humid days this summer than in the past few years, and so some of us made time to go swimming for a bit on some of those "cookers". (Thank you to our friends who let use the dock at their resort! We appreciate it!!)  However, the exciting news is that this past week, the contractors finally arrived and work has begun on repairing the red shed. I'll have pictures of that to share in the near future. The guys have been helping with that project, and also ha...