We painted at Don Luigi's Monday morning early starting around midnight! We finished around 11am. Here I am painting on the chalk board paint. Wyatt was at home tending/sleeping, Kevin.

It is a community chalk board where the kids, or anyone, can come and make comments or leave messages for their friends. We also drew a cartoon town map that includes some of the note worthy locations around town. And of course our favorite note worthy location. The Mortensen Castle!!! See more on the girls blogs!!

Row Row Row Your Boat Gently Around the Pond

Wyatt and I are working on getting the pump set up again so that we can irrigate the pasture, so that we can disc it, so that we can try to plant it once again. We have planted it 3 times over the last 16 years and never had a good pasture or much of anything actually come up. I would like it to be green and nice and easily mowed so that it will look nice. Is that too much to ask for?

We had to row out to where we needed to drop the intake and it was so much fun we decided to take a spin around the pond. Who can that actractive couple be?

Working in the Yard and a home improvement project!

Got lots of helpers at the Castle

Kevin helping water down the sand after we got it in place!

Tadum! We painted an old 55 gallon drum to cover the septic cleanout and Kevin helped!!Part of the work crew after the mud bogging contest, he won!

Grandpa Clell fixed our shield,we painted it and Grandpa Castle hung it up and put the swords in.

We think it looks very cool.

Vacation/Family Reunion in Emery

While we were in Emery we took a couple of 4-wheeler rides. We saw lots of beautiful country. It is out there in the middle of no where, I would hate to get lost because the country is so vast. We scoped out some places that we would like to take everyone next time we are all there. The sand dunes were especially fun and not far off I-70, Grandpa knows the way.

Out there in the middle of nowhere there were great roads and road signs, it is funny to see them because it really is in the middle of nowhere, I mean nothing in sight, ever!!

Grandpa showed us where Butch Cassidy hid out when he came through the area. Some say it is spelled incorrectly so it is not authentic, but it was fun to go see.

Don't you wonder what was happening when the world was forming? Here sits this huge rock in the middle of nowhere, all by itself with nothing like it around. Farther down the trail there is this shale rock that looks as though it was standing in one tall thin sheet and then tipped over and broke into big puzzle pieces. If you could move them you could put the sheet back together. Then there are these big round black volcanic balls that look like they rained down over the top of the shale, but there doesn't seem to be a volcano near by, so strange. I can't imagine what was occurring to make that type of formation. Very cool and very worth the trip to go see.

Dad and I raced with his Sportsman to see who could get the farthest up the sand dunes..............................I won!!!! You guys would love these, especially if we brought Nick and Sammy's bikes. It would be a fun picnic spot for the kids and probably be warm in the late fall since it is on the south side and pretty hot in July. It was a cloudy day and a storm was brewing so not too hot especially when you were moving along. I love to go riding and see the country. The two 4-wheeler trips we took were just what I needed and recharged my batteries, which were running pretty low. Fun Fun Fun!!! I love 4-wheeling and seeing the country, Dad loved it too!