It's late but I want to finish up out trip to Wyoming.  When we left for Utah we took another route and saw some very awesome country.  OMG the mountains!
And yes, there was a lot of snow still up there.

This was at a rest area at the border of WY and UT.

On the 4th of July before we left for Utah we had breakfast with the family at their ward 4th of July breakfast.  Mason participated in the color guard before breakfast started.

One day while we were in Laramie we went up to Rob Roy Reservoir.  It's way up in the top of the mountains.  On the way we were held up by a real cattle drive crossing the road.

There were A LOT of people on horses.  We decided more than there really needed to be because all the younger ones were just standing around on their horses watching while the older ones were doing all the work!

It was fun to watch.

It seemed like it took forever to get up to Rob Roy but we had a fun time -

Ate lunch, let the kids play in the water and I found a whole bunch of rocks.

I forgot to take pictures of my stack of rocks but they sure look nice in my flower beds.  I'll take some pictures of them there!

The beetles have destroyed a lot of the trees up in that area.  The trees across the lake from where we had a picnic lunch were mostly dead. You can see that there was still snow up there too.

This tree was just below where we ate lunch

This was a tree that was blown over and the part sticking up just came up out of the middle of the tree.  It was kind of unique, I thought.

This is what the beetles do to the trees

Paige sitting on the log where we sat to eat lunch

After lunch the kids played in the water

Jodi was trying to teach the kids how to skip rocks.

Here's Paige trying to do it.

Up a ways from the log we sat on to eat lunch I found this cross.

I couldn't read the name that was written down the center but the death year was 2002 on the right side of the cross.  The birth year was on the left but I can't remember what it was.  I just thought it odd to had a grave way up there in the middle of no where.  Probably a logging accident was my thought. 

Trying to catch up - almost don't know where to begin!
  The last of June, first of July we took a trip to Laramie to take Cheyenne to live with Shawn & Heather.  We were a little worried about how she would do in the car since she hasn't been accustom to riding in the car so Shawn sent us some sedative for her.  Instructions were to give her one an hour before leaving and if it didn't do much give her another one.  After an hour she wasn't very calm and so when we were filling up with gas we gave her another one.  When we had the window rolled down a little she had her nose out smelling and enjoying the ride!
We were actually past Mountain Home before she really started settling down then she was pretty good.
   It seemed that she was a little too calm though and we decided two pills might have been a little bit too much.  By the time we got to Neil & Shirley's she was still pretty passive.  We took her to a park and threw the ball for her for a while.  She would run to get it then just walk back with it for a while.
Here's pictures of her on the trip.

This is was taken on the first day.
She kept wanting to put her head
up between Jim & I.

Second day.  We only gave her one pill and she did much better.  She got to where when we stopped she would jump right back up in the car when we were ready to go.

This is my favorite picture of her.

So this is Cheyenne's new home.

 Driveway going up to the house. Shop on the left

This is the house.  Could have taken a closer picture but didn't!

 This is the horse arena that is on the other side of the driveway from the house.  I took the picture from the driveway of the house.  

 This is the back yard, of course.

This is the field beyond the back yard.  Down where the grass is greener is a water area.  Just recently I was talking with Heather and she said Cheyenne goes down to the water three or more times a day and plays in the water.

She also roams around out in the field and hunts the little creatures living out there.  She has caught prairie dogs and brought one up to the house and left as a peace offering!!  She use to do that with mice when we lived on Pit.

On Father's Day (15th) we had family over for dinner.  Mae & Harold were actually up to coming and I think they had a good time.

 It was a very nice day so we set everything up outside and had an outside picnic.  We had ham, potatoes, salads, garlic bread, etc., etc!

Jodi and the kids ate on their picnic quilt.

Our friends, Jerry & Virginia McCardell joined us because they didn't have anything else better to do!!
  Our thought I got a picture of Grandma and Grandpa but apparently not.  They are sitting at the table where Lynn is.

After dinner activity - Adam decided to bury Rebecca in the sand!!!

Yesterday (5-31) we spent the day taking the tree down in the back yard.  Luke Henry came and helped which was greatly appreciated.  If the tree had been to the north about 10 feet we probably would have left it but when we move the swing set it will partly be where the tree stump is.

We got all of the branches from the tree into the pickup with the help of Luke climbing up on top and mashing things down a few times. Jim will take the load to the dump tomorrow.

Here's what's left.

The tree in the back corner that is on the back neighbors property had a limb up, about in the middle of it, that was broken.  It hung down over part of the fence and into the lilacs of our neighbor on the south side.  We talked Luke into climbing up in the tree and cut off the limb.  At first he wasn't so sure about it. Tried to tell us he was afraid of heights!  Then he was afraid he was going to fall out of the tree.  This is kind of a nasty tree.  The limbs are really hard to cut, even the little ones.  As he was going up the tree he had to cut out little dead branches that were attacking him.  But here he is doing his best with a little hand saw cutting that broken branch off.

We invited him to have dinner with us. Since his folks have been gone to Utah for  a step sisters graduation we invited him and his sister over for dinner.  I fixed hamburgers earlier in the day and all I had to do was throw them on the grill.  Good thing too.  Otherwise I don't know what we would have had!

We were so tired last night it was all I could do to actually take a shower.

We've been busy around here.  I didn't think it was going to be so hard to work up the flower beds in the back for some garden.
  Last Monday I spent all day doing this little section to plant cucumbers and squash.  I used the shovel, the claw, the hoola hoe and was so tired I couldn't think straight.  There is a lady up at the end of Howard that has rabbits and Ginny pigs.  We went up there and got some rabbit manure but I'm sure it wasn't enough.  We really need to add nutrients to this soil.

This is part of it done.  Still need to put the squash in.

Tuesday I kept telling myself I needed to get out there and work the ground for the tomatoes but just couldn't bring myself to it.  I was busy Wed. morning but had a thought of a friend that has a little Mantis tiller and got up the courage to call her.  She said they lost a bolt on one of the handles but it still worked.  I asked if we fixed the handle, could we use it.

So we went and got the Mantis.

In a matter of about 1 1/2 hours Jim worked up an area bigger than the area I worked on Monday and it was so much better.  

I got the tomatoes planted but was planting cantaloupe nearly in the dark at 9:45

and I wasn't nearly as tired as Monday night.  Jim on the other hand was tired.  I so appreciated his help though.

While he was tilling I was pulling tree roots out.  Not sure where they were coming from, most likely the tree in the back corner in the neighbors yard.

 We started pulling this long root in the middle of it and had to cut it off at the fence and it ran all the way to where I have squash planted.  It was hard to pull up too.

I have been doing some looking at information on raised bed gardening and saw several ideas about putting tomatoes on something to climb instead of in cages so I'm experimenting with having them on farm fence this year.

I decided to see how zucchini would do in a barrel.