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I
decided that the kids and I needed some time together, away from it
all, so I took them to the ranch. We ran around all weekend long, and
had a great time. We love the ranch! One of the first things we did was
go for a hike. We decided to hike up to Ron's place (free fresh
eggs!!!), following a non-direct route. This was taken in a wash
somewhere.
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Ron
and Sherry are finally building a house. Sherry has never had a house
before in her life, so this is a big deal for them. I took these
pictures of the inside of the house, so that we'll be able to remember
what it looked like when it all started.
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The
girls got to gather the eggs themselves. They loved it. I sent the
camera in with Roo, to capture the event. Had I not done this, my wife
would have likely yelled at me!
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All the pretty chickens!
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The inside of one of the coops.
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We roasted hot dogs (Meg calls them "Hot-Diggities"). They were yummy...
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This
is the inside of a culvert. It is the culvert under the road between my
place and Jason's place. Jacob always likes to crawl through this thing.
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This
is a picture of the new catchment just northeast of "Petroglyph
Mountain". See the water? They pile up dirt all aound a wash, and when
it rains it makes a pond (at for a little while). Then the cows have
something to drink.
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I
know, I know. We already have billions and billions of pictures taken
from on top of "Petroglyph Mountain". Well, here are a few more.
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Who is this guy?
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Here
it is! The picture that you've all been waiting for! After much
patience on your part, I am glad to finally be able to announce that
you can now see two huge and horny locusts mating!
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On the way back from "Petroglyph
Mountain", we met two of our neighbors, Dave and Lupe. They were out
hunting for arrowheads. They have a "gem screen", into which they dumpo
a shovel full of dirt at a time. The kids got into this, and ended up
picking through all manner of rocks and pebbles, in search of an
arrowhead. I think the kids actually found one...
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Good
news for Jacob. Dave also gave Jacob this lariat (a.k.a. a lasso). He
loves it. This might cause problems later on (lassoing of sisters,
etc), but he'll have lots of fun with it! Note that this is a real
lariat, not just normal rope with a loop at the end (the rope is very
stiff).
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Jacob managed to lasso a fence post.
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OK.
These are really cool, and I've always been facinated by them. This is
a praying mantis. I found it on one of my trees, took a picture of it,
and them picked it up. These things are really fast. It ran up my arm
and almost made it inside of my shirt before I could catch it (that
would have given me the heebee-geebees).
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