Who Is That Guy?

We've been having some great moisture (lots of snow) the last few weeks, so everything is very damp. So Dean decided it would be a perfect day to burn our many wood/brush piles around the ranch. First up was the "big fire" up by the poop pile. Flames got so high, we could see the tip of the flames over the tops of the trees WHILE sitting at the desk in the office!!!! It was HUGE!!! But safe of course. :)

Pictures are of the smaller brush piles along the river where Dean has been doing alot of clearing over the winter. As you can see from Dean's outfit, it was a bit chilly, so head gear was needed. We still love ya Dean! :) Our friend John, is the photographer this time with his I-Phone.

More Pictures from Karen & Tiffany's Adventure

Kansas Girls.....Know How To Get It Done

Karen and I had the pleasure of heading to South Park last week to feed horses. We weren't sure what we'd run into as the ranch got about 7 inches of snow, so we were a little nervous that South Park would be worse. Thankfully, they only had an inch at the most, but the snow that had already been there had drifted some from the wind. We were only a couple hundred yards from our gate to enter the pasture, when we hit a huge drift and got stuck in Dean's truck. Twenty minutes later, after much shoveling, the truck was free and we were ready to enter the pasture. However, there was one more drift standing in our way right in front of the gate. Karen stepped up to the plate to drive through this drift and you could tell by the roar of the engine, the spinning tires, and the determined look on Karen's face.....NOTHING was going to keep her from getting through that drift. "The look" clearly stated that we were not about to get stuck again. :) Karen plowed through that snow like you've never seen before in your life! She busted through and handled the truck and the snow like a champ! She later stated her "mad skills" came from the many years of dealing with the mud in Kansas from the dirt roads. :) It was too fun to see her "in action." Karen can do it all!

So, after a full morning of shoveling snow at the ranch, plowing the driveway, getting unstuck and feeding horses in South Park, we had a pretty full day. But with lots of laughs, great pictures, and some fun memories...it was all worth it. Two Kansas girls can handle anything that is thrown at them. :)

Curious Creatures

We were graced this morning with the site of a lone coyote. It was just cruising out back behind the house, sniffing around in the snow looking for food I'm sure. Pepper of course alerted us all that there was something outside with her keen senses (Yes...even though she is getting up there in age, she can still hear a few things. Although we do believe she is very familiar with the ever-famous "selective hearing"). :) So, we made sure to keep her inside while the coyote roamed about. Enjoy the pictures. Karen is the famous photographer of course. :)

It Worked!!!!

Ok.....I think I did it! After signing up to receive email notifications of new posts on our blog, I finally received an email this afternoon with the two posts from yesterday. So it did take about 24 hours to let me know, but IT WORKED!!! I will post this just for a second "trial run" to make sure, but hopefully all is good now. Thank you for your patience!

Newbie

Ok...to be honest, I'm still learning so much about all this blogging, social networking stuff. So this is kind of a "test post" to see if my new additions to our blog work. I added a Feedburner to the blog to see if those that are already followers can now sign up to get automatic emails when a new post is made (since blogger doesn't automatically do this). I also added a "widget" (like my new vocabulary?) where you can just sign up for email subscriptions of when new posts are made. Naturally, I signed myself up for the email subscriptions, will post this, check my email to see if it works, and hope to goodness it does. Everyone cross your fingers. :)

What Are Those Big Brown Things Out There?

Finally....we get to see some elk!! They've been hiding all winter long. Last Friday, coming home from Tyler's ski meet, the May's were able to see a huge herd of elk in South Park!! Way to cool! We are glad they are still sticking around. They are incredible animals. Looks like there was at least one bull in the group, just a little spike, but they are probably starting to begin to lose their horns for the season. Enjoy the great photos!! Don't forget to enjoy the mountains. :)