Question?

Michelle has been begging me to change the pictures in my heading. She says it looks like Shawn is about to shoot her off her horse. I was just curious, did any one else think that it looks that way before I wrote it? I told Michelle I'd be happy to change it when she took more pictures I wanted to use.

Beep, Beep, AAGH!!!

Ok, I reckon I shouldn't complain, I did this to myself. Over the summer, my usual get up time got later and later. However, in an effort to get back into a school routine, I've been getting up fifteen minutes earlier everyday. This morning my alarm was set for 6:45. I woke up at 6:07 wide awake but decided to lay there and figured I would be even more ready to get up when the alarm went off. I must have fallen back asleep because the next thing I knew... BEEP... BEEP ... AAGH! Why is it that you're wide awake if you wake up before the alarm but if the alarm wakes you up it is impossible to open your eyes? Oh well, I'll get used to the schedule soon enough.

Why we love Montana

It's August, the hottest month of the year, right? I just checked the weather channel website and our high this month was 86 degrees and our low 37. The low was yesterday. Our high for today is supposed to be 67 and the sun is bright and clear. We are very worried about the whole Global warming theory ;)

One other interesting notes since we are talking about unusuals. We spent a little time at the county fair this last weekend. Ashlie, our niece, had a pig that she showed and then sold in the 4-H auction. She did well and her pig sold for the average price. Not bad at all. The unusual came from the grand champion pig. A normal high sale price for a 4-H pig would be around $5 - $6. That's the usual high. This year, $21 a pound! That kid is now $6000.00 dollars richer. Just to compare, the average for most of the pigs sold was between $$800-$1200. I can't wait for Shawn to start 4-H.

Just an update

I decided it was time update my blog when I looked at it and saw that it still shows Rebel (Mack). It has been over a year that we sold him to our friend and replaced him with Miss Dee. I hear Rebel has worked out well for his new family and he has come along very nicely.

As for Miss Dee and Sandy, they are doing great and seem to be happy in Montana. Miss Dee especially has come a long ways and I enjoy a good ride three to four times a week. I'd ride more if I could. Even Shawn loves taking his turn.

When he's not riding the horses, he finds ways to entertain himself. He loves to ride his bike and play in the water and build sand castles.

I'm no great photographer but here are a couple of pictures.