Blizzard 2009

Well we were pretty much housebound yesterday. We had a blizzard blow through and it dumped about 12 inches of snow on us yesterday. I think that every road in the county was closed yesterday, and not a lot of them have opened up yet today. I took some pictures yesterday and some more this morning so you could see the drifts that we have out here. I would say that we have them anywhere from three to six feet high around the place. We have six foot chain link fence around the yard so you can use that to judge how deep the drifts are.

Also we are hoping that Abbie has her puppies today. She is due tomorrow and she has been real restless this morning. She is panting real hard, so Bob hopes she will have them pretty soon. I will send you pictures of the puppies when they come.

Julie

Bob's Weekend

Well this has been a really busy weekend. Bob's dog, Abbie, is going to have puppies in a couple of weeks, so we spent the weekend getting her whelping shed and bed all ready to go. It was a lot of work, but we think it turned out really nice. Bob is really honing his carpentry skills lately.
It was a gorgeous weekend to be outside (it was over 60 degrees yesterday, and the same today. The bad thing is we are supposed to get a snowstorm starting tonight and on into late Monday or early Tuesday. We are supposed to get about 6 inches of snow with the wind blowing at 25 to 35 miles an hour. Talk about a change in the weather! Maybe it will snow so much that they will close the roads and we won't have to go to work!!!!Oh well, it will melt and be out of here by next weekend.
Hope everyone is good.
Bob and Julie

PS. there are pictures and I will get them up later today, sorry

What have we been up to?

The first picture is of Bob working on the deck for James' house. The old one was getting pretty rotten so we decided that a new one was needed. We had to tear the old one completely down and start from scratch. We had hoped to just be able to replace the deck boards, but when we got into the tear down process we realized that everything was rotten. So we ended up building it from the ground up. I think we were able to save ONE of the posts, but that was it.
The next few pictures is of our road trip to Cabelas. Bob has been wanting a new varmint gun, so we decided to drive down and see what they had. BAD IDEA (for me at least). You will see that Bob got a new Thompson Center Arms gun in a 204 Ruger caliber. And of course he needed to get a new scope to go on his gun, so he got the Leupold VX1 4x12x40. I don't know what that all means, but he is happy with it. I got a new set of dishes, so it wasn't a complete loss.
That is what we have been up to for about the last two to three weeks. The weather has been pretty nice here. Up into the 50's and 60's for the most part.
Hope everyone is doing well.
Bob and Julie

Bob's Camping

Hello to all. Just a quick note to say HI to everyone and to let you know what is going on in Wyoming.
We went camping with some friends over the Labor Day weekend. The boys decided that it would be a good time to sight in their rifles on a few prairie dogs. Bob put the camper on his pickup, loaded up the four wheeler and we were on our way. We went up past Medicine Bow on some BLM land where the boys like to go antelope hunting. There is a nice open space where we can park the campers and trailers. They are a bunch of trails up there that we can take the four wheelers on to get back into the hills and hunt for prairie dogs. We found quite a few to test our aim out on. Bob even got to use his shooting sticks on some of them.
Some other friends of ours came by to have supper with us on Saturday night. They were out driving around hunting up a few prairie dogs and stopped by to see what we had found. They stayed for a while and we even got to roast some marshmallows over the camp fire.
We were going to stay until Monday morning, but a pretty nasty cold front came through on Sunday morning and it started raining so we packed up and came home that afternoon.
Hope everyone is well and I will send you more pictures etc as the hunting seasons progress.
Bob and Julie

hi from Bob

Hello All,
I just wanted you to know that Bob just got back from Alaska. He was invited to go by a friend of ours. Our friend was planning to go with his brother, but his brother couldn't go so he asked Bob if he would like to go with him. I had to force Bob to go (ha ha), but like I told him, it isn't often that you get the chance to go to Alaska for ten days and fish for salmon and halibut, so if you get invited you need to go.
They flew out of Denver on the 13th of June, flew into Anchorage, and then took a small plan on to Kenai. There they were met by our friend's son, and they stayed at his house for ten days. They went salmon fishing on the Kenai river and fished for halibut out of Anchor Point and Dry Creek.
They also drove over to Whittier Alaska and set shrimp pots and trolled on the ocean for halibut and salmon. They actually slept in a tent right off of Prince Edward Sound. There was still a lot of snow up there, so much for global warming.
They had a really good time and Bob wants to go back again next summer.
Hope you enjoy the pictures.
Julie

OOPS

Hi All
When I saw the pictures posted on the blog I realized that I had messed up and had not sent the right ones.I was going to send this one, it shows the diggers alot better than any of the other ones.
Hope everyone had a wonderful Easter. It was about 55 degrees here yesterday. It was about the same today,but the wind was blowing pretty good so it didn't seemas nice. We are supposed to get some snow towards the middle of the week. We sure could use a good snowstorm. We haven't had much snow yet this year.
Hope everyone is well.
Bob and Julie

Antelope

Okay, I finally went to WalMart and got these pictures downloaded onto a disc.
Bob went antelope hunting last fall, and this is what he brought home. He and some friends went up for a day hunt. They went up past Medicine Bow, and it is a pretty long drive, so they had to get up really really early.
He wants to get the head mounted, but unfortunately ruined the cape when he shot it. He is going to shoot another one just next year to get a good cape. You can see in one of the pictures that he shot it right behind the shoulder and for a full shoulder mount that is too far forward, so unless the taxidermist has a spare cape he is going to have to wait for a cape.
We hope that you all have a wonderful Easter.
Bob and Julie