Summer happenings

This blog begins at midnight looking north beside our barn house.  This is not aurora.  It is the dusk at the point of turning into dawn.

The biggest news is the three grandkids helping prepare Grandma and Grandpa's old house at 933 Rangeview for the big move from Boston back to Montana. They'll arrive in September.  Guess who they are?

Yes, Hannah, Toby, and Caleb.

And we had our first board meeting of the new Bighorn Valley Health Center. We have great hopes for improved health care  delivery in our community!

Our John Deere.  We sold the Allis 180 diesel and bought this 4020.  It bales very nice, 8 speed hydro trans, 4 speeds in reverse.

We attended the National Native Ministries conference at Ashland, where Dave presented on indigenous hymns of the Crow and Cheyenne, and yes, that's Bonnie, with our good friends from decades ago in Busby.  

We can't seem to avoid the wind in summer.  I placed large square straw bales west of the garden.  But the storm winds came from the north. 

The chickens we bought as babies love our weeds.  We have a conflict.  The chickens won.  But they will soon start losing their heads, as soon as they have depleted more of the grasshoppers.  The experiment in our garden was successful until they discovered the tomatoes.  

The wind that flattened the corn did this to Dr. Dave's tipi.  We have rescued what's left to get it repaired for next summer.  Care to come try it out at Crow Fair 2011?