Me too!Hi all already missing Debby
but happy she is with DS
The NFC B-Day Chat Thread
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Meanwhile we barely had rain for a month (and really high temps, scorching everything) and now it's raining too much lol
Wow. Just wow!
I’m sorry you have the Wuzwells, Jae! Hope your house sells soon so you can leave the uncertainty behind.
Good morning
Sharron sorry you guys are getting so much rain at the moment. Poor little piggy!
Jae, nice of your parents to watch the kids for a bit. I hope your cold is over quickly, those are never fun.
My son got into to our house yesterdayGood news on DH coming on our Yellowstone trip...he has to wrap up some loose ends then will join us in a couple days
Off to get more coffee...
Cody is awesome! While you’re there, if you get the hankering for a good meal, The Proud Cut is our favorite place! The French Onion soup (extra cheese) is my favorite. Then stop in down the block and across the street and hit the Wyoming Buffalo Company. At the back wall of the shop is the BEST Peach/Jalapeno jam ever to come out of a kitchen, and I hate peaches and I hate jalapeños! But put a block of cream cheese on a plate, cover it with the jam, and dip crackers - eat until you’re bloated! As the kids say, OMG!!
“We'll be there a week, lots to see. We're going to stay in Cody, that was as close to the Park as I could get rooms for that length of time and Cody looks like a fun little town to check out so I'm sure we won't get bored
“Really interesting points to visit as well are the Buffalo Bill Museum of the West (no snickering - it takes two days to see this amazing place if you want to hit it all, so the name is deceptive) and the Japanese Internment Camp at Heart Mountain. That’s about a 5, 10 minute drive out of town on the main highway, but in the opposite direction from the Park, and it’s right off the highway.
Going into the Park from the East Gate, as you’ll probably do if you are staying in Cody, WATCH THE CONSTRUCTION from the Lake all the way past Fishing Bridge. It’s a mess!
I can’t believe after all my whining about you not making it up here, you’ll be staying 45 miles from here and we’ll be out of town! GRRRR
Boy, BYC messed up that series of quotes!
And as for you other two characters, as Ma used to say, “I don’t CARE who started it! If I have to come up there, I know who’ll end it!!
Hope to get a few photos uploaded before bed tonight. I’m all packed for our trip to Dubois, then we get home Wednesday, repack, and head for York Rite Sessions in Casper for 4 days. Get home, repack, and head to Idaho for 4 days at their Grand Lodge. In between the end of last trip and this one tomorrow we managed to pick apples and grapes, and I got them juiced to make jelly during our couple of days off. I’m too old for this life!!
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Oh sure! You guys were chatty as all get-out a little bit ago....I come in and POOF!
Getting late, we are all falling asleep!
I am happy i am not running here and there like you do Blooie.
My big adventure was supposed to be the swap at Glen Allen VA. This weekend. I am thinking they will change the date to the following weekend.
My big adventure was supposed to be the swap at Glen Allen VA. This weekend. I am thinking they will change the date to the following weekend.
I'm awake still
Oh, I was just teasing, Bruce....I usually miss the chit-chat stuff and don't get on until late now.
I hope the rain clears up so that you can get to the meet without swimming there, if they still have it, Cap. I sure am getting tired of this already, but it's not going to ease up any time soon so I may as well shut up and just go along and enjoy what I can.
This last trip we had a free day in Pinedale, so we went out to Boulder and saw the ranch where Ken grew up. Oh, I wanted to turn into that driveway! I wanted to tell those owners that once upon a time that entire area was nothing but 1000 acres of sagebrush;
that at 6 years old Ken was helping haul logs off the mountain and sitting out there in the hot sun peeling them, cutting them, and dipping them in creosote to use them as fence posts; that at the same age he was burning off the acres of sagebrush that Mom and Dad cut and buckraked; that there was no running water - they used to take three galvanized milk cans down to the New Fork River and fill them with water for the family; that they did that for 3 years until the well went in, and even then they hauled water from the well to the house; that there was no indoor plumbing or running water until the late 70s, when they finally had a small modular house on the ranch instead of the cinderblock basement that they started out in; that Ken, his mom and dad planted every single tree in that shelter belt and watered them by hand. I wanted them to understand that that ranch was once just a spot on a BLM map until a young man, his wife, and her three kids from a previous marriage were able to buy it and build their dream there. The kids kept coming - 10 in all counting Ken and his brother and sister. They lived in an old trailer first while Dad built the basement house, but the trailer burned down and almost took 2 of their daughters. Another small silver bullet shaped trailer was moved on to the ranch because during irrigation time in the summer the basement would flood, and the entire family spend days putting everything up on blocks, then moved into the small trailer. Mom and Dad raised 9 kids on that ranch and buried one still-born daughter. In the late 70s or early 80s they finally had a house instead of a basement or trailer.
As I sat there in the car at the end of the driveway, 50 years of memories took over and I was lost. Someday we'll go back there and I'll drive down that driveway. This one afternoon was worth all the aggravation of the trip.
The ranch then:
And now, photo taken 5 Sept 18:
I hope the rain clears up so that you can get to the meet without swimming there, if they still have it, Cap. I sure am getting tired of this already, but it's not going to ease up any time soon so I may as well shut up and just go along and enjoy what I can.
This last trip we had a free day in Pinedale, so we went out to Boulder and saw the ranch where Ken grew up. Oh, I wanted to turn into that driveway! I wanted to tell those owners that once upon a time that entire area was nothing but 1000 acres of sagebrush;
that at 6 years old Ken was helping haul logs off the mountain and sitting out there in the hot sun peeling them, cutting them, and dipping them in creosote to use them as fence posts; that at the same age he was burning off the acres of sagebrush that Mom and Dad cut and buckraked; that there was no running water - they used to take three galvanized milk cans down to the New Fork River and fill them with water for the family; that they did that for 3 years until the well went in, and even then they hauled water from the well to the house; that there was no indoor plumbing or running water until the late 70s, when they finally had a small modular house on the ranch instead of the cinderblock basement that they started out in; that Ken, his mom and dad planted every single tree in that shelter belt and watered them by hand. I wanted them to understand that that ranch was once just a spot on a BLM map until a young man, his wife, and her three kids from a previous marriage were able to buy it and build their dream there. The kids kept coming - 10 in all counting Ken and his brother and sister. They lived in an old trailer first while Dad built the basement house, but the trailer burned down and almost took 2 of their daughters. Another small silver bullet shaped trailer was moved on to the ranch because during irrigation time in the summer the basement would flood, and the entire family spend days putting everything up on blocks, then moved into the small trailer. Mom and Dad raised 9 kids on that ranch and buried one still-born daughter. In the late 70s or early 80s they finally had a house instead of a basement or trailer.
As I sat there in the car at the end of the driveway, 50 years of memories took over and I was lost. Someday we'll go back there and I'll drive down that driveway. This one afternoon was worth all the aggravation of the trip.
The ranch then:
And now, photo taken 5 Sept 18:
Love
Love the old pics. Reminds me of the place I was raised only ours wasn't as vast as this looks.
Morning all 
blooie, I loved the story and the pics.
blooie, I loved the story and the pics.
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