July 6, 2013

My dad and his grandkids.

July 5, 2013

The barn at night.

July 4, 2013

We got some more hay in today.  You can see the second, small trailer we used back on the ridge, as well as the baler, my dad raking on a blue tractor, and I think my younger son walking up toward the baler.

July 3, 2013

Our parking lot behind the house.  Also note the lovely grey clouds that keep raining on us, every day.  We got some hay in though.

July 2, 2013

Out for a drive (and ice cream!).

July 1, 2013

There are a lot of gas wells being drilled here now.  There are big trucks, mostly large dump trucks, going by constantly, some going really fast.  This was one of the 'oversized loads'.  The berm is barely a foot wide before the hill drops off sharply on both sides at this point.  A couple of days after this, a super oversized load met two dump trucks here.  They took about 10 minutes backing up, finding a spot for one to stop and others to pass. Also later in the week, the kids started pumping their arms to get the trucks to honk.  At first I thought maybe they shouldn't 'distract' the trucks, but then realized that all the trucks were honking, which meant they saw and knew kids were around, and they seemed to slow down quite a lot after Monday.

June 30, 2013

I put several pictures together to make a panoramic view from where we parked the camper for our first camping trip.  We're staying at the farm to put in hay this week.  My husband seemed nervous about the truck making it up the big hill pulling the camper (it was fine), I was a little more worried about encountering oncoming traffic on a narrow road around a hairpin turn (fortunately I didn't!).