BOLT LOOSE?????

Last month I escaped and went to BUNKO with Teri Ivie. I never take my cell phone because I do not want to be found, or bugged. Jenny called Teri's phone and told me to get home because there was a bolt loose at the horse barn, and Joel wanted me to get there quick. I looked at Teri and said--what do I have to do with a loose bolt? Then I could hear Jenny repeating the phone message: A BULL MOOSE! OK-- we all screamed and got excited because that is big deal to see a moose! So we get to the barn, and there in the dark is this huge moose just looking at us. Some of the neighbors were there taking it all in. Joel had gone to feed the horses late in the evening and when he got there the horses were acting "funny". They did not greet him at the gate, and they were running around, not even interested in eating. He hung around for a while and then heard something that had just jumped into the canal nearby. Oh boy--what he saw next was being face to face to a bull moose. He could not believe his eyes. We called Wildlife Resources and they said they could not get the moose in the dark--wait until the morning. The next morning at about 5:00 a.m. Joel went back over the the horses, and our friend was gone. He got a phone call later in the morning that said the moose had been caught down the way at Timpangos High School football field. Our moose friend had been down here twice before, as he had two tags on his ear. Three strikes and you are out---they took him far away. He was on KUTV that night and on the KUTV web site too. We had just returned from a short trip to Teton Park/Yellowstone, and we did not see one moose. That was a big disappointment for me, as moose are my favorite animal, and I love to take pictures of them. Anyone who hunts and kills a moose is not my friend-------

Utah State Fair 2006

The cowboy, Natalie, Jayda and myself went to the state fair this year. We were there about twenty minutes when we ran into the Wimmer's--of all people. We were all there on Sunday.--skipping out on church. It is easy to skip church........ anyway it was fun to run into family. Jayda enjoyed all the livestock, especially the pigs. I think our family was the only ones there with all of our front teeth and no tatoos....... All kinds come out on Sunday. Maybe we should have gone to church after all.

Willie Handcart Company

Today is the 150 year anniverary of the rescue of the Willie Handcart Company. This picture was taken at sunset at the Parowan, Utah cemetary, at the grave of Christian Rasmussen, who married Mette Mortensen --who survived the ordeal, along with her whole family. Mette is buried next to Christian--but her tombstone is flat to the ground, so it cannot be seen. Christian and Mette Rasmussen are my great-great grandparents.