September at the Rich Ranch

Zac has been doing alot of hiking with friend, Stan Durrant in preparation for a big hike at the end of the month.  This is a upper red castle lake high in the Uintas.   He hiked this on September 15th

The next week (on the 22nd), he and Stan hiked the Great Western Trail, starting near Highway 193 in Layton, and going up on the mountains (that we can see from Morgan to the west), and walking along top of those mountains, clear down to Emigration Canyon at the top of Big Mountain.  This picture shows they approaching the Radar towers. 

This picture shows Porterville in the valley in the far background. 

Treyson is still working out regularly

And he turned 19 years old on the 29th !!
Here he is with Grandma and Grandpa D

Also, on that day, the wind came up and blew the empty swimming pool (just emptied two days earlier), and ruined it :(

Happy  19th Treyson 

Doesn't look like much dog watching here ! 

And guess who got a NEW used car ?
Tagg had to come and show Grandpa Roger

Proud Boy 

 

Football continues for Thatcher..............

And for Tagg too !
Grandma Shirlee photo bombing

Thatcher on homecoming parade float with his football team. 

Tagg's turn ! 

Homecoming with Bella Dickman

Great group of friends 

Miscellaneous happenings in August

The squash bugs killed our pumpkin and squash crop.
We lost 99% of our crop.  So disappointing.

Rog is working so hard - he is really tired at the end of the day.
It's hard with the boys back at school and football, and the bulk of the mowing falls to him. 

I'm so happy we live in such a beautiful valley as Morgan.  We are BLESSED.

I got Paris and Azula all shaved up............and then we lost baby CHA CHA (not Chi Chi).  Paris had Cha Cha, and she was poorly from the start.  Lived about a month, then died :(  We gave Cha Cha to Annette Prescott, and then decided we were going out of the goat business.  Paris and Azula headed on down the road to a good home courtesy of Steve Bell. 

We planted Giant sunflowers from last year's Giant Sunflower seeds.  They have grown so tall, and we love them !! 

The garden crop is on.  Corn, Cucumbers, Tomatoes - YUM 

I made a beautiful Apple pie.  It was delicious.  Made from apples from Mom's tree.

I'm cutting back on office work at the Assessor's office, in preparation for my retirement in October.  I've been out helping Roger (The Yard Master) - I guess you could call me  The Yard Mistress (haha).

Canning is always fun.
Roger is such a good help to me.
We did salsa, tomato juice, and sauer kraut

Aaron Venz showed us how to dry out onions ! 

Landon and Kacey went with Yvonne and Steve (their neighbors) to an island resort in the Caribbean.  They had a great time. 

Landon and Kacey's family had Lagoon season passes again

Fun times on Rattle Snake Rapids

Not sure which MLB park, or who that player was..........
But Landon was there for work I think.

Splitting some rotten wood - NO FUN

Glad the boys could help. 

Starting another project.  I think it's called, "Clean out the shed and kill the wasps and mice!"

Tagg and Thatcher still go to The Weight Room
This is Tagg's group

Zac and CJ got a Jeep Rubicon.  They plan to go on some "Jeeping" adventures.

Kelly Wilson and Haslam are going to be the new wrestling coaches this year.  Roger is talking with them after a football game. 

Treyson is a Senior, and is playing on the Defensive line

Tagg is a Sophomore, and plays the same position

Thatcher has many friends who also have older brothers who play for MHS.
They have a great time at the games watching. 

Thatcher is playing too in WFFL

 

May happenings with the Rich crew in Morgan

We lit the burn pile

Cleaned the ditch at Round Valley

With the help of the County, got a HUGE log out of the creek

 

Thatcher had a mishap - ran into a basketball standard playing night games with friends

Had to have stitches

Thatcher at a 7 or 7 football competition

Baseball for Thatcher

Cleaning up the RZR - getting ready to sell it. 

Weight Room for Tagg and Thatcher

Memorial Day