“If we keep no diary [journal], the path crumbles away behind us as our feet leave it; and days gone by are but little more than a blank, broken by a few distorted shadows. Life is all confined within the limits of to-day….”
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| Landon and Kacey and kids, along with Jordyn and Cody and their baby, traveled with friends to the tiny island of Bantayan, which is north of their island. Looks like they had a relaxing couple of days. |
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| Hopefully we'll get some more pics soon ! |
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| Manda and Cam ran/walked with Therese and Elle in the Arizona Heart Walk, which is held in downtown Phoenix. They close off the streets, and the walkers/runners take over! Looks like they had a great time :) |
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| Friday afternoon we decided to get the piles we had raked up the previous Saturday picked up. These boys sure had a great time. When they get along, they are the best buds, and have the best time together. |
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| Mom liked my pink jacket so much, that I ordered her one. I think they will be our usual attire for cleaning up at the property when it's cooler. They are so warm ! I sure love her ! |
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| Hard Worker |
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| Thatcher was running around everywhere, we had him climb up on the zip line platform to keep him contained :) |
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| Treyson is getting to be a great helper. He said he's got some of his "Dad" in him, and he wants to be a hard worker like him. |
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| One of many trips to the burn pile |
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| He loves the 4-wheeler! Whenever it starts up as we move from pile to pile, he is like Pavlov's dog, and comes a running ! |
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| I don't know WHAT he's doing here......but I told Zac to put a hand on him just in case ! |
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| The kids love the fire...........and now Tagg has discovered the AXE !! Hope he doesn't lose a finger ! |
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| We keep a pretty good eye on him. He's a great helper for Grandpa D, and saves him bending down alot. |
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| Today (Saturday), we cleaned out the DITCH and the PIT, which I have now renamed THE PIT FROM HELL. All of those soggy leaves - YUCK !!! Mom was up to the house fixing lunch, and when we went up I informed her, she was NEVER to do this alone again (as she has in past years). It's just too hard. |
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| Can you believe the pile of leaves? Just from the upper PIT area, NOT in the ditch itself. |
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| Zac and Roger D. got the last of the posts tamped in, and then started on the ends. |
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| Tagg managed to fall in the creek, which resulted in a quick trip home to change. Scared him more than anything, and boy was he WET and MUDDY ! |
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| The fence is LOOKING GOOD !! |
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| With a little help from everyone............. |
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| Mostly ZAC :) |
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| Ryan and DeeDe Pace's boys came up from their property to play. Boy did these FIVE BOYS have a wild and crazy time. |
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| MONKEYS in a TREE |
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| Right at the end, while they were putting up the gates, Zac accidentally slammed the gate into his nose. BLOOD EVERYWHERE !! ....but he didn't stop working of course. |
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| They hurried and finished up, and we quit for the day. It was cold, and we were tired. We love to hang out and work at the Property. It was a great couple of days. |
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| No - we aren't going to visit these cuties ;) Wish............. |
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| Payson |
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| Brightyn |
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| Bantayan Island They, along with their parents are going to visit THIS lovely tropical Island from Friday to Sunday. In fact, they left earlier this afternoon...... (their Friday morning - 5am) |
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| They traveled about 3 hours by car to the north of the Island, and then got on another boat for another 3 hours. |
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| Don't know if they travelled by THIS kind of boat............ |
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| or this kind................HOPEFULLY this one :) |
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| Looks fun and inviting ! |
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| Wonder what kind of accomodations they will have................ |
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| It will be fun to see the pics they send, right? |
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| Looks absolutely BEAUTIFUL !!! We'll keep you posted, checkout FACEBOOK, becuase they said they would be posting pics !! |
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| Measuring himself on the pole at the corner of Grandpa D's property |
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| They went fishing a little earlier in the day - no luck... |
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| On the zip-line platform |
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| This is how is started............... |
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| And this is how it ended.......16 down - in the ground........34 more to go ! |
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| Now that you are listening to a happy song, we'll give you the sad news about our white turkey :( Sometime Friday, he either did an accidental head dive into the soft hay in the barn........or fell off the hay bales into the soft hay...... either way his 50 pound body broke his neck (or smothered him - we aren't quite sure). Rog found him upside down, buried deep in the soft hay. Dead as a doorknob. |
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| His head is back under his body, and all of that pink skin is just where his featherw were worn off by sitting on the ground. He wasn't stiff and cold, so it must not have happened too long before we found him. |
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| Tagg comparing his hand to the turkey's hand |
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| Saturday morning we took him down by the creek and buried him. |
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| The kids were wishing it would have been the ugly black turkey, because he is the mean one that goes after them ! Then we headed over to the property where we tried out the new "toy". |
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| The RAKER !! |
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| Rog and Zac tried a new idea this year, and as you can see the "raker" puts the leaves and twigs into rows. Then they went back over the rows with the lawn mower, and it mulched them up, and into the catch bag. It worked probably 75% of the way they wanted it too. It doesn't save alot on time, but it does save on effort. We got alot done, but there is still more to do. Spring clean up is the pits. Zac is going to modify the raker, and hopefully it will work even better next time. |
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| Of course we had a weenie roast again :) |
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| Relaxing ! |
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| We cleaned out the fire pit which was chuck full, and by the time we were done cleaning up and burning the twigs and leaves around the South end of the Property, we will need to clean it out again before we can have another weenie roast. |
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| Cementing in the poles |
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| Tagg is always right there helping his Dad ! |
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| Jordyn and Kacey took the kids to the Library. I guess they were quite the hit !! Brightyn is at the far left being held. She's in a turquoise shirt. Kellen (Jordyn's baby) is next to her. Payson is in front, but not looking at the camera. |
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| Jordyn took these beautiful photos of Brightyn to mark her 2 month status :) Isn't she a doll? |
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| And Manda is on a weekend get a way with friends, relaxing in Prescott AZ !! Love you Manda !! |
