Fourth of July Fun!

I have finally had a free morning to go through the 4th of July pictures I took at Papa & Grandma's house, whew! It's been busy around here. Jaina, Andy, Noah, and Caitlin joined us for the celebrations, it was so fun to have everyone at the farm!


Trimmings from the pine trees by the driveway. Once we piled the branches in the pasture, the cows stampeded and smashed our once towering pile of tree clippings to a lowly little heap.


One of the stampeding culprits. MOO!


The back pond, you can see the big tire bird nest for geese.


Driving down the spillway.


Ryan and his chainsaw clearing the trail through Papa's forest.


Andy and Ryan with the wood we had just loaded.


Our wood, cows, and Schweitzer in the background.


The baby cows were running along with the four wheelers!


Andy and Ryan shooting in the pasture.


Papa, Jaina, & Noah watching target practice. Noah had his ear plugs in and enjoyed the show!


Ryan shooting his musket rifle. It's the loudest gun!!


I like to shoot it too!


Musket balls!


Andy and the glow sticks.

Corey and Caitlin watching fire works with Aunt Annie's pretty blanket.




The finale.


The back of the truck on the drive home...it was fully loaded with logs that will be our bed frame sometime soon!


Bye bye Selle Road! See you again soon!


Pend Oreille Lake from the Long Bridge on the way home.



Of course I can't go without posting silly pictures of the kitties! Here is Alvin after we got home from Papa & Grandma's house. He did not move for 5 minutes straight.

Cupid lounging on the awesome floor in the dining room.


Pretty orange flower that I later found out is a "weed," but it's so cute!

Until next time...

Home Sweet Home with Furballs

Tomer Butte & Paradise Ridge Rainbow
July 5th

Paradise Ridge & Moscow

I love the view from our new home!

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When we told the kitties they would be moving up the hill, this is the reaction I got from Alvin:


What was that? What did you say?


Does this mean I'll have to give up my mattress throne from where I can observe all my servants at once?


NEVER! You'll have to drag me out of here!
....wait....it's not that difficult to drag me...


Cupid was so baffled by the news he lost interest in his toy. He's never lived anywhere besides the shelter and Cherry street so the move was a WHOLE new experience for him.



Here he is checking out the new place from a safe spot--the bed. For the first several days I would consistently find him on the bed because it was something he recognized from home.


Bina and Mimi were sniffing hard trying to figure out what was going on. The ratties got downgraded to the smaller cage because there are only two of them now and this cage has better ventilation which I'm hoping will help Bina's wheezing problem. So far they seem pretty satisfied with their new home.


After a week or two everyone started to settle in to our new home. The cats have their own new schedule--which includes waking up at 4am with the birds outside the new sky-level windows and thundering up and down the hallway to wake up Andy & Jaina below us.
:)

Alvin is quite fond of the balcony....but we have to keep an eye on this crazy kitty when he is outside. At any moment he can snap and off he'd be to chase a butterfly or something. I'm not sure that he would actually jump from the balcony but I wouldn't put it past him if we aren't observing him!

I think they've adjusted for the most part. They love to sit on the balcony with me in the morning and play balance beam to scare me half to death. I had to post this picture because if you look very closely, you can see Alvin's tongue sticking out!

We have a lot more work to do on the place but we are already loving our new home.

Until next time....
xoxo