SUMMERS HERE!!!!

Summers have been my favorite part of living on the mountain. Sarah hates (hates is an understatement...loathes would be better) the winter and snow! I love it. The brisk, quite, pureness of a freshly fallen snow to me is wonderful. The cold and snow only reminds me that there is something better in a few months. Summer! Its now here! Sleeping with all the windows in the house open. The fresh clean cool smell of the morning air. Kids playing in the creek. The entire neighborhood swinging in the big tree out front. Parades, BBQ's, Softball, Wagon rides. Up here it seems so much more personal and memorable then the sweltering heat of the Valley! The best part for me, as selfish as it may be, is the smell of sweaty horses hooked to a mower, plow, or wagon. The feeling of driving a dozen head of cattle across a dusty pasture on round up days. The respite of a shade tree with split reins in hand. Word are hard to find when summer hits the white mountains!!!!!! Wylee and Bird wanted to ride the girls last Saturday. They took Mattie and Star bareback around the pasture, around a block or two, and then we took them out for a wagon ride.

Wylee and Bird on Star and Mattie!