Afternoon Fun

Playing ball with Dad.

Heading for the shade.

Life Is Good with a New Toy

No Respect for the Garden

This blog is back.....

....... at least for now.  I've never been very consistent at maintaining my blog. A few pictures should explain why I've been so distracted lately.

Our newest family member.

His name is Leo.

Always ready for fun and adventure.

I've Been A Bad Blogger!

I always have such good intentions of making regular, not daily, just regular updates to this blog.  Lots has happened over the past several weeks, so maybe I can bring you up to date bit by bit.

Meet Emily.

Emily is my foster dog and she will be staying with us for a while.  What a joy she is to have in our family; she can stay as long as she likes!

Dish Rag Tag

Competitive knitters, are you ready?

The sign-ups have closed, teams have been assigned, and it's time to assemble the necessary supplies: cotton yarn, needles ready to go, a nifty little goody to pass on to the next knitter.  And while we wait for the start of the race, there's time to work out strategies to get that box around the country as fast as possible.

Let the scheming begin.

Wool Festival and Other Delights

The reason that we scheduled our vacation at this particular time of the year was so that we could be in the right place at the right time.   I've been wanting to attend this festival for years, expecting that the destination would be as awesome as the festival itself.  And we were not disappointed.

There was a large barn of local and regional vendors with wonderful fiber, yarn, and merchandise.  Yes, I made a few purchases but I'll share that in a later post.

This handsome guy was just begging to have his picture taken.  Rather majestic looking, isn't he?  What else would you expect from a cashmere buck?

This festival had a diverse population of animals;  llamas, alpacas, paco-vicunas, goats, rabbits,  and of course, sheep. 

It was not a large festival and we were able to see just about all the exhibits in a couple hours but we decided to just hang out for the day, have lunch there, and enjoy the beautiful setting.

Besides where else could you go to be entertained by llamas on an agility course?

On our last day in the mountains we decided to do some hiking in a different area of the park.  It was like winning the lottery!

In addition to the never ending, gorgeous scenery, we were once again in the right place at the right time.  These fellas decided to come down from the mountains and crossed the trail where we were hiking.

The mountains were beautiful as well, but you can see what made the biggest impression on me that day.

As I looked back through my previous blog posts, I noticed that I neglected to include pictures of another wonderful sighting from a previous hike.  So I'll end this post with some pictures of Moose at Sprague Lake.