Even More Deer

I just finished posting the last pics and looked out the window and guess what I got pics of-LOL.

This is my backyard outside my dining room window.

More Deer

The deer are still coming back. There are 2 bucks and 7 does/fawns. Last Friday evening at about 7 p.m. all 9 were in my back yard munching on apples and sleeping under the trees. I really need to get a camera that can take pictures in the evening or dark without just giving me circles for the eyes. Last weekend my neighbor got a great photo of one of the bucks as he was going back uphill from his yard to the mountain. Isn't he beautiful!!!

Just a few minutes ago I was pulling into my driveway and saw the 2 bucks and one doe. I was able to get a few pics snapped off as it is still fairly light but my camera still has issues.

Here are the two bucks.




And here is the doe.




Can't wait to see them again.

Deer in the day time

Got home from work and heard a sound. Turned around and there were 6 head of deer across the street looking at me. A 2 point buck and the rest were does. This same herd usually heads to my back yard to munch on whatever they want at about 7-8 p.m. Here is a clip of them across the street at 5:20 p.m. I have a few other clips but it takes a while to post this to youtube. This at least shows 2 of the deer. They come off the mountain behind my neighbors house, munch on a few apples and then head to my house to eat some flowers I think are weeds-lol, go to the park, across the highway and up into the mountain on the other side of my valley. Scenes like this are why I love living here and not in a big city. When the snow gets real deep the mountain lion come down and sleep in the park below my house.

Here is a link to the video. Still learning this camera.

Grandson's Country Pride

On September 11, 2008 my Grandson's class did a patriotic presentation in memory of 9/11. This little class of third graders from McGill Elementary sang the words of the Star Spangled Banner in sign language.

http://www.elynews.com/articles/2008/09/17/photos/photos03.txt

The little boy in the front row in the black t-shirt and black shoes is my miracle boy. He is my grandson that was born with cancer (neuro blastomic tumor on his kidney and spine) and has beat it for 8 years now. My brave Brody!!! You should see these little hands fly in such a serious way. This school is a great place for any child to attend.

Back When

Friday at work we were talking about the things we did when we were kids such as eating candy cigarettes. I received this email and felt the need to post it as I remember most of these from when our family moving to Nevada from Utah when I was 10.

THOSE WERE THE DAYS!
DO YOU REMEMBER WHEN...?

All the girls had ugly gym uniforms?

It took five minutes for the TV warm up?

Nearly everyones Mom was at home when the kids got home from school?

Nobody owned a purebred dog?

When a quarter was a decent allowance?

You'd reach into a muddy gutter for a penny?

Your Mom wore nylons that came in two pieces?

All your male teachers wore neckties and female teachers had their hair done every day and wore high heels?

You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time?

And you didn't pay for air?

And, you got trading stamps to boot?

Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box?

It was considered a great privilege to be taken out to dinner at a real restaurant with your parents?

They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. . . and they did?

When a 57 Chevy was everyones dream car...to cruise, peel out, lay rubber or watch submarine races, and people went steady?

No one ever asked where the car keys were because they were always in the car, in the ignition, and the doors were never locked?

Lying on your back in the grass with your friends and saying things like, 'That cloud looks like a... '?

Playing baseball with no adults to help kids with the rules of the game?

Stuff from the store came without safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had yet tried to poison a perfect stranger?

And with all our progress, don't you just wish, just once, you could slip back in time and savor the slower pace?

Share it with the children of today.
When being sent to the Principal's office was nothing compared to the fate that awaited the student at home?

Basically we were in fear for our lives, but it wasn't because of drive-by shootings, drugs, gangs, etc. Our parents and grandparents were a much bigger threat! But we survived because their love was greater than the threat.

Can you still remember Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, Laurel and Hardy, Howdy Dowdy and the Peanut Gallery, the Lone Ranger, The Shadow Knows, Nellie Bell , Roy and D ale, Trigger and Buttermilk.... as well as summers filled with bike rides, baseball games, Hula Hoops, bowling and visits to the pool, and eating Kool-Aid powder with sugar.

Didn't that feel good, just to go back and say, 'Yeah, I remember that'?

I am sharing this with you today because it ended with a double dog dare to pass it on.

To remember what a double dog dare is, read on.

And remember that t he perfect age is somewhere between old enough to know better and too young to care.

How many of these do you remember?
Candy cigarettes

Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water inside.

Soda pop machines that dispensed glass bottles.

Coffee shops with table side jukeboxes.

Blackjack, Clove and Teaberry chewing gum.

Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers.

Newsreels before the movie.

P. F. Fliers.

Telephone numbers with a word prefix...(Raymond 4-601).

Party lines.

Peashooters.

Howdy Dowdy.

Hi-Fi's & 45 RPM records.

78 RPM records!

Green Stamps.

Mimeograph paper.

The Fort Apache Play Set.

Do you remember a time when...Decisions were made by going 'eeny-meeny- miney-moe' ?

Mistakes were corrected by simply exclaiming, 'Do Over!'?'

Race issue' meant arguing about who ran the fastest?

Catching the fireflies could happily occupy an entire evening?

It wasn't odd to have two or three 'Best Friends'?

The worst thing you could catch from the opposite sex was 'cooties'?

Having a weapon in school meant being caught with a slingshot?

Saturday morning cartoons weren't 30-minute commercials for action figures?

'Oly-oly-oxen- free' made perfect sense?

Spinning around, getting dizzy, and falling down was cause for giggles?

The worst embarrassment was being picked last for a team?

War was a card game?

Baseball cards in the spokes transformed any bike into a motorcycle?

Taking drugs meant orange - flavored chewable aspirin?

Water balloons were the ultimate weapon?

If you can remember most or all of these, then you have lived!!!!!!!

Pass this on to anyone who may need a break from their 'grown-up' life.

I double-dog-dare- ya!

Arts in the Park

I just love going to Arts in the Park in Ely Nevada. Indian tacos with a snow cone and cotton candy - YUM! I used to have a booth there every year but don't have the time now. It is fantastic to see all the booths and all the hard work people put into their arts. Some had knit and crocheted items, some had wood crafted items, and so much more. There were a few booths that I thought were new. One was a lady that made hand crafted baskets. They were so beautiful. A gentle man mad art using tooled copper. I wanted the big piece to go on a wall (3 pieces) but don't have the $4,500 to pay for it. That is still a wish of mine along with several baskets to go under it. Another booth had knives with had carved handles. So much talent and beauty. I was hoping that the lady with the incense would be there but no luck this year. The booth with the scented soaps was there and I got a bar of lavender soap. The booth with the twirling metal sun catchers was there and I finally was able to get one. You could smell the potpourri booth across the park so I followed the scent and found the scent I was following which I now have home. Can't wait until next year now. Guess I will just have to settle with the upcoming Christmas Bazaar in December.

White Pine track star might be Olympics bound

A trip to in Beijing, China, to compete in the Summer Olympic Games in August is probably on Zack Lloyd's radar screen. If it isn't, it should be.

He will compete for a spot on the U.S. Olympic Team at the Olympic Trials this weekend.When Lloyd was on White Pine High School's track team in 2004, he was ranked first in the nation in the shot put and discus his senior year. Now he is viewed as a U.S. Olympic hopeful.

http://www.elynews.com/articles/2008/06/25/sports/sports01.txt

Lloyd just competed in the 2008 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships in Des Moines, Iowa. He finished fourth in the nation at the collegiate level where he threw 19.40 meters or 63-07.75 feet. However, he has thrown for longer distances. Lloyd went to the NCAA championships ranked as a favorite after throwing an even 69 feet to win the Pac-10 championships at Arizona State University recently. His throw of 21.03 meters was then ranked the best among college athletes in the shot put this year.

Good Luck and Congrats Zack!!!!

Pony Express Re-Riders

Saturday was the Annual Pony Express Re-Riders event. Once a year they re-enact the pony express route that runs through here all the way to St. Joseph, MO. They receive mail and run the route day and night at a gallop with a time span they need to complete this in. This year they have something the previous riders did not, a GPS system to see where the riders were every step of the way.

http://ponyexpressnationaltracking.com/

White Pine Pride

I have created this blog to talk about the pride I have in my home county of White Pine County Nevada and the things that are accomplished here. I love this area, the beauty, the people and the spirit. No matter where you go there will be people that are having a bad day or are tired of the people that are around but you have to make the best of things. One way is to show support for the good in your community. I plan on doing this. There are TONS of good people here and others that are just frustrated with the problems in their lives. I want to look at the good and try to see if there are things that can be done to change the bad or depressing.