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End of June

Here is a quick update before you have to look at pictures of all the fireworks I'm going to blow up next weekend.

It's going to be 100 degree in Ranchester today.  Summer is here and we had to turn on the air conditioner (we didn't turn it on at all last year).  There are lots of mosquitos outside, and, unrelatedly, the ranchers around us were finally able to cut their hay after a month of rain.

We went and cut some wood again last weekend.  There is a slight conflict of interest, however, because we have to find a place where the kids can play and I can cut wood.  Which usually means I have to haul the wood a lot farther than would be good.  But at least the kids had fun.

Lincoln giving himself giardia, I'm sure.

Lincolm making a bridge.

And Lincoln making a "broken" bridge.

The hot weather is bringing out all the creepy crawlies.  This weekend Amber killed the first rattlesnake we've seen here (alive anyway).  It tried to attack her car but the car won.  Rattlesnakes in Wyoming are killed on sight, as they are in a lot of places.  I guess anything that can kill your children doesn't last too long.  It doesn't help that they are fat and mean and ugly.  This is a Northern Prairie Rattlesnake.  The kids were fascinated by the fact that it was still shaking its tail even though it was "dead."

Here's a little preview of next weekend.  The greatest holiday of the year!

I've been meaning to add a scan of this for months, but keep forgetting.  Here is the last painting I finished, I think in May.  Nothing great.  Trying to stay in practice I guess.

Oh, I drove Amber's grandma and Zia to Billings yesterday and on the way home an accident happened on the interstate in front of me.  I saw a big plume of dust over a little rise in the road and then came up on a trailer and an SUV that had rolled into the median.  People were jumping out of their cars and trying to get into the truck through the sunroof.  It was too hot to get out of the car so I just kept going.  I took a picture though, like a good rubbernecker.  Weird when you see something happen that will be an event that person will always remember, maybe even an event that was life-changing.

That's about it for this week.  Zia is staying with her grandma so it is a little quieter today, but I will have to try and find ways to entertain Lincoln when it's this hot.  I've been working on a lot of new letterboxes, but I'm starting to burn out a little on that, so I guess it's time to move on for the summer.