The rest of the Summer.

 

August and September flew past.  What beautiful weather we enjoyed.  We moved

around a bit and loved the country that we were able to travel in, and appreciated the

land that we live in.  How lucky we are to have this land to live in, God has been good

to us.

 

Tami treated me with tickets to Les Miserable's, it was fun to see the play once again

and to enjoy the great music.   Thanks Tami

 

We had our annual garden party for the seniors.  They surprised us with balloons and

cake for our 50th anniversary.   This has been a year of celebrations for us.

    

Do you remember Lost Lake?  Dad invited a couple of our friends to drive up to the

lake with us.  The day was clear, a good day for Photos.   The day was a good reminder  

     

of how much we love the mountains.  We stopped at Multnomah falls on the way

home and walked up to the bridge.  Steve , our friend wanted to show us his grandfather’s

name engraved on the bridge, his grandfather had helped to build the bridge long ago.

   Near the end of the month Dad and I helped with one of the exchanges for the Hood to Coast

race.  We were stationed just north of Sandy, at an elementary school.   I had a quiet place helping people

find parking places.  Dad was out in the inter section directing traffic .  I think he was enjoying the

job.  I thought he would never let go of the job.  Fortunately we were able to see Tami come to our exchange

and visit with us for a minute or two before her team moved onto their next exchange.

   A couple of days later we left for Canada and Big Fork Montana.  

You can’t see us in the picture but we did enjoy sitting here and visiting Ron, Afton, Brent  and Jo Ellen at their

Condo’s on the Lake.  We went on one short hike but spent most of the time visiting and playing some games.

Unfortunately Afton woke up one night with bad pain in  her arms and a heavy feeling in her Chest.  Ron drove

her to the hospital I went along to keep them company.  At the hospital the Doctors recommended an

Angiogram.  The result was putting three stints into her veins going into her heart..  Fortunately Afton was

taken good care of and we were thankful that they had  a good hospital and  knowledgeable Doctors in Kalispell.

    Wednesday left to drove over Logan Pass on our way to Canada.  The drive was as spectacular as always. 

   

As usual there was construction on the road.  Time to smell the roses.

   

While we were visiting with Joanne and her granddaughters, Dad and I took a day

to visit Waterton.  

    

Joanne and I took Dad down to the train in Cutbank on the third of Sept and sent him home

to harvest the garden, collect the mail, and to pay the bills.

   

The month of September kept us busy getting Joanne’s affairs taken care of and getting

her house and garden ready for the long winter.  We took time to have lunch with our cousin

Calee, to go to the temple and take a trip up to Stettler to visit with Cheri’s family.

   

    

Here is Guy standing in his field of Canola, as you can see he had a bumper crop.

   

  

  

The black horse is the stud.  If you want to see more pictures of Guy’s horses go to

www.twinarrowsranch.com        His ranch is called   Twin Arrow Ranch

 

   

If you look closely you can see the twin arrow brand on the horses flank.   The lake pictured above

is on the ranch.  The north country is beautiful in the summer.

    

As we traveled home we witnessed the great wheat bowl harvest.  Combines were humming

across the fields.  I took this picture at Joanne’s house.  You can see them unloading the wheat

from the combine as the combine continues move around the field, no time is wasted in getting the crop

off the field.  

  

  This a picture I took at sunrise just before we left Canada.  As you can imagine it was hard to

take Joanne away.  We will let you know how October goes here in Oregon.   Love all of you.

Keep happy and remember that Life is beautiful.