Almost Gypsy Soul

It all started last year when the government shutdown for nearly 2 weeks. I would sit around watching the news all day and just get even more depressed about not being able to go to work. So I loaded up and went to Logan to hang out with Little Sister. We hiked for fall colors, we were slightly late and ended up in the snow so we decided that we would go a couple of weeks earlier this year. So this is how we welcomed fall and said good-bye to summer. It looked like fall and felt like summer. We hiked Jardine Juniper, a 5+ mile hike to a very large juniper tree that is over 1500 years old. A girl and her dog, on the way up These colors make all that is wrong, right. We made it! Both old ladies made it to the end of the trail Mom! Its hot out here. Are you sure it's fall? Just a few miles left Getting rejuvenated for the finale miles And I saw a moose on my way home!  Although I'm a little sad to see summer go, I just didn't get enough...

I spent my 4th of July helping out my co-worker by supervising a high school boys basketball team's concession stand at the youth rodeo that is held every July 4th in Farson, WY. On my way back to town, the radio advertised a photo contest and I thought, well maybe I should enter....I don't know what I might won't win, but I should still enter. So as soon as I got home, I looked through my Wyoming photos (I should really take a few more!) and uploaded the following photos to the contest. Hey, ya can't win if you don't enter, but if you'd like to help tip the scales my way visit the website and vote for one of my photos! The rules for the contest were pretty easy All photos must be taken in Wyoming  All photos must be “family friendly” in order to be entered into the contest  Photos can include any type of photo from landscapes, action photos, underwater, glamour , wedding, architecture etc.  Must upload all photos on website  Any person can submit photo...

Sweetwater County's high mountain desert is a landscape that allows sheep to thrive in a year-round range operation. Many larger sheep operations call Sweetwater County and southwestern Wyoming home....all year long, rain, snow and shine. Here I told yo u a little bit about a typical day on the trail at sheep camp. The big spring event before lambing starts is shearing, besides for lambs, the wool that the sheep provide is a large source of income for the ranchers. Many have contracts with the US Military to make clothing products for the troops. There are shearing crews that come and move from ranch to ranch shearing the large bands for them. They are similar to custom harvesting crews. The first range sheep shearing that I went to was out on the desert near Black Butte Coal. It is completely mobile, panels are set up into multiple corrals that hold the sheep until they can be sorted and pushed into increasingly smaller corrals and eventually into an alley way that leads...

[Linking up with Julia @ black tag diaries ] When I saw Football Fan's link up for Thankful Thursdays last week, I knew I would had to copy her again. I wonder if she is getting tired of me copying her link-ups? She probably wishes she would have never taught me about blogging link-ups. oh well, too late now, I'm a linking fool! So here we go......... This Thursday (and every other day) I'm THANKFUL for......... and RANCHERS too!