While My Life Has Been on Hold...

My little brother and stepdad have been making the best of their time...

In a "while the cats are away the mice will play" fashion...

Here's Kidd on the pack trip they took while we were down at the sentencing this month...

My guess is that one of the the other kid's sisters told them to look tired...
the result... they look dead... boys.

And here is a picture of Dallas and Mr. C, a long time family friend and high school teacher of mine, loading up one of the pack horses to head up the trail...

Actually, this shot has two of my high school teachers in it... ;)

And finally, if you squint you can see Kidd in the back on Colt (because you name your horse Colt and your child Kidd... yeah, that's exactly what he said...), Big Head Fred - a/k/a Buddy packing in the middle, and Dallas getting on a leaning Star.


Meanwhile... I've gotten ONE ride in on my new saddle...
and my new boots are gathering dust in the back of the truck...

I've told them both that one of these days I'd like to go on the pack ride with them... but I really don't enjoy being camp wench and since they're both a bit old fashioned once they get on the trail... maybe one day...

It'll be three years before I have enough accrued vacation time again...
so for now it's a moot point...

With County Fair coming up and the trial in August I'll be lucky to get another ride in before Labor Day.