Halloween Costume

So ever since I have started working at the hospital, the ladies in my office have been way into politics. And well, I can honestly say that this has been the first time that I have followed what has been going on in the political world. Every morning at breakfast, we watch the news and have a new disscussion about who we thought was going to be the vp. Then we moved to listening to sean hannity in the afternoons, and talking about what he talked about on his show. Next we added rush limbaugh to the morning, so my day was pretty much filled with nothing but political talk shows. Well you can probably tell where this is going...we thought it would be hilarious to dress up as the current political canidates. Well we found the masks at walmarts, Jen is John McCain, Les is Hillary Clinton, and that leaves me as Barack Obama. It was a big hit at the office, and very fun.

Rooney watching t.v.

Well, rooney has figured out that he is big enough to jump on the couch and the bed. It might take him a few tries, but he can definately get up on them. Anyway, I was doing dishes and watching t.v. the other day when I heard rooney get up on the couch. I walked over to change the channel, and this is what I saw. Rooney was watching t.v. and being a typical male...hogging the remote.

Rooney being nosey...

So spiker-rooney follows us everywhere, and he thinks that he is a big dog. But don't tell him that he isn't cause I don't have the heart to tell him. Anyways the other morning when we were doing chores, I lost him somewhere along the way. So I back tracked a ways and found him right here, doing his favorite thing...being nosey. This trough is where we feed the bulls their grain, and he decided that he needed to try it out. Apparently he loved it cause I couldn't get him away from it until all traces of grain were gone. Now when we do chores, he is the first one to the grain trough, go figure. Nosey weiner dog.

Watering Cows in the Pasture...

So we have a herd of cows in the pasture. My mom has turned them into pets, so when you go down to feed or water, they all but climb into your pocket. This picture is of the bull that is with the cows, and yeah Guy is petting him. I keep thinking that one of these times, the bull is going to hook someone. But maybe not, maybe you can have a bull as a pet. My dad named the bull Romeo, so here is Guy and Romeo.

Quick road trip with the weiner dogs

Well we set off the St. George for Jetta's temple session. Guys family hasn't seen our two little one's for a while, so they went with us. I thought if we put their blankets across the back seat, they would be content. But that didn't last long...good thing I brought a bag full of dog chewies. Well after a while the chewies just weren't doing the trick, so they climbed around on us and wrestled and watched cars go by out the window. Then they got thirsty so they drank water out of the cup holder while I poured it in. You know what drinking water does...yeah they had to potty. So we stopped along the road and they found a snake. So of course, Guy had to kill it for them. Watch the video and you'll see what they love to do to snakes.

Heading to the pasture.

Well don't these three dogs look happy. They are headed down to the pasture to go hunting for critters. Lately there has been a squirrel that has been teasing them. I'll have to try and catch a picture of that. It sits in the tree and watches for them to come down, and then starts chirping so that the dogs will chase it.

I'm actually suprised that these dogs held still enough to get their picture taken. Bruiser and Rhody are usually so busy wrestling that nothing else gets accomplished. Or else Bruiser is beating up on Chubby(the furry one on the end). By the way, Bruiser and Rhody are the best of friends, except when Bruiser eats all of her crunchies, and when Rhody thinks that Bruisers frisbee is hers. Well anyway, we are off the take water to the cows.

Haircutting time

Well guy has been trusting me to cut his hair the past few hair cuts. So once I got the hang of it, I just decided to get a little creative with it. And I might have gotten a little carried away but that's okay. It was fun and once I was done, I made him let me take pic's of it. I don't know if I'll get to cut his hair again. He is kind of particular about it. But hair does grow back so I'm not too worried about it. After I had taken the pictures and laughed about it, I cut it the rest of the way off so that he could have his usual hair cut. Also I was thinking that we could cut it like this for Halloween then he wouldn't have to wear his mullet wig like last year. It would be real, and we could just about say that we are real trailer trash. Yeah...

Recap of Summer...

We started the summer out with snow. I know it was kind of late for snow, but we managed to find it way up in the mountains. And it was the first snow of the four wheel drive season for the white ford. We were doing good until the snow doubled in depth without warning. And from the looks of the photo, we were very stuck. Some four wheeler riders just happened to be up ahead of us and saw the whole thing. They came to help us out but about 2 hours later we were still stuck. Actually I think that we were more stuck. Oh yeah, we didn't have any cell service either. So the wheeler riders offered to give us a ride and that was interesting...they were very drunk. But we made it out okay and mom and dad met us at the bottom of the canyon. They knew when we didn't show up for a while that Guy had gotten a wild hair and headed for the snow drift up the canyon. They were right...it was fun.
Our next adventure was out to Delta. It was only a one day trip with no snow or mud in site. We packed up our dogs and headed to the hills to dig fossils. And fossils we found, among other things. This picture was up on a hill we found called Painter Springs. Great views everywhere!

As the day wore on, Rhody became more and more agitated that we made her leave the farm. It was pretty sad because what dog wants to be let loose in the mountains to run around an chase whatever it wants to. Yeah...not Rhody. She wanted to be back at her farm protecting everything. Rhody had a really great summer. She killed several racoons, many snakes, and more rabbits, squirrels, and mice than we could possibly count. But she absolutely loves her kittens and her chickens. She is the most kind hearted killing machine that anyone has ever met. I'm not sure where she came from, but there will never be another like her. We love her to death.

On the ride home, we spotted a rabbit running along the road. We hadn't seen any rabbits all day long, so the dogs were happy and wanted to chase it. So they did, after Guy shot it. Well the rabbit didn't make it too far. Rhody was not sure if she wanted to eat the rabbit or continue pouting in the bed of the truck. So Dally got first shot at it. And as you can see, she is very much smaller than the rabbit, but don't tell her that. She ripped one of its ears off and took it home for show and tell. Suprisingly, this puppy new that eating rabbits was the cool thing to do.
Well on to snake eating at the farm...a very regular site on most days. This particular one started with me walking down past the grain shed to go feed horses. I couldn't figure out why some birds were going nuts around the side of the shed. Flying back and forth, back and forth. I hadn't seen birds act like this, so I decided to check out what was getting them so worked up. As I walked around the shed, I couldn't see anything out of the ordinary. Then I finally saw what they were worried about. At the top of the shed, they had made their nest which was full of baby birds that had just hatched. And crawling up the side of the shed was a four foot long snake. It had wrapped itself around the crevices and holes, holding itself up so that it could get some yummy food. I freaked out and hollered for Guy to bring his gun and come a running. He came and killed the snake. The second that our dogs heard the shot, they knew there was something good to rip apart. Pretty much their favorite thing to do. They packed this snake around for about two days fighting over who got to chew on it. Then it finally got thrown into the garbage, but there were many more snakes to be eaten.