In My Garden!

A beautiful lily from my garden that the deer couldn't reach. For some reasons all the lilies grow near the wire fence and the deer just reach over and pluck the bud before it blooms but they couldn't reach this one!

The Cabin

Carole, Jeanne, and Marilyn ready to eat Angel Lush.

My home teacher Ron requested a picture of the cabin and this is the best one that was taken this year. Unfortunately, I don't have a picture of the view we look at. It is called Amphitheater and is a huge snow-covered mountain. Oh well, another time. As you can see there was lots of green this year. The cabin is two story with three beds in the loft area and two bedrooms downstairs and a side porch besides a nice size great room with kitchen and full bath. It was warm this year, we didn't have to put the stove on once but had a few morning fires in the fireplace. Here I am with Carole from Montana (little sister) and Marilyn from Colorado (big sister). Dad finished the cabin in 1961 in time for a family reunion. My folks were seldom at the cabin alone and kept us all eating delicious rainbow trout all summer long. My dad taught everyone to fish and several of the grandchildren are really expert fisherman. John had a fishing pole put in his hand when he was two and was "hooked" you might say from then on.

Four Sisters on the Fourth of July

Jeanne from Utah Carole from Montana Marilyn from Colorado Janet from California

The Fourth of July fireworks in Silvergate, Montana were really something. Before it was completely dark there were many shooting off all kinds of booms and rockets right in front of us on the road. As it became completely dark the fireman took over and put on a first class show. Because the display is right in front of this high curved mountain the sounds are really loud. Some show!! Somehow we missed getting pictures of the cabin but you can see we were all dressed for the occasion.

The mountains are so high, the Utah mountains looked very small when I drove back. Montana really has majestic scenery and it was especially green this year and big bison were hanging around our homes which was a little unsettling but we didn't see any bear this year.

My Brother and his Wife

David and Dorothy --married 60 years and still beautiful!

On Sunday, July 1, Jeanne and Marilyn and I, stopped by to see my brother David, who just had his 80th birthday. He lives in Idaho Falls. We met Carole, who lives in Billings, Mt later at Silvergate. Dave was the big tease in the family and the one who always had a trick to play or a funny story to tell. Carole remembers his radio which would turn on or off by having a string tied from his toe to the radio as he laid in his bed. We had a wonderful life growing up in Glendive, Montana.