Sue's Views

Look at this cutie patutti smiling for me.

Sue's Views

We've done the unthinkable. Call us crazy with a capital "C", but meet our new kids! Introducing Fox Red Lab #1 and #2. On the left is the three week old runt of the litter and on the right is the male we picked out. We were just going to get one, but the second we went back for the photo shoot session, I fell in love with the sweet little runt. The guy that Ron works with owns the father and the mother. This is their 2nd litter of 9. The Fox Red's are pretty rare. The father is a deep chestnut red, a little darker than most Irish Setters. The mother is like Ned was except she also has red highlights. We won't get them for another 3 weeks or so. In the meantime, we're trying to come up with the pefect names. The birds will all be gone by the time we get the pups. We must like a challenge. I want you to know that it was Ron who really begged me to go to see them. Now how could I say no to these little pups? Oh fer cute!

Well I sent this to Mom, Dad, and Aimee, and they said I needed to blog this. This is the southeast wall of the mine I'm working at for the summer. You can't even see the bottom of the pit here, but if you stacked two sears towers one on top of the other it still wouldn't come to the crest of the pit. Part of my job is to check pumping/monitoring wells throughout the mine, and some of them are wayyyy out on the edge of the pit, and its pretty incredible to look out over it. In this picture you can see the crusher (right in the middle) that crushes the mined rock to about the size of a basketball and smaller. Its then transported via conveyor 5 miles and through a mountain to the concentrator in copperton. The conveyor is so long, when they stop crushing rock it takes 45 minutes to completely clear the conveyor. Also, you can see haul trucks and shovels in a few places. The haul trucks I believe are 340 tons (max-- filled with rock I believe...), and the shovels have scoops that fill up those trucks in about 3 scoops, so they're pretty big too... Its all pretty amazing, and if any of you happen to pass though salt lake this summer I'll have to give you a tour and take you to the visitors center! Thats about it! Gotta go! Love you all!!!

-Walter B.

Enough of the fruit posts!

Let's show some of Jim's favorite candy!!  Licorice, Chocolate Neccos and Runts!  Mmmmmm!  First person to tell me what's wrong in the photo wins a roll of Chocolate Neccos!  

Good Luck Cats!

The Winners?

Yes, these could have been the best figs there, since these would have been the only figs there if we had not slept in and missed the 9:30 entry time at the Marathon Fruit Festival. Not being on time, it's a Keys thing, and we weren't all that excited about the contest. To be perfectly honest, our figs do not have the sweetest taste. They certainly don't resemble the figs in a fig newton, except for the crunch, and that is what I like the least about a fig newton. Now our pineapple was another story. We ate it the healthiest way last night, cut up and plain. It was delicious, just as sweet or sweeter than Dole in a can in heavy syrup. It could have competed with the winners at the fruit festival for taste, but they were bigger, probably because they were grown in the ground, not in a pot like our was. I promise this is my last fruit post for at least a week.

I Made It!

Yes, it's me coming home after my first solo trip on my motorized bike to the gym. We both have motors now, and we have been riding around together for a week or so and I have been building up confidence for a trip on my own, and today was the day. The gym is about 4 miles away, and I put on my good luck riding shirt to keep the sun off my arms, sunscreen, sunglasses, helmet, CELL PHONE, and as you can see I made it back in one piece! I had a few things to get used to, like remember to check the gas, and sometimes when I pulled the cord to start it, my rear end would hit the on switch and turn it to off and I couldn't figure out why it wouldn't start, but now, I think I've mastered it. I'd say that the trip took less than a quarter of a tank of gas, which is about a half a cup, and my top speed may have been 15 or 20 mph. It took me about 20 minutes instead of 10. It was nice cruising over the causeway, and the bridge over Vaca Cut. I was reluctant to put a motor on my beloved Trek, but when I want, I can lift the motor and use pedal power. That's when "Mean Green" turns back into "Serene Green", and I can hear the birds and myself sing.

NANCY!

MOM DID YOU KNOW IT'S YOUR BIRTHDAY?!?!?!

...happy '56'

miss you and love you!
xoxoxoxoxo