My Third Annual Gopher Hunt!

It's that time of year again! A day I look forward to every year! This year was a little different though because Lee Lee wasn't able to join me and Dixie. She was in Utah preparing for Michelle's wedding. Nevertheless it was still a great day! The weather was warm, windless and the skies blue with not a cloud in the sky!

This is the sign that let's us know when the Gopher hunt is each year.

Dixie and the best land around for shooting gophers!

Shooting the gopher.

Running after the gopher before it slithers back down in it's hole to die. They do that a lot!

Cutting the tail. You can't see the blood and guts here and that's a good thing because it can be very gruesome with my new Yellow Jacket bullets!

Just looking around for more gophers to shoot. It can be a little discouraging at times because I just want to win the contest so bad!

Ah, I see one! Thump! It's the best sound ever when you're gopher hunting!

This is very official. The guy in charge is counting our tails. Forty-Six. We shot and killed more but like I said, they go back down their holes to die! I don't know how we placed in the contest because we didn't see all the teams numbers but I can tell you that the winner got 123. I am pretty sure if Lee Lee had been there with us, we would have done much better. But.....there's always next year and I can't wait!

Shout out to Dixie for once again supplying the gophers!

Bizarre Bazaar

So last Saturday was the Babb Bazaar in Babb, Montana. Lee Lee had heard that it's like the Christmas Bazaar they have every year but didn't know what that meant. Lee Lee said, "it's either going to be really good or really bad". Well, it was really bad but totally worth a shout out on my blog because really? It was hard to believe!

It was held in the gym at the local school. This is what we saw when we walked thru the front doors. We thought that perhaps it hadn't started yet or that maybe all the good stuff was sold!

We walked in to the gym, turned to the right and this is what we saw.

Then we turned to the left and this is what we saw. Click on the picture and take a look at the ladies expression. Oh, my!


No kidding. That was the whole Bazaar! One table had little ceramic frogs that the kids painted. They held little plants. Pass. The next table had accessories for the "bling" diva. Pass. The next table had baked goods. They looked very yummy but when I asked the little native girl what kind of pie it was she said, "I don't know". Pass. The fourth table was also baked goods but they had little tags on them with what the item was and the price so we each got a brownie and Dixie bought a small banana loaf.

Down the road we stopped in at Thronson's to see what we could find. It's a very old little convenience store that has just about everything! In the back of the store we saw this. I just may have to send this picture to the Ellen DeGenerous show! Serve Yourself.....Don't Open lol!

After all the shopping at the bazaar we were pretty hungry so we drove on down a couple of miles to the Duck Lake road and ate here. The Leaning Tree Cafe'

This is the entrance. The shovel is especially inviting wouldn't you say?

This is what's on the other side of that door. Whew!

This is the front side of he menu. The best part was that it said they served breakfast all day long so the 3 of us ordered breakfast!

The food was pretty good and Lee lee's omelet was huge! This picture doesn't do it justice. Believe me it was really big!

This was the only other customer in the cafe'. I just bet that he has come to this place all his life!

Dixie and Lee Lee.

This was taken on our way back from our breakfast lunch heading back towards Babb. Yes, Babb is in the middle of nowhere!