Summer September

Just a few random shots of our Summer and September. The weather was hot in the summer and perfect in September! Fall is starting to become a favorite time of year for me but it will NEVER replace summer. Ever!

After gathering old aloha shirts and muu muu's from second hand stores for many years I finally finished my quilt! I was particular in what I bought. It had to be the old school fabric from wayyy back in the day and the tag in the clothing had to say that it was made in Hawaii. (I added the tags to the back side of the quilt for funnzies!)

This is kind of a sad picture. The kids have never known another couch but it had seen it's day so we gave it away for free on kijiji. Bye pink couch.

My summer music this year! Super catchy songs and super fun to sing to!

Kelly came home for a quick visit and the timing was perfect because it was the weekend of the Cardston parade. How fun is that? Sure wish we could have had Sean and Caleb with us in this picture. :(

This is what you drive by everytime you cross the "Babb Border" (I forget the officialy name) and continue on to Babb, St. Mary's, East Glacier, Kalispell etc. It's just a neat thing to see everytime you drive by.

This is a campground outside of St. Mary's. Some people pitch a tent and others pitch a tee pee! Super cool!

Lee lee got a new camera and a sweet lens so she was shooting away and got what I think is a great shot of me and Chris (especially Chris). She loves blurry backgrounds and crisp subjects.  Her favorite style of photography.

This picture is great news! This "little black truck" as we call it is finally running after almost 7 years! Yep. We have hung on to it for that long waiting for the day that it would run again. You feel so "old school" when you are in it (at least I do anyway).

And that "little black truck" now carries this Laser sailboat for Chris. Chris has wanted to sail for a very long time and so he bought this down in Montana, fixed it up and he loves it! He sails and if the weather is spectacular then I go lay on the beach.

My previous post was all about the creek and I mentioned a bear's den. Well, this is a picture of it from the inside. Super cool don't ya think?

We had another major fire just west of us that once again started on the Blood reserve. Seth took this picture with his iphone at Chinook H.S.. We were blocks away from being evacuated. Again.

When I saw this view as we were driving along I said to Lee Lee, "you've got to take a picture of that because it looks just like the cover of a Louis L'Amour book". Am I right???

Last week Lee Lee and I along with my good friend Jeri went headstone searching over the border and in to Browning and East Glacier. Lee Lee belongs to a search site called Find A Grave where people ask others to go to certain cemetaries and take pictures of thier relatives headstones for genealogy purposes. It's always an experience let me tell ya! We went to 5 that day and had really good luck.

This cemetary was one of 2 in East Glacier that we went to and what a time we had finding those headstones in all these weeds! But we did.


Good-Bye Summer and September!

My new found love this summer! The Creek!

I have simply fallen in love with going to the creek this summer! There are so many creeks around Leavitt with fun and simple things to do. Getting to some of the creeks takes an AWD or a 4WD to maneuver thru the hills while others you can get to with your standard car or a long walk once your there. Either way you get to the creek it's a fun adventure in it's self!

This is Okie Hole. Up at the end of the creek or way up high to the right on the rocks is where Michelle loves to fish!

This is up on the bank of Okie Hole. One of the fun things the Cahoon's have done at the creeks for years and years are wiener roasts along with all the fixin's. Smore's, chips and whatever else you can grab and go! Here are some of us after the Cardson Parade. The day was a little cool but that never ever hinders anyone from having any fun!

Here is Lee Lee and Rio on the way to the creek. She loves Lee Lee. We let Rio out of the truck as soon as we are well on the way and she runs and runs and runs along side the truck.

This creek is upstream from Cahoon Crossing on someones land but as long as we shut the gate behind us so his cattle don't get out it's all good!

Floating in one of the deeper spots up from Cahoon Crossing.

When Kelly came up for a little visit we went to Value Village on the Grand Reopening day and we (she) found these beauties! Keen water shoes for me and those crazy toe shoes for her. Boy, did we ever get a deal on those!

One of the things I love about going to the creek is walking in the creek. In my new Keen's! Love. Love. Love it!

This is another creek called The Falls. To get to this sweet spot you have to drive to Cahoon Crossing and then walk downstream and thru someone's private property (we got permission).

This shot of the creek is what you see right behind me in the previous picture.

Here is the same spot but taken at a different angle.

Yep! That's me in a bears den! It's downstream from The Falls and up on the other side of an embankment. My legs are totally outstretched behind me and I couldn't even reach the back end of the hole!

When that bear returns for his winter hibernation he is going to know that someone was there! Surprise! Now who has the last laugh!