Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Hunting time+Craft projects=Typical Fall Day!

Did I mention I LOVE this time of year? Spending time with my husband hunting in the mountains, working on projects that have been neglected all summer, and just plain relaxing indoors, the scents, the crisp morning air, ahh love it!!

Ross harvested this 4 point last Friday, it was so fun, just the two of us, well until we had to figure out how to get it in the truck, that was a joke! I have NEVER seen a deer with a body that big, I've seen elk smaller and I'm not exaggerating!! It's amazing what a little adrenaline will do.Sorry if the blood & guts makes you a little wheezy, it's one of the only 2 pictures I got of this deer which really angers me, I can't believe I didn't get a shot of the big body!! By the time we got home Friday it was 10:00, everyone was in bed and there was no one around to help hang it so we ended up quartering it in the back of the truck and hanging it in the garage, looked pretty gross after we were done...

Well he was really hoping it was going to be wider than mine I killed on my last hunt but it fell an 1" short of mine, sorry Ross:) However this deer was a lot taller, had more mass and is very symmetrical it measured in at 27 1/2" wide and Hyrum who is learning how to score horns scored it at a 170 (green score) so I guess not bad? I can't believe it's still in the velvet, all the others that were with it were shined off, maybe because it was so fat & big? Well hopefully I can top this one on the rifle hunt, it will be hard but that's my goal:)

Tuesday, September 22, 2009

In Moquie Territory...

Well the wedding is over, 2 weekends later. It was beautiful and so was my sis! Last weekend we headed over the mountain to Escalante where Lori & Derek celebrated with an open house.
1 hour before the open house, which was outside it was pouring, but we all held our breath and just about 10 min before it started the clouds opened up and this is a snap shot I got of a double rainbow back behind the old barn. If you know me, then you know how I feel about rainbows:)
The weather that evening was absolutely beautiful, a perfect fall evening...
Sadly this is the only photo I have of any of the event. I was to busy helping or standing in line to be snapping pictures. After the Open House all of us gathered together with there friends from Escalante and had a true celebration, did I mention we love the Woolsey's they are a great family, they are a lot like our family and we all mesh really well together.
Just the girls, in this photo, me, Amanda, Tara, Candis, Erica, Dace, & Lori. Dace couldn't let us have all the fun so of course he had to jump in at the last minute, DORK!