Ready.... Set.... Go!

Well, we survived the winter in great shape and are headed into summer season with a full plate!  We spent the snow months plowing snow at the ranch & for the town of Big Sky (Jeff) and making coffee and meals at several jobs (Sara).  As most of you know by now, as spring neared, God handed us an opportunity and made it clear that we would be not only ill-advised but ungrateful to NOT take it!  So, we purchased a hood cleaning business... about the furthest thing from what we ever planned to do, as you could imagine.  So, for 12-16 weeks a year (spring & fall months) we'll be cleaning commercial kitchen exhaust hoods & kitchens.  It's a great opportunity as those are times of year that the local economy pretty much shuts down and little work can be found.  It has great income potential and has been going great guns.  I'll post some pictures and more details on what we do at a later date.

BUT... now summer is here!  We've just returned from a LONG (18 day) road trip to pick up Bendigo from his AIT graduation at Ft. Eustice VA, and visiting friends & family, as well as sight-seeing, along the way.  And... this week we'll finish up our last few hood jobs and next week will head into our first passion - horses!

A week ago last Tuesday, we spent the day checking out some new areas with our outfitter boss & checking in with our Cedar Camp location.

  

 Eating lunch

Headed Out

The other highlights of the week include:

Our a.m. visitors the other morning:

On Friday, we had our 4 leased horses delivered.  Meet Tupper (as in Tupperware for his dished face), Mel (for his ML brand), Enoch (for his EN brand) and Blace (for his blaze face).

And then, yesterday, Jasmine & Chex came to join them.  And, the BIG news... Friday Jasmine will get a little mule bun in her oven to cook until next spring!  Very excited!  Plan on some sort of "J" name for what I plan on being my last equine.  Since I already have "Josie" and "Jasmine", it seems like "Jezebel" or "Jasper" or "Jedediah" or "Jubal" are good choices.  But we have lots of time.  :)

So, that's the update so far.  We start into the horse work full time next week so will hopefully have lots of news throughout the summer.  Hope you're all full swing into the lovely summer months!

P.S.... One other fun thing.. Jeff made this great "Montana Canopy Bed" frame this winter & we just took pictures to post it online for sale.  Thought it would be cool to take some "location" pictures with it.  So, packed it outside & put bedding on it & got Tupper (and kind of Jasmine) to pose with it.  What do you think?