Weekend With Visitors

Pauline, Brent, & Julie came over Friday night with Sabra and Jim following in their own car. Saturday Linda and Pauline fixed breakfast and then we went outside to work on a bunch of tree limbs that were hanging at the edge of one of the hay fields. They had been hanging since June, but Brent and Jim wanted to do some chain sawing, so we took the saws in the Mule and I drove the tractor across the creek. Stacey drove the Mule with Linda holding Julie and Sabra and Pauline rode with the guys on the 4 wheelers. I lifted Brent in the tractor bucket and he cut the vines that were holding up the broken limbs. Jim and Brent cut a few of the small trees that the limbs had knocked down and I pushed the debris to the edge of the creek with the tractor scoop. The job took about 30 minutes and everyone put the stuff back where it was stored and went to mess around. Linda took care of Julie for a while so Pauline could ride with Brent on the 4 wheeler along with Sabra and Jim on another 4 wheeler. Linda has been working on getting Julie to eat baby food from a spoon and I took a picture of them during a messy training session.

Later Linda and I dug several mums for Jim and Sabra to take home with them. We dug some for Pauline to give to her mom too. I mentioned that a couple of people had found Indian arrowheads in the mum patch, so they were all looking to find one.

I actually found a perfect one and Sabra found a slightly broken one. That is the first arrowhead I've ever found, I think it's because I'm usually looking for weeds when I'm in the mum patch.

They road 4 wheelers around the trails and we shot our 22 caliber rifles at cans back in the 'holler'. I had chose that place thinking that it would be safe because there was nothing but hills behind the targets. Boy was I wrong. It was a scary thing that happened next. We had just finished shooting 3 rifles until they were empty, when we heard a 4 wheeler motor and from the direction we had just been shooting came a stranger riding. He said he heard the bullets whistling around back there, but waited until we stopped to come out. He was lost and had rode down the side of the hill on our property and didn't think he could ride back up the hill to get back the way he came. We talked to him a while and found out where he had came from, then I told him how to get back so he rode off. We quit shooting for a while and went inside for a late lunch of chili and sandwiches. Stacey was picked up by Jason and his family to go to a birthday party and then to eat at the Farm House Restaurant. Pauline, Sabra, Jim and Brent went outside again and rode 4 wheelers, shot their guns, played in the creek and messed around until near dark. Stacey was brought home and we talked to Stephanie and Tommy when they dropped her off. They watched a movie Brent brought with them and then played cards until way after Linda and I had went to bed.