Bonnie's quilt

This is Bonnie's quilt I pieced for her.  It is called Paris in the Fall.

Going in new places

Bandit got out of the truck and wouldn't get back in so we let her run for a ways and it was pretty hot.  When we got to the first water troughs she jumped right in.  She wanted to stay in the truck after that.

As we was driving down the road this mother quail walked out in front of us.  She had a whole bunch of babies.  I counted 13.  They stayed right alongside us.  So cute!

I thought this was a cool rock on top of the hill

Then we ran across some mustangs.  They didn't really run from us.  They just kept an eye on us.

They started walking up the hill.  There was a stallion and about 3 mares and 2 colts.

Summer in Nevada

Elder Reay teaching Elder Nadeau how to polish his shoes  

Kelly came to see us and has had a hard day of travel to get here

Ty's pretty excited to come and see Grandpa and Grandma

Elder Broadwater is helping haul rocks to make a rock garden for our home

Elder Nadeau is hauling rocks to help as well

Elder Nadeau and Ty and Kelly hauling rocks

Elder Broadwater has a big rock to  haul

Kelly's carrying big rocks and smaller ones too

Kelly brought me pictures and lettering for our house.  It looks so nice.

The Elders got up early one morning to help haul hay at our place .  John and Tony are hauling too.

Elder Broadwater only had shorts for service projects,  it was plenty hot but his legs got all scratchy. 

Kelly was enjoying cutting Elder (Nick) Nadeau's hair.

Elder Broadwater (Frank) got his hair cut too.  He just gets a buzz. 

These rocks are up by one of the springs on the ranch.  We're told it was an old Pony Express stations

Tony at the Pony Express station 

Elder Broadwater and Kelly.

On the first week of June Art and Trent came down from the Cleveland Ranch, near Ely to help John and Elder Reay with the cattle.  They gathered cows in from the range and moved some to other pastures and they preg tested the ones from up on the range.  The cows that were'nt bred were being shipped up to the Cleveland where the bulls are.

This is Art

Elder Reay

Art. 

This is Trent in the big rig

A better shot of the truck and Trent.  These boys love their jobs!

Touring the Delamar

This old cemetery is in an area in the Delamar Valley that used to be an old town.  It had a population of about 8000 people.  They worked in the gold and silver mines  in the area.  They shut down the mines because it was killing so many men.  It was called the widowmaker mine.  Some of these headstones tell of men in their 20's.

Elder Reay and Elder Broadwater

Elder Nadeau and Elder Broadwater

Elder Reay checking out the graves

We took Elder Nadeau and Elder Broadwater on a tour on Memorial Day.  We visited an old cemetery by the old mining town on the Delamar valley

District meeting at the Reay house

Elder Nadeau loves playing with Buddy during district meeting. 

Elder Nadeau, Elder Smith and Sister Reay studying hard.  Planning our next visits with investigators.

The desert blooms

My tulips are blooming beautifully

More desert flowers.  This is a prickly pear

Wildflowers

Branding calves, May 3, 2011

I just learned how to drive the tractor so now I guess I'll have some work to do on the Ranch

We all went branding calves and the Elders wanted to have a service project helping brand.  One the left is a ward member and Elder Smith and Elder Nadeau and Elder Reay

John Sanders and some other ranch hands separating the cows and calves

This is Ravella Schmutz and her husband Ray

Elder Smith trying to get calves in the pen

Elder Nadeau getting calves in the pen

Elder Smith and Elder Reay

Elder Smith found a new baby he could pet.