Hello!! I know, it has been ages since I've last written, and I would swear that I'm going to be better from now on but I have no way to absolutely guarantee that, so I'll hold off on that promise until I post a few more and actually have a trend going on :-D
So quick update, at the end of December I moved from Missouri back to Utah and began life anew (like I've done 4 times in 2010...) And well, really that's the update. I currently work 4 jobs, all part time which makes it slightly hard to manage a schedule but possible with kind bosses and a planner that never leaves my purse so I always know where it is....
And despite all this I've managed to maintain a fairly hopping social schedule as well! I had a girls night in with a friend of mine, Cindy, who was getting over a break-up so we consumed massive amounts of sugar, and watched Clueless and laughed hysterically about nothing. (We also decided that Bonnie has sections, and each little section of Bonnie is kind of crazy and odd and maybe a little scary, but if you put all the sections together it makes into a lovely person. See this is what kind of stuff you chat about on a girls night in) I had a girls night out with Tiffany where we had dinner and went to see a movie and catch up on all that's happened since we'd last seen each other. I also started attending a Singles Ward...the jury is still out on how I feel about it, I'm giving it a couple more tries.
But the particularly exciting thing of the week (not that all of those weren't exciting, they for sure were) was a trip to Hardware Ranch with me, Kylan, Mom, and Dad. I had never been up to Hardware Ranch before and Mom and Dad were kind and loving enough to decide that they would take me to go, and even let me invite a friend :-D So on Saturday the 22nd we all headed up to Logan and get to Hardware Ranch and take a sleigh ride and feed the Elk. And I was SUPER stoked!
Of course we got up there and realized that none of us had remembered to bring a camera, which was very very sad. But luckily Kylan's phone had a pretty good camera so we were able to snag at least a couple of pictures of the journey.
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| ELK! (Really they are quite pretty animals, I'd never really thought about it before, but they are) |
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| So, random Elk fact. Their back teeth have rings on them (like a tree) that tell people how old they are. Crazy eh? |
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| I think that particular male Elk had one of the biggest racks of the ones there. Did you know that with Elk the number of points they have doesn't actually dictate how old they are? I didn't! Learn something new everyday eh?) |
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| Me (who was unfortunately caught with a it's-freezing-and-I'm-cold-so-hurry-up-and-take-the-picture smile) and Kylan (who was unfortunately caught with a half smile) |
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| Me, staring at Elk |
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| So this poor Elk had had a tangle with a wire fence earlier in the year, and he had this stuck to his antlers. The tour guy said that it would traumatize him more if they tried to remove it then it would for him to just have it hanging off of his horns until they drop off in May. |
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So that was Hardware Ranch. It was wonderfully fun and the day was continued with lunch out, a beautiful drive around the area we were at, and watching Meet the Robinson's when we finally got home (because why WOULDN'T you want to watch that movie?) It was a fabulous day!
3 comments:
I was surprised to hear you'd never been as the last time I was there it was with the family and we were all older. Hmm I wonder where you were...anyhow it looks like you had fun. It's hard for me to consider something with that much snow as fun right now simply because it's so dang cold!
Elks really are beautiful animals. I am shocked every time Forrest and I see one because he is wishing he had his gun in hand so he could shoot it and put its head on my wall. That is NOT happening.
He did kill one on an elk hunt years ago and he kept the hide. He wanted to put that on our wall but I informed him that the garage was a perfect backdrop for the hide.
It isn't that I didn't like the hide. It is beautiful. I just don't like to be reminded that the life of a beautiful animal was taken.
Don't get me wrong. I understand killing animals and eating them when there is a need (we did eat the meat and it was delicious). However, it was unnecessary because we can fulfill our dietary needs in a different way (NO! I am not a vegetarian). I guess what I really dislike is the belief that seeing an elk means you should kill it.
Um...I was going to say that you were lucky, because I have never been either, then I read Steph's comment. And...I still don't recall ever being there! Where was I when the family went?!?! I've wanted to go for a long time; glad to hear you had so much fun!
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