Trails Left Behind During the Last Days of Camping...2011

These are mostly pics along the shore and small inlets of Hemingford Reservoir taken during the last camp outing of the season. More signs of the summer high water can be often be seen as was the case in yesterday's photos along the tree line. All kinds of critters make their way to water during the night time hours and my Babee Girl sniffs out the trails they leave behind.

The deer and the worms all get thirsty!

Early fall rushes and willows

Deer trails in the sand

High water lines

Left behind

Badger tracks?

Coons must get thirsty too!

Moving towards dusk

Babee Girl is working the trail

Left over from summer high water

REFLECTIONS

I worked so hard following all those trails, now it's nap time with Dad...

Old man winter will soon welcome the ice-fishermen to our little lake!

Last days of camping...2011

Photos taken during our last camp out of the season. Hemingford Dam aka Box Butte Reservoir is a lake fairly close to home. We always make at least one trek there and sometimes several just to spend a few days of relaxation. The flood waters all over the country also affected our small lake as the incoming river swelled over the summer. Water levels raised to some of the highest ever and left its marks on the landscape around the lake.

High water lines on the trees in areas usually used for tent camping

 Late summer saw the water levels receding as this lake is used for irrigation of farm crops throughout western Nebraska...a practice that has drawn the levels down for years in the fall. This always draws down the lake to extremely low levels. This year the water level, although it may appear low in these photos, is actually up pretty good. Beginning next year it will no longer be used for irrigation so for the first time, the level will stay high year round. The unusual high water left some odd scars on the surrounding land features. Today and tomorrow I will share a few of these photos, today's features are mostly sights through the trees.

Thanks for viewing!

Cheri

Hannah's Snake Bite Cure

Hannah Hyndman Lee was an early pioneer to Wyoming and she wrote this little tidbit about a method of snake bite cure which was found among her papers after her death in 1918 . It appears that Hannah may have copied it from an article in The Kansas City Star in 1902. I thought it was interesting and made this scrapbook page from her handwritten document.

 Hannah also wrote a lengthy journal which is in possession of our family about one of her trips to Wyoming from Iowa by covered wagon. The family settled in an area near Jackson Hole, Wyoming and later built a log cabin and lived near Albin, Wyoming. The full transcription of her journal and  the story of Hannah can be found here on my other blog: Those Old Memories.

http://www.thoseoldmemories.blogspot.com

HANNAH HYNDMAN LEE  1838-1918

!  The snake bite cure is presented only for its historical and genealogical value... do not rely on the cure.

Last Photos Before Mother Nature Brings Mr. Frost

Today I wandered the yard, mostly lamenting the fact that our garden is still full of tomatoes and other vegetables that will never get ripened. Our late and wet Spring set the garden process back by 2-3 weeks all season long. We have had a great harvest from the garden and shared with neighbors and family but the bounty still on the vine is unbelievable this year. I am making salsa again today and took a break to walk the yard and take pictures.

Over the coming weekend we are to finally get enough of a night time temperature drop to put an end to the growing season. Actually, we have been lucky though as our area of western Nebraska usually has the first heavy frost long before now.

Anybody want bushels of green tomatoes?

Waning beauties.

How did that imposter get in there?

We will be using that old sled before too long!

Darn squirrels!

Open season on squirrels....we like to eat the WHOLE thing.

Year three nurturing the asparagus. Next year we harvest, yeah!

Hope these babies ripen quickly.

Cherry tomatoes produced buckets full and have not quit yet.

How about fried green tomatoes?

and more!

Stuffed peppers are on the menu...and in the freezer.

He watches over the backyard jungle

Grandpa Moore's old paint scaffold ladder loves the wood vine!

Turning leaves off the deck.

Where have all the babies gone?

Wyoming beauty!

Traveling through Wyoming is one of our favorite journey's and we are lucky to live close enough to spend many days touring my husband's home state. Our son often accompanies us as we travel, camp, fish and walk the backwoods of our beloved Wyoming.

These photos were taken not far from Curt Gowdy State Park which is west of Cheyenne. We drive the back roads and walk the streams taking in the vast diversity of scenery.

views walking along the creek

picking chokecherries...for wine making

Miss Canadian Mist Sharpei

One of my babies! "Misty" loves to travel with us and is such a good girl in the vehicle but a bit restless around camp. Dad can't walk away 20 feet with out her getting anxious because he is not close to her. Although a Sharpei mix, she inherited their extremely stubborn streak and we dare not unleash her in the outdoors or she would be off in a flash, forgetting where she was. Gruffy sounding voice and bark but the kindest hearted dog ever. She has grown up with our 8 grandchildren and loves them all, never a snap or even a growl. They sit on her and just move her "hulk" out of their way when playing. She is now 12 1/2 years old and slowing down...but she still loves her lick or two of the beer dribbles and boy can she work that bottle around to her advantage!

As some of you may know, I am part of the team of the You Go Genealogy Girls. Ruby, aka Girl #1 is a bad influence on our "Miss Misty" dog. Ruby comes to visit, gets the dog all riled up with play and wild footsie games...and who is the one who gets scolded? Misty loves to have her come visit though and assumes that any visitor to our door is there just to see her!

This is the closest thing I do to sharing of photos of my "children". Those of our real children and grandchildren, I do not share much online, so I hope you enjoy meeting our other "kids" as I will be showing more photos of all of them here from time-to- time!