EXPLORING WITH JUDI - PHOTO ESSAY
Thought you'd want to know we didn't find any agates.
Today Judi had invited me to go out exploring with her in her jeep. Bonnie and Nancy also let me know later that this could be the day we went to Boar's Tusk. So I had to choose and I had pretty well told Judi that Yes I'd love to do that, so she came over in the morning. We'd talked on the phone and I asked if she would go ahead out on her own if I didn't go. She said yes but she would stop by. In the meantime Joe wasn't feeling well again, and I'd decided I'd better not go anyway at all. But he said to go ahead and go, he'd be fine. Well .... in the other meantime I'd started a big batch of cookies, and started unloading the totally full dishwasher to get all that washed by hand. What a mess the kitchen was when Judi got here. Anyway I made a sandwich for lunch and left the mess undone for the time being. Here are the the photos I took. We had a nice picnic up on the foothills. And back home after spending three or four hours out on a beautiful spring day. Judi also posted photos and text about our trip for you to check out.
Judi standing next to the well
Homestead Well. Dug by hand and rocked from the top down as they dug. Well was 2/10 of a mile from the house and the water was hauled by the children to the house on a cart. Livestock was probably taken to the well for water - ? Imagine doing the laundry and all household needs that way.
Judi and Rollies's Jeep
Williams Homestead - Cousins of Joe's Family - People I knew but who are gone now were raised here. There were 8 children. Their relatives are still ranching here or living in other places around our country..
When I first saw this place 30 or more years ago the walls were still halfway standing, with more evidence of what else had been there. This is not a a very big house for so large a family
Buttercups
Fallen Homestead, first the roof rots or falls from the weight of the snow, then snow which collects inside the walls, pushes them out and they fall.
Reminiscing
We don't know what this is
This we knew - its a pot.
Phlox
Judi got a big wood splinter
We both got battle wounds -Mine from barb wire
Another old place next to the Big Sandy River
A view of the river near Buckskin Crossing. 
