Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Camping and Visiting My Boys!
We camped way up in the Mountains behind my parents place, somewhere around 4000 ft.
Home Sweet Home.
Camping Buddies - they've missed me (I am usually at a horse show).
Thisis Chubs - Husky/Chow mix, way better suited for a cold climate - buthe enjoys camping anyways. He is Roper and Kaiser's pal. Chubs belongsto my Hubby's best friend.
Thereis a small pond up there which Roper just loved. It is creek waterthough (so it's snow run off) and it was freezing so Ropes swimmingtime was limited - Kaiser tested the water and refused to go in. Hethought Roper was nuts.
There is my Doper, warming up in the sun.
Both dogs bumming pets off of Hubby's friend.
I had to put up with this all weekend. They played and played and played and played...
Look at Roper's teeth!
And then they'd be pals again.
Their bed in the camper.
Crashed.
A Dog Video...Kaiser and Roper Playing.....
We got to do alot of fishing, mainly in a lake called Black Lake.
Lookat how nice the water is! It was a goregous weekend - in the 80'severyday. Too bad I am used to our typical Memorial Day weekends whereit snows and rains all weekend. I packed like I was headed for theNorth Pole.
Icaught plenty of fish. These were all Tiger Trout, a new hybrid troutthat are less invasive to the native Bull Trout population that theFish and Game Dept has been test planting in this lake, they grow fastand taste good so they are favorite of anglers.
This is out second batch of fish.
We cleaned them and packaged them up right at camp.
The biggest out of the bunch was a 15 incher.
While on a 4-Wheeler ride I noticed this...
It'sa tree that was broken off at the base and push over in such a way thatit is still standing up right. A snow drift did this during the winter- the tree doesn't know it's dead yet - but it is. I would imagine thenext good wind storm will blow it over.
Higher up we visited this lake - it's called Little Twins, great fishing, and just beautiful.
Is this a Muskrat pile or a Beaver home? Note: there is no Beaver Dam anywhere. I was always told it was a Muskrat nest.
Here is another one. Bigger.
Thislake is pretty - but you can't swim in it at all. Well I guess youcould but you wouldn't want to. Remember that scene in Stand By Me???
This is my Hubby and his brother.
Here is my Hubby's friend trying to fish with this mini-fishing kit he keeps in his 4-Wheeler.
There were a ton of baby frogs around.
Andhere we have the reason why you don't want to swim in the lake. It isthe single most infested lake I have ever seen with leeches.
A mountain butterfly I saw on one of our rides.
On one of my visits to the boys - here is Patrick when he spotted my truck driving up the road. Now you can see him start to lighten up with only 4 weeks in the sun.
He begrudgingly came to me.
Mymom's mare and Stretch were a little more enthusiastic as you can see.Yes I have turned him out with everyone else and he thinks he is theboss - this has not gone over well with Patrick, they are not so muchbuddies.
He's got the beggin thing for treats thing down already, and is adapting well to life turned out.
Here they all are - sorry for the crappy pic. But you can see how dark Stretch is and how light Pat is.
Patrick wishes I would put Stretch back in the Paddock. He is so cute though.
Stretch
My travel partner on my way home, curled up like a shrimp.
