| August 2024 | |
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| Rose got on a kick of buying my quilts for the grandsons.  Then she blesses me with a picture of them with their quilt. | Here is Erik with his Native Horse quilt. | 
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| KCF church campout weekend. Tyler & Sharee came in for a visit! | Drake was super helpful with the corn hole bags! | 
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| This is why I'd like a bigger bed in the camper, these two use it all up! | Sunset songs around where the campfire would be if there weren't restrictions in place. | 
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| Frannie, she's sweet but still a pup so she had too much energy for Buddy. Here he sits in my lap to escape her. | She had a wonderful time in the dust and with all the people. | 
|  |   Sunset over beautiful Lake Koocanusa. | 
| Eric keeps Drake laughing by making funny faces. They are buds. | |
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| Montana Shakespeare in the Park with our friend Michael. | There's always a big turn out for this annual event. | 
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| We got spots right beside the Eashes so Eric could pester Drake. | The steers being moved from the ranch back to our land. | 
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| Stryker dog!  He is such a happy guy.  Jeb & Amy were
  gone so we did a welfare check on the dogs. | Carson & Buddy are actually friends, despite how it looks in this side-eye picture. | 
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| We attended a lovely fundraising event at the Timbers for Nazina
  NGO.  It's for a local girl who now lives in Uganda and runs a school there. They have a huge family and they are very talented musically, it was great. | Our friend Laura took this photo of us at the event. | 
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| Rose hosted a family dinner at the ranch when Cody Casazza was in town for a visit. | Of course I got pictures of everyone but Cody, well, this gets the back of his head. | 
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 | On a field trip to see our friend Jane's new studio. Opens in 2025! | 
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| Buddy helping me photograph a baby quilt I made for my Mom's best
  friend. Dana was getting her first grandbaby so I tried to make it a special quilt. | Lincoln County Fair time! The food court is always the gathering place for this big social event. | 
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| Saturday night at the fair started with checking on my quilt entries. 
  This one on the table beside me won a blue ribbon! | This one got 3rd place against stiff competition. | 
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| The main attraction - The Bull Thing! It's the biggest event in Eureka, a PBR televised event. | I believe they said the crowd was over 5,000 people.  I think that's
  more than the population of Lincoln County! We get a LOT of visitors from Canada and the Flathead Valley for this. | 
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| Lily wants to cuddle SO much, but the other pets do not like her
  closeness.  At all. She only likes to cuddle with Eric and I when we sleep. | A lovely evening spent at Larry's house. Dinner followed by watching the
  sunset over a fire on his all-season porch. | 
|   Speaking of Larry's house, there it is with some August snow in the mountains above. |  | 
| Our trail camera didn't get any bears since April, but I like this picture of an owl. We love our owls. | |
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 | Mostly we got about 849 pictures of this guy. | 
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| On a whim, I sent Tripp's quilt to the Cherokee Nation Holiday Quilt
  Show. Desirae & Mom went to look at it. | It won a ribbon for "furthest traveled".  Now it's at it's
  new home with the wonderful Dana. |