Gone and some stories

So Ellen decided she didn't want to have the bushes behind the house any more. Don has this little track hoe and he said that he would bring Derrick and Sheila up and we could spend the day visiting and pulling up the bushes. Here are some shots of us working really hard. It had rained a lot the past couple of days and so the ground was just right to pull up the bushes. Here is Don running is outfit.

It was quite the handy outfit. The bushes had a lot of little roots that didn't go down in the ground, but they shot to the sides. They pulled up a lot of dirt and kind of made a mess of things. Here you can see Derrick and Clay (Kandyce's fiance) picking up the bushes. Clay would use the 4-wheeler and haul the bushes to a big bush pile in the field.

The next picture showed what the women folk were doing. Just visiting as we worked really hard. 

Actually they did help. Sheila Kandyce decided they needed a break and Ellen caught them watching and talking. This next picture even shows Kennan actually helping. He was guiding Don on how to pull up the bush.

Here is Clay just getting back from making a dump of the bushes. He loved driving the 4-wheeler.

When everything was cleaned up and hauled off, McKenzie and Kennan went for a ride on the 4-wheelers. They went around and around and around and around and around and....... well you get the point..... around Gram's house.

As I said before we had been getting rain off and on again the past week. This last week we had a gorgeous rainbow. It was a full one as you can see. Also notice that there are no more bushes. Some of them were actually dying and that was another reason we got rid of them.

This next picture of the rainbow is really neat. If you look closely, you can see the blue/purple colors starting all over again. You'll probably have to double click on it and try to zoom in, but the rainbow was so bright. It was just a great day.

This week is the volleyball camp starting on Wednesday. I do have a funny story about the kids going back to Washington DC. I was told it was a very quiet ride on the subway from the airport to their motel. They were the only white people on the subway. I'm sure it has been a culture shock for our innocent students. When they went to Church, they noticed that there were not a lot of white people there. Here is another Cokeville story. When they got to the Salt Lake Airport, as they were passing through the detector, Landon Cornia set the whole thing off really bad. They pulled him to the side and asked him to empty his pockets. He then realized that he had gone rabbit hunting the night before and forgot to empty his pockets. Yes he had gun shells in his pocket. Only happens to kids from a little tiny town called Cokeville.