Flashback's from Myspace

I started the world of blogging on Myspace several months ago, which, of course is inferior. And I have fairly cute stories on there that I would like to have here, so I don't lose them. So, you're getting some flashbacks - that aren't really flashbacks, but worth reading about, even if out of sequence.

Tradition: From 05/28/07
So, yesterday...it was almost like we lived in hurricane, ut....as the wind was horrible! But, alas, I was the only one home and it was up to me to keep up the memorial day tradition of driving down the alleys of Lander and stealing...I mean...collecting all of the flowering foliage to decorate Mom's grave. So with the baby in the car seat and with the trunk open and my pruning clippers at my side, we set to work lurking the dusty road. A trunkful of leaves, lilacs, honeysuckle, bridal veil and even some bleeding hearts created a lovely arrangment upon the grave. It was FAR to windy to place them in a flower pot, and even the ground arrangment blew over three times before I was done. But we did quietly, secretly and alone carry on the tradition of so many years! And we got smiles from heaven.

Dog and Stroller - what baggage! from June 2007
Today I have success. I have been trying to figure out how to take the dog and the baby on a walk. The baby is too heavy to put in a snuggli for lengths of time and holding the leash with one hand and pushing the stoller with the other...also too awkward. See, Corbet is a big dog and jerking him back on to the side walk gets exhausting after two or three good yanks. And if I leave him at home to go on a walk he howls...and howls and howls and howls until I return. You can ask the neighbors. (once a whole THREE HOUR stretch, we went to the park)
So today I looped the leash ONTO the stroller. It turns out that this is the best thing EVER! Corbet generally likes to wander away from me in a side to side pattern as opposed to a forward backward direction. This is fantastic because now he pulls on the stroller, which is a JEEP - all terrain stroller and it is resistant to such verticle stresses!! YEAH!! Now me and baby go forward and the dog tags along after trying to slide away to NO avail! We can now all go walking together in harmony. It is a good day.
P.S. I will be speaking on father's day Sunday.

The cow story at church: Father's Day 07
The talk is finished. I did fine, the content was fantastic.
During the talk I told a story about a time my father and I had to gut a cow on the side of the road. The brand inspector called, this cow had been hit in the head by an ambulance racing into town. Apparently the meat was good, only the head had damage...gross. So dad and I bundled up against the COLD Wyoming evening and set to gutting out a cow on the side of the highway. My job was to hold the back leg of the cow up in the air. (she was on her side.) Well, with the wind and cold, the only way for me to stay warm was to snuggle up against this animal. It was a very Empire Strikes Back moment like when Han puts Luke in the dead Tom Tom. So then some hours later after she was gutted, wenched up on flat bed truck and taken to the meat packers.....we find out. She is not our cow. She was laying on the side of the brand, only once she was delivered to the packers did we know.
This does not mean I like public speaking in church any more than I did before...it just means I told a cool story.