A little bit of this and a little bit of that in pictures

A Rufus hummingbird (orange) with the others.

Squirrel-proof bird feeder?!?!

The turkeys are two months old now and getting big! They are afraid of me and run as far away as they can get.

The ducks have been turned out, see them on the left in the background? Salty, the old horse, is eating their food. When he saw me walking toward the duck food, he came running to protect it just in case I was going to eat some.

The baby horse lets me pet her. I call her Daisy but that's not necessarily her name. She's not my horse.

Paul and I hiked up above the ranch. The horses could hear us talking and were watching us.

Milissa creatively promotes the See N Save Thrift store and the Teton Valley Hospital Foundation during the annual Victor 4th of July parade.

This Mastiff was incredibly patient.

My float. Teton Valley Adventures snowmobile business. The dune buggy is towing a 1971 Arctic Cat!

I'm a dork.

Paul and I ran from the South Fork of Horseshoe to Corral Creek via a different route yesterday. It was beautiful but the trail was CRAP. Above, Paul is hiking up the last stretch of decent trail for 11 miles.

Some of the crap trail. Steep as anything and super rocky with "baby heads". Luckily, there was no blood shed during this run.

You know you're chronically ill when you...

...have a pajama collection.

...call the pharmacist and she recognizes your voice before you tell her what it is.

...are excited that Zofran has gone generic.

...are psyched to get a computer table tray for sitting in bed as a gift.

...find out that you can order a three month supply of meds online and you think it's great.

...share and discuss journal articles with your doctor.

...have an inbox full of emails all from people with your disease or related to your disease.

...get updates from MedScape.

...set up your pills a month ahead of time in pill holders.

...have pill stashes in your car, purse, backpack, etc.

Feel free to add your own! :)

Big Hole Crest Trail: snow and mud!

The view for most of the "run"

Paul and I ran, scrambled, slipped and pondered the Big Hole Crest Trail on Sunday. It was warm, snowy and muddy. We started out in the South Fork of Horseshoe and came out at Corral Creek. Because of all of the snow and a missed turn, we had a detour down a really hot canyon (twice!). I took 5 mg of HC/hour and used salt pills. I skipped my 11 am and 2 pm HC doses opting for taking a little HC at a time.

Paul, pondering one of the many huge mud pits

Lots of blowdown at the Horseshoe end of the trail

More blowdown

It's summer and there's still LOTS of snow

Beautiful!

Part of the trail, it went up and over the highest point of that hill

One of many, many snow fields

Look in the middle of the picture and you can see a trail going STRAIGHT up the hill to the highest, farthest away point. We had to come down that to find the trail that we should have been on. When we reached this gate, all of the trail markers were laying on the ground, broken from a winter of deep snow

Indian Paintbrush