Primary Pioneers

 Here is the Lewistown Ward Primary with the Pioneer bandana's for boys and sunbonnets for girls - cute!

 It was really fun to make these and the Primary kids were really excited about them.

One little girl wanted a pink one and the next day I happened to drive by her house as she was getting home from school and she had her bonnet on!!

Charlie Russell Museum Great Falls Montana

 This is part of the Browning Gun Collection at the Charlie Russell Museum in Great Falls, Montana - awesome old guns and pistols and this is about half of them.

 The blue frame house is the Russells in Great Falls - they moved there in 1900.  Next to it the log cabin was built for an art studio, in 1903.  Most of the painting he did after 1903 were done here.

 The governor commissioned a painting for the State Capitol and Charlie had to raise the roof two logs to make the ceiling high enough to paint the large canvas.

 Handsome Harold at the museum gift store.

They have a great interactive area for kids to climb into the teepee and feel the buffalo robes, etc.  Dad wanted this picture so you would all know we are really losing our minds!  It was fun!!

snowy march II

 As the snow melts it looks like tiny clothes on the clothes line!

Our neighbors garage - cornice with ice cycles hanging from it!

Snowy March

 We woke up to this beautiful snowstorm - at least I said it was beautiful and Dad said - yes if it was December!  Notice the snow on the clothes lines and the chain link fence!

 Tree in our front yard - so pretty.

 Neighbors pine tree.

Pretty scene across the street at the hospital - it should get up to 40 degrees today - it is 15 right now - so all this snow should melt...I'll enjoy it while I can.

Deer Bed

 This is a deer bed that Dad found outside this morning - we feel it is warmer near the bricks of our flower bed.  Glad we can help out the deer - they eat our plants but we eat them!

Wood burning stove and snowy park

 I didn't include this picture of the wood burning stove in the Mini-trek post - isn't it something?  Sister Hansen making lunch in the background...we made bread and rolls in the oven, taco soup on top - it was all very yummy.  I learned that certain woods give out more heat and you have to try and keep a constant temp.  So glad I have an electric range and oven - very impressed with our pioneer mothers who used these.

 This week one of the girls I mentor and I were driving by a park we like to visit in better weather - look closely the snow is over the swings!!

 The baby swings have about another 3 inches clearance - lots of snow!

The playground equipment - pretty buried!

Snow - Snow and more Snow

 Here Harold is shoveling - again - our back walkway.

 The Snow Fence is buried!!

 Drift of snow over the sidewalk.

View from our bedroom window!