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!

Sunbonnets

 It was fun to make sunbonnets for the YW for the mini trek - they are going to make their own for the big trek in June - but these are so fun and easy that I made them - the polka dot one has a story behind it.  One of our less active Laurels was wearing this very short, kind of immodest dress to church - I told her I needed that fabric for a project would she sell me her dress?  yep - for $25.00 - so I made her a pillow for Christmas that she said she loves ... and then had enough left over for a sunbonnet!

 The leaders one's I made out of calico - funny story.  At our small fabric store I went in and asked for calico - the lady that owns it said - that;s it!  I was ordering today and could only think of gingham - checked - she couldn't think of calico!  I think they turned out great and the girls loved them.  They actually kept the wind out of their faces as the walked the road.

 Making pine needle baskets - I order long pine needles very cheaply on line - 8-10 inches long!

 One of the YW brought a non member friend who was cute and did everything...later Saturday night we went to the grocery store and she was there with her family.  Of course we left early - you know your Dad! but she said she had finished it and even showed us a picture on her phone!  she had taken it to show another friend!

Cabin

 Harold by the old barrell wood stove in the cabin - was plenty warm - we had to open windows - and it was 25-30 outside!

 Two old people in an old cabin - no electricity  - have solar panels and a water tank outside - have to pump to get it into the sink... outhouse in the back yard!

 Two of the YW cooking on the wood stove - we made soup and rolls for lunch.

Old tools in the barn

 Older tools in the barn - Bro. Hansen taught the youth the difference between a rip saw and a crosscut saw.  He had them build a frame for a wall with using only hand tools, also dig a post hole and a friend of his came over and trimmed the horses hoofs and put on horseshoes.

 Old Anvil and bucket of horseshoes.

Hardy's tractor's cousin - far distant cousin - thousands of miles away!

Lewistown Ward Mini-Trek

 Our Lewistown ward held a mini-trek for our YW and YM on Saturday, Feb. 22, 2014.  Brother and Sister Hansen have a mountain cabin out of Grass Range - a small town 30 miles east of Lewistown.  The youth had to walk from the front gate of their 80 acres - up the road about a mile and a half...all made it!

 Isn't it pretty?

 The boys pulling the pony cart - didn't have a handcart but this worked!  arriving at the cabin.

Girls and YW leaders bringing up the rear...and Bro. Hansen - so he could close the gates.