On the trail again

On extra good days we get to have trails not trials. Here is Eric on Clay with neighbor Roy moving neighbor Dennis's cows. Long time blog followers will recognize Clay from his baby pictures on the blog in Spring 2007. Eric is pretty proud of his progress.
True cowgirls wear their hats low.
Tess and Dad working hard. Eric got a fresh horse for moving the cattle back and for ponying Peanuts. She is Clays 1/2 sister and this is sure a nice shot of the "line-back dun." Isn't there a poem about that?
Speaking of shots, all photos in this entry are again courtesy of Karen Bennett who is our hero, as always.

Tess and Peanuts who I think are both a little on the tired side. I hear there was plenty of cow trailing songs sung in an effort to keep Tess awake and them dogies moving, but Eric would never admit to singing, so only those present will know for sure.

Tess started preschool this week. This is her first, first-day-of-school picture. So far she seems to being doing just fine. She gives us very little information about what happens at preschool, preschool must be a lot like Vegas I guess.

Over labor day, Eric and I went to Napa Valley for our anniversary.

Grapes every where you look. I told my dad it was sorta like going to Nebraska to visit corn fields, excepts they don't have moonshine tastings on the edge of the fields in Nebraska.

We rented bikes on Sunday and biked about twenty miles, stopping at several tasting rooms along the way.

More grapes! But you can see how dry the hills are...not what I was expecting.

Golden Gate. The Bay Bridge was closed, so we were expecting traffic to be much worse, but we were lucky.

Fisherman's Wharf which we visited on the way back to the airport. Interesting for us landlubbers.

Sea Lions. Tess would have loved this. But, she had fun staying with grandma and pops and they went to the National Trails Center in Casper where she learned about wagons.