On this day, the Sanders Family + Grampa Joe went Rafting with Flathead Raft Co. It was the most fun we’ve ever had on a river, and Grampa Joe cannot stop talking about it (even months after). I’ll let the pictures do the talking:
Talk about crazy fun. Everyone was smiling and laughing afterwards. At least half of the boat was very worried/scared about flipping, but in hind-sight are very happy that we did. It was a blast.
-AshtonAnna
This story starts on Thursday the 10th of July, but first a little background:
We live on a 20 acer parcel of land, and since we are so far away from the “city” of Polson, we can’t get “city water.” (Thank Goodness!) We have our own well. The well is 280 feet straight down and produces 7 gallons of delicious water a minute.
Back to the story:
On the 9th of July, Anna spent a lot of time watering the yard getting ready for Ash’s family to arrive starting on the 17th. There was probably at least one hose on all day long.
On the 10th of July, (exactly one month since the snow) we were just starting our weekly Grub Club and water stopped coming out of our faucet… What?! About 30 minutes later, it came back on but was kind of dirty, with small flecks of dirt.
No!!! We only have 7 days to get the entire property ready for family to arrive, we don’t have time to get another well dug!
To make a long story short: After talking to many pump experts, neighbors and studying as much as I could get my hands on over the next three days, I found that there was a small electrical problem with the control box! Whew! After and hour of driving and $12, I had the well pump running again smoothly!
Ash just Databased the Mainframe!
Wasup?!
-Ashanna
Round 2…
Fight!
Mocha was sitting on my desk looking out the window as she normally does every day. It was still nice and cool outside, so I opened the window so Mocha could stick her head out… The second the window opened: Mocha jumped out of it, landed 10 feet down, sprinted 20 feet into the bushes and a second later came out with a snake:
As you can see the snake was about as long as Mocha is! 
Then she took the snake under our porch to play with it.
After I took that last picture, I brought Mocha inside so the snake could return to it’s life in the hopes of getting large enough to help Mocha and Rosco in the quest to remove all gophers from our land.
And since I’m posting about Mocha, here are some picture of Mocha being adorable:
Hahaha, what a spoiled cat.
-AshAnna
This was a great Fourth of July. This was the first time in at least three years that I was not out at Camp Cherry Valley (CCV). We also had Mike Hedge from LA visiting us. Mike is a (very good) photographer, and he took more than 900 pictures while he was here. Here is what we did on the Fourth of July through Mike Hedge’s lenses:
Here’s some pictures of our house:
(I brought these green urchin shells home from CCV)
Here are some of our Animals:
Our House:
Time for Breakfast:
Time to head out…
To the Lake:
We took a break and visited the Stanfield’s for a boat and some more photos:
Then Back to the lake:
For some water skiing:
We met up with the Grub-Clubbers at Pizza Hut…
And went off to do some Sparklers and Fireworks!
Happy Fourth,
AshAnna