Oregon A-Team - Part 26

AshtonAnna’s Baby Mustang

Post author By Ashton
Post date August 20, 2008
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What a crazy morning.

(Let me first introduce the latest additions to our “ranch.” Anna purchased two wild mustang mares (females) at auction. Here they are:

Wild Mustangs
Nevada and Aspen.

After purchasing the mustangs Anna was reading through the pamphlet they gave her, and it said there was always a possibility of a wild mare being pregnant.)

Now that you have met the mustangs, here’s this morning’s story:

The first thing Anna tells me in the morning is it looks like the coyotes ran off with our chickens. She couldn’t find them anywhere. So we both went looking for them, and found them a good 70 yards from their coop on the north side of our house.

After we brought the chickens back to their almost franticly lonely duck (poor guy), we decided to take a walk down our driveway to see how our newly-planted, baby trees are doing. We’re about half-way down our driveway and Anna says. “What is that?!?!”

Remaining as calm as possible, I look over into the pen and see this:

Wild Mustangs
What is that in front of aspen? No way, it’s a baby! Enjoy the pics of mini-aspen:

Wild Mustangs

I’m sure there will be more to come from AshtonAnna’s Ranch.
-AshtonAnna

UPDATE: This just in: the new foal is a female (filly)!
We’ll be choosing her name tomorrow.

Tags Aspen, baby mustang, Horses, Maple, mustang

Trips & Activities

Montana Circus Fun

While my sisters, brother-in-laws, niece, and nephews were here in Montana we went to a circus here in our little town of Polson. I was pretty impressed by the acts, animals and production they put on. We got to see a zebra, snake, hippo, llamas, elephants, ponies, clowns, dancers, acrobats and a contortionist.

Enjoy the photos!!

Family Montana

Ashton’s Family in MT v1.0

Post author By Ashton
Post date August 9, 2008
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Here is the first half (hopefully) of the picture blog of my family (Mom, dad, brother and Grandpa Joe) visiting Ashanna’s House in Montana!

Enjoy!

One of the things we did was go to the local Museum:
AshAnna in MT

AshAnna seeing who’s Bicep is bigger.

The Boys on a Teeter-Totter

This week we had the largest attended grubclub yet! We had over 25 people there!
AshAnna in MT

We also hit the Flathead lake:
AshAnna in MT

We visited Lee Kessler in Eureka:
AshAnna in MT

And then went to a RODEO!!!

AshAnna in MT

Look at all those shoes collected by the Lost and Found!

Just Kidding:

My parents should be sending me their pictures, and then I’ll have another update!

Summer Trips & Activities

Montana Rafting

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

Tags flathead, flathead raft co, flathead river, Rafting

Ranch

Our Well Almost Went Dry?!?

Post author By Ashton
Post date July 15, 2008
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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