Oregon A-Team - Part 28

Da Roof is on Fire

Today was our official Grub Club of Summer [read it was warm enough to go outside], and to celebrate we had a bonfire with smores. But it wasn’t just any bonfire:

Yes, that is a dog house on the fire, and that is Donald on the dog house. (Don’t worry, we were following all regulations regarding climbing onto burning Dog Houses. And yes we had water and shovels handy for fire suppression =]) The doghouse came with Rosco, and Rosco didn’t like it. We also didn’t like it because it was ugly. So here is it burning:

(The fire’s brightness made everything else really dark =])

Fire suppression at work:

Then we threw on another pallet, and sang songs into the night…

“Yo, Ho, Yo, Ho, a Pirates life for me…”

Tags Fire, Grub Club

Ranch

Anna’s New Wildflower Bed

So we took all of the rocks we found in this thicket after we burned it:

and turned it into Anna’s soon-to-be Wildflower garden:

(You’ll also notice that it has rained recently and the lighting is much better… And the fence is going up. =])

Enjoy,
AshAnna

Animals Mocha Ranch Stone Wall

Pile of AshAnna Pictures

Life around AshAnna’s place has been crazy as of late. We’ve been doing so much, It would take too long to make a post for each item, so I’m going to throw them all together in picture format. I’ll try to do a little of narration to keep you on track.

First: Mocha. I’m sorry, she’s just so ridiculous I can’t help but take the pictures:
Mocha - King of the Jungle...
(This one’s so awesome I created it as a 1440×900 desktop too.)
Anna says "..."
Miracle Grow?
Depression Hurts

Ashton finally got his hair cut:
Time for Ashton's Semi-Annual hair cut

Ashanna created a flowerbed on “the dull side of the house”
Ashton makes yet another stack of rocks

Here’s the progress on the stone wall:
AshAnna's stone wall progress

We rented a post-pounder for the weekend.
Ash+Mocha on a John Deere

We woke up the other day to this:
We wake up to 3 horses all in a row

There were three of them in this next picture… but I was too slow.
Liana and Nora Drinking thirstily

Chickens:
And the red one was pecking at their toes

Enjoy,
AshAnna

Animals

Eagles in the Yard

So I was in the middle of “working hard” when I noticed some birds flying outside my window. To make a long story short; there were two Bald Eagles (one juvenile (all brown), one adult (white head and tail)) flying around and “playing” with two smaller birds which were probably either baby Eagles or hawks (most likely babies).

The adult Eagle dived into the ground just over our fence and caught what was probably a gopher/ground squirrel, and threw it at the juvenile! He grabbed it (off the ground) and flew off with it, which just happened to be right towards my window, so I took this picture:

AshAnna's Eagle

Enjoy,
AshAnna

Ranch Stone Wall

My Summer Project – Stone Wall

Post author By Ashton
Post date April 28, 2008
1 Comment on My Summer Project – Stone Wall

If you’ve ever been to our house, as you drive down our driveway, up to our house, you’ll see a nice line of large rocks on the right, with small trees in between them. On the left, you see a pile of dirt and rocks, covered in weeds.

I (Ashton) got this crazy idea in my mind that I can create a awesome terraced planter there! So, as crazy ideas usually begin, I got right to work. =]

Whoever built our house evidently ran into a bunch of large rocks as they are distributed around the property, including on top of this ugly hill. I brought it upon myself to bring these rocks down, and line them up in a nice straight line. Mind you these rocks are 300-600 lbs each…

Here’s the first shot I took of the area. You can see the random large rocks around the top of this hill: (I have already moved two big rocks into place.)
The Project Begins