Cedarvale Ranch in Hillsboro, Montana

Hello Everyone, here is the final addition to our last camping trip of 2018.
Our campground was in Wyoming but only a short 30-45 minute drive to Montana where the remnants of the Cedarvale Ranch still stand.
Be fore warned that there are a lot of pictures for this one.

They let you know the length of your hike.
It's funny, because it was a harder hike going down to the town than it was going back to the truck on the same trail. I had to stop a couple of times on the way down and none on the way back.

On the way down to Cedarvale Ranch.
Each one of the signs has a bench to relax on if you don't want to take the full hike.

This is one of the old corral and stable areas.

 

A rustic hand made bench almost half way down to Hillsboro.

 

A couple of deer hiding in the tall grass just outside the town.

 

The start of the small community of Hillsboro, Montana.

The Hillsboro Post Office.

The Large Chicken Coop.

Eddy Hulbert's House and a small coop.

The Milk House

A bridge over the creek and the Root Cellar.

We couldn't get a good picture of the inside of the root cellar but had a place to hang thing, and lots of bins and a few shelves left over.

 

The Dude Cabin and the Blacksmiths Shop.

The Dude Cabin/Bunkhouse

 

The Blacksmiths Shop

 

You can see where the forge once sat in the corner.

 

 This bench is where Eddy Hulbert was said to do his silver work.

This is where the Barry's home once stood. It burned down during the winter of 1947-48.

There are a couple of picnic tables and this double sided bench that tells of the Cedarvale Ranch on one side and has a map of the ranch on the other side.

It's neat place to visit if your into old towns and ranches like we are.

Well that's it for this post, so until next time.......

 

Take Care Everyone

Hugs, Sandy

 

Bighorn Canyon & Ewing-Snell Historic Ranch

I'm back with the second post from our camping trip.
On Sunday Sept. 29th the second day of our camping trip we took a drive to the Bighorn Canyon.

Then we drove over to the Ewing-Snell Historic Ranch in Montana.

There wasn't a whole lot of things to see, but it is always amazing to see old historic places.

 

We also saw the group of does and fawns.

 

That's it for today, so until next time.......

 

Take Care Everyone

Hugs, Sandy 

Horseshoe Bend Campground

Hello Friends, Hope all is well with you.

 

That snow on October 13, if I recall right in the 25 years that we have lived here, is the earliest we have gotten snow. It dropped 3" worth, but only lasted two days after it was done. 

Usually it doesn't snow until around Halloween.

Here is our last camping trip on Sept. 28-30, 2018

We went back down to Wyoming and stayed at the Horseshoe Bend Campground 20 miles outside of Lovell, WY. This was a first as the campground had electrical hookups, but the water was shut off at the beginning of September thru May. It was $25 a night for the electric sites and $10 a night for no hookups. They also have a dump station and water fill up, but they close those Sept. - May also.

If you open the picture you can see our white 5th wheel, It's the ONLY one in the whole campground. That's right we had the whole place to ourselves and only had two other campers (a pop-up and a motor home) stop overnight the first day. They were both gone before noon.

There were lot's of beautiful views and even though it was chilly we walked around the campground, my hubs taking campsite pictures for his camping blog and later me getting the scenery shots.

We were treated to another beautiful Wyoming sunset on our first night.

When I was out walking around the rocks and juniper bushes I found plenty of these spiny guys just waiting to stab you.

 

Look at the spines on those suckers, some were close to 2" long. 

Glad we didn't have dogs, I'm sure I would have had to pull a few from their feet.

That's it for the campground pictures, we drove around on Sunday to a couple of historic ranch sites and to the Bighorn Canyon, I'll post about them on another day since it will be another picture heavy post.

Well, it seems that the 2018 camping season has come to a close for the hubs and I here in South Central Montana. 

All the freezable items have been removed, the tanks and water heater have been drained, the water lines blown out, and RV antifreeze has been added to the vacation home. 

We still need to remove the batteries and put them in the basement, the hubs isn't looking forward to that since those 12 volt batteries are big and heavy and there are 4 of them. 

Take Care Everyone

Hugs, Sandy

And so it begins.....

Hello Friends; I hope all is well with you.

If you have been reading my blog for a bit you know that there is one thing on this earth that I have a huge LOVE / HATE relationship with, and it is this.......

Yes, it's that beautiful fluffy wet cold white crap. 

2" worth at 9:30 AM when I took the pictures and it has been falling all day long. It shouldn't hang around long as it is supposed to warm back up into the 50's and 60's this coming week.

These were all taken from my backyard and in the last picture you can see two deer laying under the trees in a dry area. I never knew they were there since I just pointed the camera over the gate and clicked the button.

Take Care Everyone

Hugs, Sandy

October TUSAL Update

I totally spaced on the TUSAL update for October.

Better late then never. 

Here they are all secure in their jar. 

Not a lot but I didn't really stitch an awful lot during September. 

Only managed the three smalls I posted for the Smalls SAL.

Their all wild after getting out of the jar.

Had to shake the jar to get them all out.

That's it for my ORT report. 

 

"The Laptop Chronicles"

I got the laptop back on Tuesday and started it up only to have it shut itself back off after a minute or two. The longest I could keep it running was a few hours on Wednesday then it would shut back down. It kept having a pop-up saying the battery was very low, and when I checked the battery icon it would read 0% battery, plugged in, not charging. Which can be a common occurrence, I've read, with Windows 10.

The hubs got it to stay running long enough to do a few diagnostic tests and found that everything was working right but the battery was toast. Don't know how they missed that at the shop, but maybe it was behaving while they did their upgrades and fixes. That set us back around a $100 dollars.

The hubs took it with him so he can see if he can find out what type of battery it needs, he tried on-line but got so many different search results for my laptop he got tired of looking. 

 

Moral of the story: 

Don't leave your laptop sit for a year without plugging it in to charge at least once or twice a month.

 

Still sorting through all of the camping and side trip photos, should be done with them by the weekend.

That's all for today friends, so until next post......

Take Care, Stay Safe 

& Happy Stitchin'

 

Hugs, Sandy