This might be Max's most expensive birthday present ever...

Pop-up trailer/toy hauler we got yesterday, a used one but in very nice condition.

All popped out...

 We set it up on our land to make sure all the "kinks" are out before we take it far from the house (and before Max takes it elk hunting in the Colorado mountains).  And also because it was a fun thing to do on Max's birthday.  It is beautiful fall weather here today, nice and calm and in the 80s.  We are looking forward to taking it out as a family.

Now we just have to get further than our own backyard, and we'll be camping for real...

 

 

Evelyn flooding, I mean, watering the "fwowers"

The chicken coop...

I know, a very romantic place to declare my love for Max.

So that's where all the ducks have been laying their eggs...Before it just looked like a pile of feathers...  Not sure whether to take them inside or leave them for the ducks to hatch.  There is a male duck, but we've never witnessed him doing his male thing with the female ducks.  Hard call...

Got him...

This is the monster that killed our chickens.  Okay, he may not look that ferocious, but ask the chickens, they'll tell you...5 left out of 20.  Let's just say they were traumatized for a while, but a cheer went up from the chicken coop when ten .22 shots went into him and 4 shots from a 20 gauge, all under the barn (not an easy task...that sucker did not want to die!).  Can't say that I'm sad....

Exploring Colorado...

I guess this one deserves some explanation...It was actually my fault that JB ended up dressed like a wild boy raised by wolves or something...I was foolish and put my unopened can of  Hansens soda on a slanted rock, which almost immediately rolled off into a little pond at the bottom of a little waterfall.  Max told JB to get my drink while still in his clothes...usually obedient and energentic, especially when it involves adventure, JB jumps into the water with his clothes on.  He rescued my soda but ended up taking off his shorts and underwear to let them dry in the sun.  He didn't want to walk around buck naked (a change for JB), so he wrapped his shirt around his waste.  Of course he had to have a weapon to defend himself against any peepers...

 Now JB has shorts and no shirt...

Evelyn sings 'Jesus Loves Me"

I sing Jesus Love Me to Evie whenever she goes to bed and Max finally got it on video...