The annual school “track” meet

Today was the track meet for Zane’s school, grades K-2.  It is always so much fun to watch the kids compete with so much fervor.  Zane is very competitive anyway and he really does put his all into it, regardless of the outcome. 

There are several events and the kids each compete in four of them.  Zane competed in the balloon pop race, the fifty yard dash, the three legged race, and the bean bag on the head race.

Waiting for his first race.Zane seems to always have a good time!  Maybe why he was voted the craziest in his class.Amazing how many of these balloons were so hard to pop.Fifty yard dash.  They run to a midway point, turn around and race back, touch the ground, then turn and run to the end.  Zane slipped in the turn and lost lots of time.  But he finished.Three legged race.  He told his mama he did not know why it was called three legged as they used all their legs.  His partner is Aidan, one of his best friends.They fell right off the bat but only once!They were not the fastest but they just had a great timing down and made it all the way without falling again.This is my neighbor’s granddaughter, Audrey, second from right in the Falcons tshirt.  She is so little.  She is in Zane’s class and was voted most talkative by the class.Look how much fun the kids are having.Bean bag walk.  Last year Zane was really good balancing the bean bag. This year it seems his head was slick!  But again, he just kept going.

The day was cool, cloudy, and a little damp but all in all, it turned out to be a great day!

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Spring is in the air!

Finally we seem to have leaped over all the freezing weather.  My grandmother always said “Don’t plant until after Mother’s Day” and she was usually right!  We were working in the yard and garage today and I was watching the clouds roll in.  Later in the day we did have some thunderstorms.

Those big old fluffy cumulous clouds…This one was taken when we had a slight lull in the rain before the real rain hit.

With spring comes babies and we have had a colt in the field behind us for a couple of weeks. Today I took the time to take a few pictures.  He is a cutie but they will not come quite close enough to pet them.  Darn!

Coming in a little closer…Right by the fence but wary.He would not get too close.Wait, a treasure!It was an old cantaloupe rind.  He thought it was quite good to chew.  So CUTE!

We had a cottontail in the yard.

And last but certainly not least, a Bullocks Oriole.  My neighbor called me to come take a picture of this orange bird.  He did not let me get close so this is what I got before I could get my lens changed. We will be on the lookout for my spring birds traveling.

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Last stop–Copper Breaks State Park

We probably could have made it home without a stop but would have been so tired and it would have been late.  So we decided to stay one more night in one more state park.  It was hot when we got there so we wanted to get the trailer set up and the a/c going!

There was a gorgeous golden sunset.That turned to a nice pick hue with shots of purple.

But not long after we went to bed, the storm hit!  No rain but COLD and so windy.  We were up or awake most of the night rocking like we were on a boat!  I have never been in a trailer when the wind blew that much.  The next morning we packed up in the freezing wind and bucked that head wind all the way home. I think we ended up getting about 7 miles per gallon.  Ugh.  Don’t want to d that again.  But that is part of traveling. 

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