Thursday, July 20, 2006

First day on the Woodland Family Farm-/Day 1 in Uintas

Today was the first full day at the Jake Woodland "Farm". We had a great time becoming accustomed to the farm life.

Nick Woodland, Ryan Berger and Casey Woodland (Ryan's old friends from Springville)



When we got to the Woodlands, they put him right to work doing "farm" chores. Here Ryan is feeding the goats. Notice he is looking around carefully, as the day before one of the goats, Kermit, decided Ryan's bum looked like dinner and he took a bite.




Here's Kermit the Goat.
Since Kermit decided it was okay to bite Ryan, it only seemed fair that Ryan was able to get a free ride around the yard.







When you live on a farm, sometimes your sheep get out of the fence. When that happens, you can call Ryan to put them back. Ryan was fearless putting these sheep back in. With the rope, he is an official sheep herder.









We had a great time today with the Woodlands. I haven't laughed this much in a long time.

Tonight we headed up into the Uintas. When we left, it was 89 degrees, as we started driving up the mountain, we hit the afternoon thunderstorm and by the time we got to our camp ground it was 59 degrees. It dropped 30 degrees in about 45 minutes. It had stopped raining by the time we go to our camp ground, so it was really nice and cool.

Here's our campsite (and new tent).