Michael's Neverland

This weekend, Keith and Tricia invited us to the family ranch in Chesterfield, Idaho for Memorial Day. The ranch (Chesterfield Station) covers nearly 11,000 acres! It was crazy to be surrounded by nothing, but cows and hills.

We started out here...

It was a bit/very cold that first night, so we were upgraded into the house after that. The teepees were a nice touch though. We had a great menu of tin foil dinners & roasted mallows...I like camping food!

Saturday was cold and rainy but we enjoyed some volleyball, games, relaxing and then we met this fella...

(Bucky)

Michael loved cowboy suiting up...

and it was more than once that I saw this silouette...

Then we went out on the town to do some dancing.

It was really fun. It made me wish I knew this dance though. Thank you, Miley, for that goodness!

On Memorial Day, Chesterfield has a whole big shin dig at the town site. We got to look through the restored houses, have penny candy, and old school rootbeer and sarsaparilla. We got to see the outhouse Keith's brother made. Fortunately, I did NOT have to utilize it.

Tricia and Keith also enjoyed some cotton candy which always makes a picturesque scene.

After the festivities, the group-minus me- went out to do activities that included words like...

herding...roping... castrating....branding...ear tags...shots...yelling...and in Michael's case- tackling. If the ropers only succeeded in lassoing one hind leg instead of two, Michael had to wrestle the calf to the ground (apparently no easy task). Michael tries to get sympathy for his bruised/sore body, but I know he was really having the time of his life.

Those activities were not my particular cup of tea, but it was a great weekend. We took rides, ate great eats, found out that I am an amazing shot, and enjoyed our time with the Crandalls. Thanks for a great weekend!