Horses

Weather changed from cloudy in the morning to hot sun for the rest of the day, with some drizzle in between... typical CO weather. It was hot in our hose as temperature reached 84F in the afternoon -- didn't turn on AC because we kept on thinking it'll get cooler and it just got hotter and hotter.

We ended up staying at home today since I was too exhausted to drive to Denver after the bloody morning. RyanC had another nose bleed episode during morning nap and this time he got blood all over the carpet and door. It was messy but the boy was okay. When we did laundry to wash his bloody sheets, we were lucky to find out that the 4 layers of sheets used were all bloddy and they were just enough to protect the mattress from getting bloddy. Why do we use 4 layers? It's really because we were too cheap to buy a water-proof mattress cover for RyanC's mattress -- so we just added more sheets to protect against overflowing diaper conditions. It was amazing to see that detergent and oxy cleaned up all the various bloody spots.

I finally got something done for our own yardwork though. I mowed the lawn and trimmed the edges when the weather cooled in the evening. This was the first lawn mowing for our yard this year - sure dragged it out long enough!

Also got some more shooting done when horses showed up in the farm behind our backyard earlier in the day. One of the perks of our house's location is that we get to see rabbits, horses, dogs, and cows occasionally. In the early days when our grass was severely overgrown, the horses would reach over the wired fence and eat our grass. The following pictures were taken at with the Tamron 28-300mm zoom lens at 300mm. The first picture shows the view of the horse where we had trouble telling head or tail initially.


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If all goes well, tomorrow we will head to Denver for some food and groceries!