Very Busy Fall Weekend with family

It was such a beautiful weekend here in Colorado, my daughter got to come home from College for a couple of days, she just got done with Mid Terms at Western State College in Gunnison so we had Pizza and watched some movies, then Saturday the whole family got to shoot rifles getting ready for hunting season starting next weekend. 

Then She and I headed to Leadville, Colorado to check out the Evergreen Cemetery in Leadville, that is one of the creepiest cemeteries you will ever see.. She had to do some research for a class project there.  I walked around and looked at all the old headstones and how peaceful it was.  Still a creepy cemetery no matter what.

On Sunday we shot our rifles some more, so now I am really really sore both my back and my arm, but I know if I see an Elk it will go DOWN!! Meat in the freezer is the most important thing to me for my family.  

My daughter just left to head back to school (Sad for me) but she will be home again next weekend since Saturday morning Hunting starts for our season, we usually leave the house around 4 or 5 am to get up in the mountains before first light.  Now I have to get laundry done for the week.. Get all of my husbands work clothes washed and hung up and get dinner going plus enough for the lunches for the guys too.  It is 70 degrees today here in the high country, that is not good.. Right now we need to start getting some snow and a little colder for the Elk to start coming down to lower elevations for hunting, it does not look like that is going to happen at all this next week.

Time to go feed all of the critters and start dinner.. Have a Happy Sunday
 

Beautiful Morning in Colorado

Good Morning to all.
It is a true Beautiful Autumn morning here in the mountains of Colorado. We have lots of snow on the peaks and the Aspens are bright Gold and Red.  I know that the Aspens will not last long with the winds we have been getting.  Sorry I don't have any pictures either.  Camera is broke.   

I just put all 6 dogs out in the yard to do their business and enjoy the fresh air.  Yesterday my hubby and I pulled all of the onions out of the garden,  In total we have over 300 onions now that I am storing for the winter, Reds, Whites and Yellows.  Our garden did really well this year, over 200 lbs of potatoes, and tons of squash too.  Some of the corn made and most didn't but that is the normal for up in this altitude.  It is all good food for the winter months that are coming.  

Today we are going to move the cows to the alfalfa field so they can graze that down for a month or so before we have to move them across the road here to the house for the winter also..  We also have 2 brand new calves they are so cute and very healthy, One was a bull calf and the other was a nice little Heifer that I named Tiny.

The First Hunting season starts this Saturday and runs for 5 days, then Starting October 22nd it will be 2nd season, in which all of my family hunts.  We are hunting for Elk and deer to fill our freezer.  Wish us luck.  We eat venison all year long so the more the better..  That also means that my daughter Dorothy will be home for the first weekend since she has been away at College since August so it will be great to see her.  Hopefully she gets her kill on the first day.  My son Virgil also only has the weekend to hunt since he works 4 days a week cutting trees.  Any meat that they get all goes into one of our big freezers and then I package everything and will send enough home with Dorothy so she doesn't have to worry about grocery shopping while in school.  She goes to Gunnison, Colorado at Western State College.  She loves it there and is studying Forensics and Anthropology.

Well I better get off this is going to be a busy day trying to clean house and get laundry going etc.  Have a great day to all.
Colorado Mom

Welcome to Buena Vista Colorado

Welcome to my very first Blog. 
My Name is Linda Houle and I have a husband and 2 children and we live in the High Mountains of Colorado on a 80+acre ranch. We have a few cows and some Boer meat goats and a few chickens plus 1 horse and several Jack Russell Terrier dogs.

I am disabled so I stay home all of the time taking care of my doggies and I love to take pictures when I have a camera, which for right now is broken.  We are also big time hunters and in two weeks our whole family will be up in the mountains hunting for deer and elk.  We are not trophy hunters, we are hunting strictly for the meat, that is what we survive on all year long.  I can do a lot with deer and elk burger and it is healthy for us too.

I promise to keep writing more each day, some of it might be boring stuff but exciting for us here in the rural parts of Colorado so I hope you all enjoy