vacation? stay-cation? house work!

I had some use or lose vacation time at work and didn't have anywhere to go so we just stayed home and got some work done around the house.

wood stove removed and pellet stove installed.

we thought we had a pear tree, apparently its a Quince tree

and they're huge

a monkey and a cat riding a 4 wheeler

putting a monkey to work

put the old girl to work also. Levi's 1972 blazer.

we also made 2 dump runs, 4 scrap metal runs, worked on cleaning out the hay storage area, got hay. Saturday we tried to go to the Walla Walla balloon stampede, woke up at 5:30, drove 1.5 hours, and they cancelled it, had a good breakfast though.

A star is born!

So we get home from our camp/hike on September 24th, the 25th Monkey goes down and auditions for a play "The Wiz of the West" Missoula children theater came to town to put it on, A take on the "Wizard of Oz". He gets cast as a tarantula. They had rehearsals Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday before the opening play Friday night, then again Saturday before the closing play Saturday afternoon. 

His solo moment with the main cast of characters

There were 17 tarantulas and 60 kids total in the play.

He was nervous about doing it and when you ask if he wants to do it again you get a different answer every time you ask . The Missoula children theater will be back in May of next year and will be doing Aladdin, we will see if he wants to do it again.