Headed to Wyoming

We made it to Twin Falls today on our way to Lander.  We stopped at our usual deisel stop "exit 29" I-84 Caldwell.  This year was special in that a friend from Burns and one of her sons met us for a little "catchup".  Weleft pomising to "stay in touch".  Facebook may be worthwhile after all (that is if I can EVER get MY computer back.  :)  )  We stopped at Twin Falls to get my meds and they didn't have any so we have to stay until about 11 tomorrow.  :)  Oh well.  Into every life and all that....................

The Teague Cabin and our old (1980) place on Old Harney Road

Now KEN takes potty pictures.  

A fire in the Prairie City Wilderness area.

Watching the fire.

An owl....... (it's MY imagination)

"The Cabin"

Another good day hanging with Paula.  She is the manager at a discount store in Burns and works too darn much and way too hard.  She needed some time to regain some perspective about life.  (ok done preaching)  She took us up north to their cabin and to a lookout overlooking where we used to do brush disposal contracting. It was neat to see the lookout manned as so many of them have been dismantled.  We ended up the day going up to our old place.  30 years makes a big difference. :)  Ya'think?? It's nice to know the trees we planted survived/thrived.  It is no longer a dust bowl.

The Round Barn and other tidbits

We spent a day with Paula bumming around.  She took us out to Diamondville,  Frenchglen and to the Riddle Brothers old ranch.  This is WAY south and east in Oregon. When we left Burns Harney Lake  was encroaching its way toward Burns. It is an alkali lake so it leaves “stuff” in its path. like destroying farms and ranches.  Since we left it raised several more feet then has nearly dried up now.

We toured all around there.  One of the places we stopped was the Petye French Round Barn. Pete French was a cattle baron in the late  1880's in SE Oregon.  Pete built the barn to train large teams of horses that pulled freight wagons over a nearby wagon route. 

The structure, which is 100 feet in diameter, has a circular 60-foot inner corral surrounded by a 20-foot track used for the horse training during the winter. Juniper posts and an umbrella-shaped center truss-like structure rise from inside the corral to support the roof.  What a cool place.

 We then stopped at the visitor Center,  The center pole is a huge juniper.  I didn't realize juniper came that big.  :)  Paula's ex created it as well as a couple of other novel items: a township sign and a mailbox.

Paul and the manager of the Visitor Center

Ken and I setting in the "hands".

A juniper mail box! Look at that swirl!!

I would be SOOOO upset if I'd driven out there and it was CLOSED!!

What a wonderful day we had seeing new places and thinking about HOW isolated these were.  White Lightening?   hmmmmm?