Last week I spent 7 days in Huron with mom. I had a pretty great time! As I've mentioned before, the house my parents are renting is HUGE (pictured below) and I love it. One night mom and I got some juicing done. It was her first time that she was able to use the juicer that I got her from Minneapolis. She was proud! I spent some time with my forever friend, Rebekah Hofer. We met up a few times- watching Food Inc, catching up on life, taking walks with Buddy, and going out for coffee. I had my first sleepover with her since we were probably seniors in high school! What fun.
Beautiful 3- story house!
A Huron treasure I've seen all to often already...
Apple, carrot and orange! Yum!
15 years old, and still as beautiful as ever. (Well, sassy as ever too)
Steffen tells me that the work is getting easier for him, which is great! That first week was pretty darn rough on his body. Reed and him mostly spent time putting up barbed wire fencing, picking rock, and helping dad put together some wooden fence thing (ha, I can't remember what the technical term is called). He has been losing a lot of weight and putting on some muscle as well. A sight for sore eyes! Of course, we still miss each other like crazy when we are apart, but as we are now on the back side of helping dad, we both know the time will fly by.
Two weeks ago Steffen and I got to spend a day out adventuring around the Black Hills area for a day. We jumped in Reed's jeep (which he so graciously let us borrow) and took off early in the morning. I won't spend much time explaining because the pictures tell such a better story!
Wild Burrows! Steffen thought this one looked like Eeyore, so he tried to look like Eeyore too.
Pronghorn, commonly mistaken by Antelope according to the park. Dad says 'that's bull.'
I think this is a young buck, based on his rack... but he was so unafraid of us!
This big guy was the closest we got to the buffalo
Rushmore:
Stopped in Hill City, which was super tourist-y, but fun to get up and walk around. Steffen got a hair cut.
We took needles highway on the way home, which was a whole lot of fun!
Reed's 18th birthday was on June 25th. We all headed to the local bowling ally for some cosmic bowling. I guess it was dad's first time bowling since he was in high school, and mom's first time for decades. Needless to say, we had a great time, and had the entire place to ourselves.
Speed skating?
Reed and Sandra
Steffen's birthday gift for Reed:
Fast forward to this week.
Mom, Luke, Buddy and I woke up at 3:50 am and headed out to the hills. Luke met us in Woonsocket to pick up one of dad's trailers full of his tools. Man, I haven't seen a full sunrise for a long, long time. Stunning. It just so happened to be that the horses are also at the same farm that the trailer was being stored at. As soon as we pulled in, I let Buddy out and we ran over to greet the four beauties. Man! They are looking great! They have 80 acres to roam on, which is considerably more than what they've had in the past, so I think they've really been enjoying that. It was so wonderful to see them, but I have to wonder- does Ginger remember me? After all those years of training and riding, I sure hope she does. I can't wait for the day when Rebekah and I get on their backs and take a long ride down gravel roads.
The ride over with Luke was great and went fairly fast. It was refreshing to catch up with him, and to learn of his recent desire to pack up and do some traveling. He has such an adventurous spirit, which I feel is a part of our blood for all us Beldin kids.
We took him out to the land once we arrived in Hot Springs. Dad had that sparkle in his eye when he was giving Luke the 'tour'. It amazes me how similar Dad, Reed, and Luke are in their demeanor.
Reed brought his gun
One of my favs...
Another favorite:
We went out to see the stars at the property one night.... so beautiful!
Luke, Steffen, and I spent July 3rd at a nearby beach that wrapped around Lake Angostura. It was a great day to be lakeside, seeing as it was in the 90's..... but of course, we weren't the first ones to have the idea. In fact, there was hundreds of people at this beach! It was so crazy! I told Luke that I felt like I was in a movie...overly-tan girls with their boobs hardly hanging in their bikinis, every guy with at least one tattoo on his shoulder and a beer in hand, boats and jet skis lining the shore, sand volleyball for endless hours, and of course, country music blaring. The beer shack people even told Luke that at least one person a year dies on the 4th of July at Lake Angostura! (Can't imagine why, huh?) Note to self: not a kid-friendly beach. But, needless to say, we had a whole lot of fun.
I have been able to have a whole lot of fun out here...normally soaking up the rays for a part of the day, with book in hand. Also, it has been fun to see how different RV life is compared to the norm. For instance, drying clothes. ha.
Speaking of RV life, I'll leave you with this last picture, which represents the calm before the storm. By storm, I mean finding out the RV sewage was backing up into the room. True story.
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