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Baptismal Anniversary, and More
A toothless and fairly immobile Kinley Nicole was baptized a little over a year ago. Now she's mangling corn on the cob and walking everywhere. Kinley's brother, Bennett, recently completed pre-school and will be in pre-K next fall. Aaron, Michelle and family have moved from Morrison to Conifer Colorado.
Our Illinois family will be visiting Colorado soon. We can hardly wait to see Liam, who recently completed Pre-K and Madison who finished First grade. Cicadas have made their presence known in Illinois. Find out more about the Northern Illinois brood (cicadas brood XIII) here. Christine and Peter have some big hiking plans while they're in Colorado.
Ashley and Aaron also have big hiking/climbing plans this summer, in Peru. Getting acclimated to elevations around 20K is one of the challenges in this month of June.
This month is also the the one year anniversary of this relaunched Rasmussen Reporter website. Below are listings of previous month publications.
The Lone RANGER
A two year old rescue husky, with a mini-mask around his eyes, joined our family about a year ago. He coincidentally was from Texas, not an ideal climate for Siberians, yet good for rangers.
Early on Ranger was a bit rambunctious. However, after we received training (at Leisure Ranch with Michelle Abel), his temperament mellowed a bit. It's still a hold on tight to the leash experience around woodland and mountain creatures of all types. He just wants to play.
Life finds a way - It's amazing every spring
End of Winter
End of Winter
End of Winter
A Hot Wing Maple tree in our backyard suffered a major trunk fracture during an end of winter snow storm. The weight of the snow bent the broken trunk over, more than 90 degrees so that it was resting on our fence.
It was tempting to just cut the tree down. But with some lifting, ring clamps and bolts we were able to upright the bent portion of the trunk and attach it to what remained of the upright stock. There wasn't great hope for recovery, but the 'cutting down' option always exists.
End of Spring
End of Winter
End of Winter
Here's our Hot Wing in early June. It did leaf out a little behind a sister tree, in the backyard, but it leafed out. The persistence of life after such severe injury is just amazing.
Don't know what the longer term future will be for this Maple tree. Shorter term we've got to find a better means of support than the ring clamps. Longer term it will remind us that often when we think we have something to complain about, it is likely pretty trivial.