Sarah & Shelby: August 2009

8.28.2009

8.20.2009

CODYS SUMMER VACATION is over. Last weekend we packed his things and drove up to Fort Collins so that he could start on his third year Vet School at CSU. We left Saturday and I flew back on Monday.
We took a 5 hour detour and got into Fort Collins 15 hours after starting our journey. We went Snowflake-Gallup-Durango-Silverton-Montrose-Gunnison-Salida-Leadville-Denver-Fort Collins. I am so glad I went, it was amazing!

THE DRIVE

JUST OUTSIDE MONARCH

CLIFF FACE OUTSIDE Ouray, nicknamed the Switzerland of America. So true, Ouray sits snugly tucked into Alp like mountains.

NEAR MONTROSE

EISENHOWER TUNNEL

CODYS LIFE

WHERE HE "LIVES"

A RUMENFISTULA - THIS spoiled famous little cow has on its side what is called a rumenfistula. This hole allows students to reach in and feel the stomach of a cow, the unique to bovine part that allows the fermentation of feed.

WYOMING

THE MOST UNCLOSTRAPHOBIC I have ever felt in my life. Something invisible and free identifying with my insides; every microscopic crevise leaving no space untouched. Every excuse to stay longer. Every blade of golden grass needed to fit into my luggage lasting years until my permenant return. When I left Wyoming I left my home.

THE STREETS OF Cheyenne

THE CAPITOL

AN OBSESSION

AND BACK

FLYING OVER THE Rocky Mountains (BUMPY!!!)

8.13.2009

EPISTAXIS

TODAY SHELBY HAD a bloody nose for the 4th time in 24 hours. In this picture she had tried to wipe it herself before I could pull the truck over. She is also a little ticked that I am taking the time to snap a picture. A little bacitracin up the nostril is all it needed but DANG, it was a freaky day for Willy and her mamma.

NEW GELDING

CODY DID A castration at his family's ranch that Shelby and I had a chance to watch. He did a beautiful job as always. Some of these pictures are fairly graphic but for all the members of PETA out there, this was a surgical procedure done humanely with anesthetic, using sterile technique, and much care. Dallas is a happy, very unaware yearling.

DRUGS

PREP

EMASCULATORS

I'M SURE YOU can guess

EXTRACTING THE WOLF teeth while he's out (or, killing two birds with one stone)

EXCUSE THE FAR off look on my face but I really wanted a picture of us up.

JULY LOOKED LIKE THIS

SHELBY SHOCKED US all in her astronaut suit and my old Stetson by proclaiming without any help from us that she was a "Space Cowboy"! We all stopped and died laughing!