The Owl is Back!

No nest and only one but we were able to get some pictures of our great horned owl. (And a couple other cool pictures I took down at the other end of the hatchery.

More Pictures

I love the spring weather!  Quent and I went back out to the Box Elder Bird Refuge yesterday and took a bunch more pictures.  The tulips are from our front yard!

Pictures around Mantua

After the snow flurries fell and the sun came back out, Quent and I went for a drive around Mantua.  Mainly to check out the campground for our camping trip later this month, which by the way still has plenty of spring run off running through.  Here are a couple of the pictures I took.  The one of the hatchery building has the new vents they put in it just a couple weeks ago.

PS....I was wrong

So just after I finished the blog about how great may was with beautiful flowers, sun shining, yard work and a clean car, this massive dark cloud appears out of nowhere and the temperature drops...it's snowing on my tulips! Not sticking, just snowing.

April Showers Bring May Flowers....

Or so we hope!  April brought record rainfall to the state of Utah this year and much cooler temperatures than normal.  We're excited that on the first day of May that our tulips are blooming, although they were bit with a hard frost the past two nights, they seem to be bouncing back!  Quent decided that he wanted to put a border around the flower beds so we went to both Lowe's and Home Depot yesterday and decided on the landscape rock that was on sale.  We managed to get it all laid out around the house but there is still much work to be done on the flower beds.  Quent managed to get the lawn mowed although it was still wet from the rain and snow we received earlier in the week.

We are hoping for a week or two of dry weather so the camp ground across town dries out enough for the annual camping trip over Memorial Day!

PS....Can you believe it's May 1st already? Where has this year gone?

Spring Break!

Friday was the first day of my spring break, Quent had to work the weekend so I headed down to Salt Lake for a couple of days.  I saw some friends, tended my niece and nephew and even made a trip to Hogle Zoo. My brother added keyless entry to my car (thanks Joe) while Morgan and TJ played pretend fairy tale land with Aunt Cindy.

We had Quent's mom up on Easter Sunday for dinner, Quent took her out to the bird refuge prior to dinner, they had a great time looking for birds and other animals.  Here are a few pictures from the weekend. 

Hawks

We have a pair of hawks and two pairs of blue herons nesting around the hatchery.  The hawks sit on the far fence post down by the bond every morning waiting for the guys to throw out the dead fish.  Today I went down to get some pictures.

Baby Animal Days

Last weekend we were going to take all the nieces and nephews to baby animal days.  Well as luck would have it the weather didn't agree with our plan.  After days of rain and a few inches of snow we decided that it would be too cold and wet to go to Logan.  (As noted in a previous post we bought a car instead). 

This weekend the weather was a little warmer, but not quite dry.  It rained Friday night and then on and off all day Saturday, but we braved the elements and drove up to Logan to check out the baby animals.  Unfortunately Joy and the kids weren't able to make it due to a previously scheduled Easter egg hunt. Nicole, my mom and Quent took Patrick and Alyssa to the farm.  We saw baby ducks, chicks, cows, pigs, lambs, goats, bunnies, turtles, we road on the train and the kids went on a pony ride.

Even though it rained on and off throughout the day we had a great time!

Photo Blog Caught Up

With bad weather and working full-time the photo blog has taken a back seat as of late.  I finally went though the pictures I've taken the last couple of weeks and caught up my 365 photo challenge.  Click here to see the pictures.