Weekend with a Gnome

We had a joint Birthday party for Richard, Taryn & myself, but since the Gnome didn't get any ice cream cake Richard found him with his face buried in it.......Bad Gnome......

Mmmmmmm this cake is soooo good, teach them not to give me any ....

NOOOOOO don't let that dog lick my face clean..help me .....My Lady HELP......

Richard and Taryn opening their gift cards from McDonalds

Hard to see the numbers of Course the Gnome put the one backwards but the numbers you can't see is a 17 for Taryn

Beautiful Donna with Rory and she is expecting again, this time we are all wishing for a girl..due in November.

Taryn with the Gnome

Mommy and Sonny with Jake the Dog

oh smile........

The 3 birthday people

Uncle Ted making Rory laugh

Grams and Tate

Popa and Tate

Rory, Papa, Tate and Grams, you sure can tell Rory and Tate are cousins.

Four of the 5 grandchildren

Rory & Papa

Tate and Ric being funny

Ric and Tate hanging around

Father and Son

(Ted & Leon)

Auntie being supervisor, if all else fails read the directions, I think Ric is totally ignoring her though.

Even the Gnome has to put his 2 cents in....

Hmmmmm no one is around, can I steal a piece?

They need the exercise..not me...no one gave me any cake......

Ha...... they only think I will do this.....

Go sister go!

My Lady needs this machine to tone up her.....never mind I better be good.

Hmmmm I wonder if I can cut this grass...

Oh no I've fallen.....

Help me My Lady...

Helpppppp

Flowers... I think this is my garden....

Oh a cold one...ahhhh that tastes so good....

Oh Oh....it's empty and the world is upside down.....

Car ride, the sun roof down, what a glorious day it is...

Oh my Lady what the Blazes are these things, he is sniffing my behind... help me My Lady

Hanging out with the boys.....

Oh no....... I've fallen in the feed barrel

Auntie Debi and Rick mixing up the dirt for the gardens

working away in the flower beds, we have to get them all planted....

oh such pretty flowers

I get to ride around in the wheel barrel while they do all the work...

Oh what a nice job the humans have done...















The Little Britches Parade in High River Alberta...

Just Clowning around......Oh I am so funny....

My friend Sherk and his pony were also in the parade...

Don't cha think I'm a little blurry....come on! its my profile you

are wreaking here It's all about me

Okay I'm in the picture My Lady..now bring me back.....

Can you believe she did this? My Lady walked up to this RCMP and asked him to hold me...so I could get my picture taken...I am sooooo Humiulatied.....look how he is holding me....














Stay tuned for my trip to Vulcan.... Yep went and seen the Star Ship Enterprise..... Have a good week..

The End of our Journey

Well I got me a new job. I figured I was just as qualified as the next Gnome.
This was a shirt given to my man from his friends Jan and Wayne when they went on their trip.


Well this is our last day on the road, so I thought I would get into some mischief while my owners were loading the car. I found this saddle horse and it even had a real saddle on it. No I did not play with the rope. It was all like that when I sat down.

Look at this lovely piano, I tried to open it so I could play some merry music but the dam thing was locked.

Sorry no tunes today

Just Chilling

Well my lady asked my man to take a picture of us in front of the fireplace, wow he really got this picture lopsided didn't he.

Peek a boo can you see me, I want food.....

Me and my Lady in front of the motel in Billings Montana. Look at all the rocks, neat eh!

OH MAN - back into my seat I go. I was free for a while though

My Lady found this covered wagon when we stopped for lunch. She told my man that we had to take a picture.

There was no horses, what a rip

Me on the water barrel

Me and My Lady posing in front of the wagon...

It's all about me....right.

Windmills and the mountains with snow on the top of them

Yuck!!!

We waited 2 hours at the boarder, my first trip to Canada, I hope I can get in I don't have a pass port...

Wow these Canadian animals are really big

Can you see me?

Look closely down by his toes..

My Lady is standing guard making sure I don't get stepped on...

Motorcycle shopping, can't find the clothes to fit me though...

Yep it is me...

a rainy day & What is a Jackalope?

Most of today was rainy and overcast. We traveled to Billings Montana from
Cheyenne Wyoming. It was a long ride through Wyoming as there was nothing to see...but we did stop in Douglas so our Gnome could meet a Jackalope...


I noticed a lot of these outlines on the rocks. As you get closer you can see that they are wood cutouts, fun to see from a distance.

Meet a Western Jackalope....

The story goes....the first white man to see this singular fauna specimen was a trapper name George McLean in 1829. When he told of it later he was promptly denouced as a liar. An odd trait of the Jackalope is its ability to imitate the human voice. Cowboys singing to their herds at night have been startled to hear their lonesome melodies repeated faithfully from some nearby hillside. the phantom echo comes from the throat of some Jackalope. They sing only on dark nights before a thunderstorm. Stories that they sometimes get together and sing in chorus are discounted by those who know them best. Much like the stories of Sasquatch sightings, legends of the ever elusive Jackalope continue to haunt Western lore even in modern times. The young lady who was working at the gas startion told us her granddaddy told her about these strange bunnies and she believed for a long time....

Our little Gnome almost disappeared under neath the bunnie

Douglas Wyoming, Gnome reads the plaque

See it is a bunnie with antlers

on the hills leaving town

Yep I've been there

Just add this name to my list....

Hontestly I am not looking

My hubby was complaining because to this point in our trip he had not seen a buffalo, allegator or snake on the road. The next thing I know he has stopped the car and is backing up. Sure enough there is a snake on the road. So he took a couple of pics then turned around so I could take one. He didn't know if it was alive or not. When we turned around and I was taking this pic (from the safety of the car out the window) I noticed that his tongue was moving. It had a rattler at the end of his tail and he was sunning himself in the middle of the road.

Yep he is alive

When I went to get out of the car the reciepts blew across the dash and out the window. I chased them across the parking lot. We were in the National Park and you don't litter.

Now I guess you are wondering what this is..

we were driving along yesterday and it was sunny and hot (we had to run the air) anyway I noticed these sparkles on the ceiling of the car..it took a little while to figure out what or where they were coming from...can you guess?

Just swinging around I had the Gnome in my arms in a plastic bag....