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Back from North Dakota...got pictures!!

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Good evening, to my ranchers net family!! Hope you all had a wonderful fathers' day weekend!!! I know we did...bittersweet...got to spend the weekend with the dad and grandmother and with demodriver on her 17th birthday!! Couldn't get much better!! Thought I'd share a few pix with you of our trip!! Hope you enjoy!!! :D :D
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the morning we left as the sun was just rising....who is up at this time of day, anyway!!! :wink:
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the dad with the grandkids...demodriver, flint and the riley/ralphie!!
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cowboyup, gramma and pappy at the little kitchen table....probably swapping stories of the past!!!!
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demodriver and some ugly, old broad on the way to taking demodriver out for a special lunch for her 17th birthday!!!
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toby keith called and wants his hat back, demodriver!! :lol: :lol:
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on the way home, dropped down to fort buford and sent the kids on some "touristy/sight-seeing" fun......forgot about those darned pesky north dakota skeeters, though....all of were about eaten alive!! :shock:


Have lots more pictures, but it is getting late and this danged old dial-up takes forever to get the pix off the camera and onto photobucket, so will try more later!! Thank you all for your well wishes and heartfelt prayers!![/img]
 
Thanks for the pics, one thing about time away from the ranch is that it is always nice to get back home again too! I'm glad you had a safe trip. Kids look happy on all the pics so it must have been a good one.
 
To me, who doesn't know your father, ranchwife, I thought he looked good! How is he feeling?

I'm happy you got to go as a family to visit him. For many years
I travelled at least 500 miles to see my dad. I did it EVERY Father's
Day. And you know what? I wish I had to travel 500 miles this
year to see him, but of course, he has passed away. My first Father's
Day as an orphan...and even at my age, that's how I feel sometimes.
But I'm glad I had him long as I did.

I posted somewhere else that I tried to find you. Did you read that?
 
What I want to know, is how did Cowboyup manage to be off the ranch for four whole days and not go into withdrawals of get the shakes or something. :lol:
 
Faster horses said:
To me, who doesn't know your father, ranchwife, I thought he looked good! How is he feeling?

I'm happy you got to go as a family to visit him. For many years
I travelled at least 500 miles to see my dad. I did it EVERY Father's
Day. And you know what? I wish I had to travel 500 miles this
year to see him, but of course, he has passed away. My first Father's
Day as an orphan...and even at my age, that's how I feel sometimes.
But I'm glad I had him long as I did.

I posted somewhere else that I tried to find you. Did you read that?
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When dad was in the hospital in Minot, his pulmonologist told him that the only way for him to live another year was to get on the list for lung transplant!!! Pretty extreme, but I can understand his logic...tests show that his left lung is completely worthless...no air movement whatsoever!! The hardest part was watching him struggle for each and every breath!! He is unable to leave the house except for short trips to see his doctor because even the exertion of walking to and from the car is almost too much for him!! I think that it is gramma's good/old-fashioned/norwegian/homecooking that is keeping him still going!! Have already decided to go back this fall or around Christmas....granted he is still here!! Each bout of pneumonia just gets worse and worse for him to recover from and he is "getting real tired of being sick so much".....his eyes told me volumes....he is ready!! :cry:
Pappy and gramma live in a tiny town about 25-30 miles from Williston called Tioga..pretty little town of about 1000 folks...lots of trees and super-friendly folks!! Can definitely understand why dad calls this town "home"!!
 
sw said:
What I want to know, is how did Cowboyup manage to be off the ranch for four whole days and not go into withdrawals of get the shakes or something. :lol:
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funny you should mention that, sw!! I could not help but to notice how his right foot seemed to get heavier and heavier and the truck went faster and faster after we got past Billings and the mountains came into sight!!
:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: I was amazed at how well he handled being away.....as soon as we got within sight of the ranch, though, I noticed a change in him....he slowed down, stared out into the fields of cows and hay, almost ran off the road watching his big pivot water the fields and was up at the crack of dawn this morning for work!! You can take the rancher off the ranch, but you can't the ranch outta the rancher!!! :wink:
 
Thx for the pictures Ranchwife,I'm happy you had a great weekend with dad and family.Your dad did look good in picture,probably cause his girl was visiting :-)
 
Now I see where DemoDriver gets her good looks from.......must be mom! Wow, what a resemblance in the two of you! Gorgeous women!!! :nod:

Your dad doesn't look so bad to me, but then, I never saw him healthy, either. Hope you all can make it back to see them soon. Family is the most important thing there is. :nod:

Love that last pic.........tell CowboyUp to quit tryin to hold DemoDriver down!!!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol:

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I can't help but notice............your dad seems to have a smile on his face.
Your trip had to be priceless.

Happy Health to all.
 
sw said:
What I want to know, is how did Cowboyup manage to be off the ranch for four whole days and not go into withdrawals of get the shakes or something. :lol:
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It was tough sw. Hey did you know that east of Sydney they don't build fences? Just farm'r right up to the blacktop, about right there I got the shakes lasted clear into the next day when I found White Earth Canyon east of Tioga. Now that is a beautiful place and they had a rodeo going on which the boys and I just had to attend. No sooner than we got out of the truck and I had some friends from here that had moved there holler at me and ask me how I ever got lost enough to find that place. That and a few cold ones that I had to smuggle past Granny for the FIL and me helped me survive. :wink: :D :D
 
Faster horses said:
I have a question.

Does that cute little Ralphie ever look THROUGH his glasses? :wink:
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He does....when I remind him to push them up that tiny little dot of a nose he has!!! Course, he "lost" his new spongebob glasses I got him a few months back.....they were more fitted and not nearly as prone to slip down his face.....seems they got lost the very same day that the boys decided to go play in the overflow of one of the irrigation ditches....coincidence???? I don't think so!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
cowboyup, do you get the shakes like I do when you get into that pure farming country? :wink: :lol: I like country without too many fences, but that is not quite what I was thinking of. lol

Ranchwife, I think you dad looks good too, and I hope he feels the same.

Glad you all had a nice trip.
 
passin thru said:
I can't help but notice............your dad seems to have a smile on his face.
Your trip had to be priceless.

Happy Health to all.
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This was one trip I know I will never regret having taken!! Life can be cut way too short and in his 59 years of living, my dad has NEVER taken life for granted!! He simply wants to live out what time he has comfortably and with a smile on his face!! :wink: :wink: :wink:
 

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