In Honor of Labor Day 2010

Working on Labor Day? I hope not! Altough it sould really be called “Day Off Day” or “We Appreciate Your Labor Day.”

In honor of such a day, we hereby present a remembrance of a Labor Day past.

http://www.homestarrunner.com/laborday.html

No one does it better than Home Star.

When you get back to work, if you feel like this, consider a change:

I’ve been listening to a fantastic audio book that is all about making more of our time and cutting back. I’ll highlight it in our year-in-review.

But in the mean time, you may enjoy another Wendy’s clip steeped deeply in philosophical meaning:

Life is too short to spend it kicking trees.

On a different note, let’s hope your weekend didn’t end like this:

But if you need something to help you feel that things are coming together in the world, you might like this:

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Horseback Riding through the Buffalo in Yellowstone

A once in a lifetime opportunity, we rode horseback through Yellowstone park.  We spent almost 8 hours on horseback, and rode along side the buffalo.  We went with family who owned the horses and go into the park quite often.

We got up at 3:30am and drove about 2 hours to Yellowstone, and then once in the park, we drove 2 hours to get to our spot to start the ride.

Right from the start, we were in the buffalo.  We walked right through the middle of where they were.  The buffalo didn’t care.

Angie had an English riding helmet.  Our experienced riders called them “lids.”

The buffalo would roll on the ground there were all sorts of these wallows that were pretty well worn.

We got to see geysers/steam pots that 99% of park visitors never see.

We went up and down quite a few hills.  For me, it was hardest on the muscles coming down the hills.  For Angie, the hardest was going up the hills.  However, throughout the ride, the toughest part on the muscles were on our knees trying to keep the stirrups right.

We rode for miles and miles through the back country of Yellowstone.

It was interesting that the horses did not want to cross even tiny streams of water.  Mine to a leap into the air and over a stream.  That was crazy!  By the end, I think I learned how to help the horse step into the small streams first and then walk through.  It felt like after the first big jump, that the horse wanted to jump more.

Just over the next hill.  The horses would want to run up the hill, so we had to hold them back a little.  Angie was on a Tennessee walker which walk a little more smoothly than other horses.

We stopped at a beautiful place for lunch.  The grass was very soft.  At lunch, we were pretty sore already.  My legs were already so tired and trembling from being exercised in a new way.

The river above got a little deap that we crossed.

The rivers were set down in the ground a bit so it was quite a dip down to get in and usually a little jump to get out.

That buffalo above wasn’t too happy about us crossing right there.  Perhaps he wanted to go first.

We had a great time, and then had 4 hours to get back to where we were staying

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Labor Day 2007

Labor Day 2007 We had a great time on Labor Day. We visited the Bingham Copper Mine. The mine is as big as ever. Driving up to the mine, we saw one of the giant dump trucks drop crushed rock over the back of the mine pit. I’ve always wanted to see that. Autumn got some very shiny rocks. We later played in the pool. To see our most recent pictures, click here. To see our most recent videos, click here.

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