May 6th to 7th - 100 Mile House

May 6th - Sun - 100 Mile
Marg received a phone call yesterday asking if she would judge sheep and grade scorecards at a 4-H judging rally today. And, by the way, did she know of someone else to help her? Guess who her helper was? Marg (will lots of assistance from me!) had to judge/rank four market lambs with reasons for her ranking. Then groups of 4-H kids had to do the same thing and then we had to grade their scorecards. There were other “stations” for kids to judge - horses, cattle, chickens, rabbits, pigs and floral arrangements. They had 20 minutes at each station. It was an interesting experience. We arrived there just after 9 am and were done shortly after 1 pm.
Terry spent some time hunting ground squirrels and marmots while we were gone - thinned out the population some. Later in the afternoon we replaced a broken post at a gate, cleaned up some areas in the yard and finally planted some irises.

May 7th - Mon - 100 Mile
Did some more cleaning in the yard this morning. Last fall a tree broke off and fell on the roof of the chicken house and made several large holes in the aluminum roof. So we (mainly Terry) replaced 3 sections of aluminum. After lunch Marg, Terry & I went to town for some shopping and errands. We had started dinner in the crockpot so Marg & I had time before dinner to transplant some tomato plants into pots in the greenhouse.
Terry purchased a Milepost book and picked up a handful of brochures in preparation for a trip to Alaska. We figure since we are already a ways north in B.C. that we might as well continue on to Alaska. We hope to leave here next week but we want to wait for new license tabs for the truck - ours expire on June 21st.