A little bit of this and a little bit of that in pictures

A Rufus hummingbird (orange) with the others.

Squirrel-proof bird feeder?!?!

The turkeys are two months old now and getting big! They are afraid of me and run as far away as they can get.

The ducks have been turned out, see them on the left in the background? Salty, the old horse, is eating their food. When he saw me walking toward the duck food, he came running to protect it just in case I was going to eat some.

The baby horse lets me pet her. I call her Daisy but that's not necessarily her name. She's not my horse.

Paul and I hiked up above the ranch. The horses could hear us talking and were watching us.

Milissa creatively promotes the See N Save Thrift store and the Teton Valley Hospital Foundation during the annual Victor 4th of July parade.

This Mastiff was incredibly patient.

My float. Teton Valley Adventures snowmobile business. The dune buggy is towing a 1971 Arctic Cat!

I'm a dork.

Paul and I ran from the South Fork of Horseshoe to Corral Creek via a different route yesterday. It was beautiful but the trail was CRAP. Above, Paul is hiking up the last stretch of decent trail for 11 miles.

Some of the crap trail. Steep as anything and super rocky with "baby heads". Luckily, there was no blood shed during this run.

Inspiration!

Thanks to Heather, here's some interesting and inspriational reading.

VFF completes its mission to raise awareness for rare diseases! Excellent account of their ride from Pittsburg to Washington DC. Fun narration and excellent pictures. Check it out. Well done Heather!

A 3,000-Mile Triumph, Spurred on by Diabetes: A team of eight people with Type I Diabetes won the Race Across America! “Despite mechanical problems, the team members, started in Oceanside, Calif., and rolled into Annapolis, Md., a distance of 3,021 miles, in five days, nine hours and five minutes. Their average speed was 23.41 miles per hour — 0.17 better than the winner last year, a Norwegian cycling team made up of professionals.”

Article from the NYT about the Big Horn 100.

Doctor rescued from Antarctica in 1999 dies at 57. "I believe you're always much better off knowing what the real truth is. I think it's only then that you can come to grips with your illness, or with any difficult situation. Some people call this process 'mourning.' I prefer to call it tiring of the fear and the depression and the denial, and the fake optimism and the irritation of it all -- and just saying, 'Hey, I'm tired of feeling bad about this. Now I go on.' "

You know you're chronically ill when you...

...have a pajama collection.

...call the pharmacist and she recognizes your voice before you tell her what it is.

...are excited that Zofran has gone generic.

...are psyched to get a computer table tray for sitting in bed as a gift.

...find out that you can order a three month supply of meds online and you think it's great.

...share and discuss journal articles with your doctor.

...have an inbox full of emails all from people with your disease or related to your disease.

...get updates from MedScape.

...set up your pills a month ahead of time in pill holders.

...have pill stashes in your car, purse, backpack, etc.

Feel free to add your own! :)