Well I no longer smell and look like a Prairie Dog..... I do have enough skeeter bites--- I considered an epi-pen!  They almost ate me alive. 
The wild flowers were incredible. This is from a Cactus while I was hiking.


 It is amazing how as you get older you literally stop and see the little things that you passed by as a child.  (and you need to catch your breath)
 Kansas was a real surprise to me.  When I was younger I just recall how boring and flat it was.  Today I looked out over the fields and the beautiful old barns, farms and windmills and had a new appreciation of where a good bit of our food is grown.  Everyone in Kansas was very nice and helpful!
The kids had a blast with their cousins fishing in the river, Geocaching, playing tag, riding 4-wheelers, tie dying t-shirts, hiking, canoeing, swimming at the pool, playing at the playground, running through sprinklers and just being kids!
I had the opportunity to see loads of old friends and drink way to much wine as we chatted about old times!  I was amazed at how much some of us change and others so little.
One of my favorite moments was hiking for an entire day.  When I say a whole day I mean the "whole day"!!  I hiked on a private ranch where we located but did not climb into a cave in the side of the mountain that if you crawl into drops down 60 feet into a underground river!  I was in awe.  The mountain we climbed started to look like we could not scale to the top when I discovered a small crevice with light shining in.  We climbed into the crevice as it widened to give us a path to the very top of the mountain.  I can't explain how wonderful I felt when I got to the top and looked over the mountains and land!!!  Of course coming down I could not resist mooing at a few cows which probably traumatized them        This brings me to my new "want"......
A COW, I know I know I barely got by with the chickens.  My thinking was keeping the cow at my Dad's then butchering it... this would give me grassfed organic beef, much cheaper then buying in the store and raised with love.  I call John ------it pretty much went like this.
John:  Hello?
Me:  Hey hon whatcha doin?
John: blah blah blah
Me: Hey so you think I can have a cow?
John: silence
Me:  You know uhhhhh like as in uhh a cow....
John: more silence
Me:  There only 500-600 dollars for a WHOLE cow!!!  Think of the savings...
John: NO
Me No??? come on why not
John: NO
Me: sigh thinking up ways to buy a cow...

In Colorado they have these signs posted in many places which kinda freaks me out when I saw a hitchhiker.
It says Attention Correction Facility DO NOT PICK UP HITCHHIKERS..  Uhhh ok got cha

Did I mention I want a cow??
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