My Instagram Life

Good morning!

I was flipping through the photos on my phone this morning in search of one in particular, and I was reminded again what an effective journaling tool a cell phone is. No one ever need pick up a pen and paper again; simply snap a couple of photos with your phone every day and you have the complete history of your life recorded.

Until you lose your phone. And then the history of your life is gone with the wind.

Here’s a little collection of my Instagram and cell phone photos over the past few weeks.

 

This is ol Charlie, toasty and warm on the sofa.

Nope. Not the least bit spoiled.

Not my dogs.

 

This is my elementary school diary, which my sister Betsy brought to me a few weeks ago when she came to visit. There are two things I need to say about this photo:

1) There are pages and pages and pages of “Brett.” I find this very disturbing.
and
2) Who’s Brett?

Just asking.

 

This is a selfie my daughter took using my phone, which is always existentially confusing.

 

And speaking of existentially confusing…I have absolutely zero knowledge of this.

When?

Who?

Why?

It’s probably best if I don’t know.

 

This is a shot I took of the frigid, frozen prairie after the ice storm in December.

 

This is our back patio overlooking the pond. Brrrrrrrr!

 

This is what the grass on the ranch looked like in the days following the storm.

The cattle grew a little tired of munching on popsicles all day.

 

These were the crazy crystal parsnips that suddenly grew off our roof.

Crazytown!

And they didn’t taste all that much like parsnips. For one thing, they didn’t hold up well at all during the cooking process.

 

Charlie and I drove around a lot during the ice storm, just to sure all the newborn calves were okay.

 

And that, of course, exhausted him…so then he’d take a seventeen hour nap.

Or two.

 

And then, before we knew it, it was Christmas! These are my four children on Christmas Eve, just before they nestled all snug in their beds.

My, how they’ve grown!

 

After the ice thawed, there seemed to be deer everywhere around our house, and I tried unsuccessfully about four thousand times to snap a cell phone photo of them before they ran off. This was the closest I came.

On the ranch, we can drive and take photos at the same time. Ain’t nothing to run into!

Except fence.

Not that I have ever, ever done that.

 

Okay, so maybe I have done that. But it was a long, long time ago and I wasn’t taking photos at the time. And it wasn’t my fault! It was a solar flare or something.

But that’s another story for another time.

 

This is a cell phone photo of work being done inside The Building.

We’re making progress!

But oh…the decisions. They’re everywhere.

Ouch. My brain.

 

This is the sushi that my BFF Hyacinth brought me for my birthday last week.

Greater love hath no man than this: that she would bring sushi to a friend.

 

This is a photo my younger daughter shot of the kitchen at the Lodge. We’ve been shooting new shows over the past week and have done lots of fun things with the kids, my brother Mike, the cows, the horses, the dogs, Marlboro Man, my father-in-law, etc.

It’s been fun so far! I’ll be sure to take plenty of photos of the rest of the shoot this week.

(New shows start this Saturday. Yahoo yippety!)

 

This is a photo of one of the cameramen. They keep getting younger and younger!

Happy Monday, everyone.

Hope you had a wonderful weekend!

Love,
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