UPDATE 30 APRIL 2017

It has been sometime since I updated this blog so thought I had better get it done.  Still doing spring things around here and we are still getting some rain.  Good for the grass growth, but slows a few other things we are doing.  Turned our horses out into the timber and small meadow so they could eat some of the grass down.  Connie has been doing her jumping a couple of times a week.  I went over to Great Falls to Malmstrom AFB with my powder skiing partner General Stovall to give some briefings over there about rescue missions we were on during the Vietnam War.  The helicopter unit there has been renamed the 40th Helicopter Squadron and that is the squadron we flew in back in the day.  They were putting up some displays at the base museum and the General got invited to speak at that function.  Then the squadron wanted some briefings on some Vietnam combat rescue missions so they had that at the base auditorium and invited the whole base.  After that we went over to the squadron area and had some hamburgers.  It was really nice to be around these active duty folks who have been deployed to the middle east a number of times.  Just a great bunch of folks.  I did not take very many pictures there because we were so busy but did get a few.

The valley is starting to really green up.

The first arrowleaf balsam root flowers we have seen.

The 40th's Squadron's lounge area.

General Stovall can still get in his party suit he had as a captain.

The shooting stars are also out now.

The horses heading out the gate.

Comet thinking Connie might have a few oats in her hands, but he just licked the salt off her fingers.

Zeph giving her a kiss on our walk.

The  tree house that Gary's kids played in is still alive and well.