Tom Taylor, july 31, 2011

i love you b.i.l.

forever and every day,

xo

S.i.l.

san fran fun with my sistah

the girls with Kris at coffee in boise, before we take off

we went to see jenn and fraunie in san francisco, we had a blast

 at jenn's house

out for drinks in the mission

camping in mccall

i drove pistol, scott, and stewie up to mccall to escape the heat.

 with brett at the music festival in roseberry

 scott and cari at the festival

 on the whaler

 

'nuff said

accupuncture and reno shakers

henry has accupuncture to help his back and leg

 
gary and jenn visited from reno. i made them reno-esque salt and pepper shakers for a house-warming present

patriotism in Idaho City

traditionally over the holiday, an artist friend, dirk, has a campout at his property in idaho city. randy, kaden and i trekked up there with our trailers to escape the heat and help him with his burningman art installation, called 'chroma'.

 the boys and i settled in and levelled

 dirk's foundry, one of 2 shops he has for his amazing metal works 


pat packs sand for molding plates

randy and kaden's friend cole has a place in garden valley, we hopped over the hill to spend a day hanging out at the ranch and swimming in the river. this house was bought out of a sears and robuck catalog, it has been in cole's family since 1906. his family owned the whole valley, then split it between their 16 children. Cole is the last to keep any of it.

cole breaks horses and such, i'm not sure why he has these two calves, they were very sweet (and skinny)

 the boys down at the river

back at dirk's, ian and heather whip up maple sausage with portabello soft tacos 

 

in the 2nd studio, we have our own d.j. to keep us motivated

 beer works just as well

 randy and dirk work on a section of chroma

filling the hot tub

spontaneous paving

i woke up the other morning and went out to water my plants, as usual. i looked at my messy back yard where i had an unused firepit, volunteer mint, a scraggly aspen, a diseased rose bush, and a gaggle of lavender. foooey i said, take it out, take it all out. so i dug it all out, and started digging a patio. gabe wanted to help, he's bored and out of projects, so off we went.

leveling and digging and digging some more

this is as far as i've gotten so far, working after hours from 7-10pm. it goes slower than one might imagine, 600 pavers, a mallet, and a whole lotta heat. thank goodness for the smokejumper parachute providing shade.

snacks for toiling, yum!