This past weekend was one of my favorite weekends of the year - the annual Volunteer Weekend at Pine Butte Guest Ranch. TNC owns this BEAUTIFUL ranch on the Rocky Mtn Front and we try not to pass up an opportunity to visit. This year we had beautiful weather - although a snowstorm did blow in Saturday afternoon, the rest of the weekend was great. This was Bennett's first time to Pine Butte
and hopefully he will have many more trips there in the future. We ate delicious food (organic and local), went on a killer hike climbing 1500 feet with B in the backpack, saw some wolf tracks, helped clean up the ranch for the summertime guests (Rory helped replace a roof), listened to some great bluegrass music, and had some fun times with my co-workers and their families. Good stuff. While we were hanging out in the
main lodge, Bennett was standing by the coffee table and just decided to let go and stand on his own for about 7 or 8 seconds! He's all "I don't need no stinkin' table to help me stand"! He did it again the next day for a much longer stretch....maybe 12 or 13 seconds?? Anyways, it was pretty cool to see. And it happened at Pine Butte.
