Changes!

Mushroom growing on the stump.
On Tues we received a offer on our house, We weren't thrilled with the terms so we made a counter offer and he accepted it on Friday. We are officially under contract.

Granite Creek

So on Friday we left Yellowstone and went to Granite Creek and it was wonderful, we had the whole campground to ourselves. On Saturday it rained all day and was perfect. We came home on Sunday which was sad and way to soon but it had to be done.

Anyways I'm going to post this and then add some other posts as a lot has been going on.

We have returned!

We had a wonderful trip, with a few exceptions. We had what might be called a minor catastrophe. We had left our deep cast iron skillet in the oven half full of oil. When we arrived at the campground the skillet had left the oven and we had oil every where and I mean everywhere, In the carpet, up the walls, and of course we didn't realize what had happened right away and the dogs walked through it and tracked it everyplace that it wasn't. I cleaned it up as best I could and then threw the rugs over what I couldn't as I was determined for it not to ruin our trip.

Yellowstone was wonderful as always. We had near perfect weather with warm days and cool nights.

We had 2 adventures that we had never done before.

The first being Blacktail ridge road which is a 6 mile one way dirt road, kinda off the beaten path. The terrain is grassy hills, then lots of forested areas. I think this is what Yellowstone looked like before the fires of 88. Its incredibly beautiful, and you never know what you will find. We stopped to walk the dogs next to a small hill, and walked up to the top only to find a huge bull buffalo on the other side, needless to say we hurried right back to the truck.

At the end of the road we were waved down by a SUV full of 8 people it turns out to be 2 Canadians, 2 french Canadians, and 4 German tourist. They had a flat tire on there rental vehicle and couldn't find the jack, lug wrench, etc in order to change the tire and they were so surprised that there cell phones didn't work. Mitch got to work helping them change the tire and I visited with the 2 french Canadian ladies who it turns out are sisters married to the 2 Canadian males. They spoke both french, English and German. the 4 Germans 3 females and 1 male spoke no English at all. So you can imagine the conversations we had luckily we were all able to smile and shake our heads when we didn't understand something. The one sister and her husband had retired to Dallas Texas. The other sister and husband still lived in Canada, and well the Germans were here from Germany. They had all flew into Denver and had been all over North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and had just arrived in Yellowstone that day. We ended up spending all most 2 hours with the group and I really enjoyed visiting with them, learning about there hometowns, families, dogs, etc. They when they found out we had been to Yellowstone many times had many questions and we were happy to oblige. When we left there were many thanks, hugs and the Germans even tried to pay us for our time (at least that is what I think they were doing ) It wasn't until we got down the road that I realized that I should of gotten a pic of the group for my blog, but that is the story of my life.

Mountain goats.

Next we got to see the mountain goats. We have never been close enough to get a good look let alone pictures, So that was exciting.

And last but not least we took the grassy lake road which goes from GTNP over to Idaho this is a 46 mile dirt road that is narrow with lots of up and downs and back and Fourths but really scenic. From there you can take the road into the south west corner of the park. This road only goes in a short distance but the waterfalls at the end of the road were well worth the drive over there. besides the fact that I was so curious about this part of the park since reading the J.C. Box book that was set in this part of the park. This part of the park has no entrance gate its kinda like stepping back in Yellowstone time. The buildings, and roads haven't been updated. The road is so narrow built more for skinny cars not our big old wide truck luckily we didn't run into any place where we couldn't get by.

We left Yellowstone on Friday and headed to Granite Creek but since this is so long now I will save the rest of the trip for my next post.

Yellowstone!

Well we are off for a few days, and yes were headed to you guessed it Yellowstone. Woohoo I am so happy as I didn't think we were going to get to go.
Anyways will be out of touch for 5 or 6 days, no phones, no Internet. Will have new pics when I get back.

Lizzie is 1!

We had a great party for Lizard. Kolby and Daniel were unable to make it and we missed them. The kids always have the best time.

Birthdays!

so we have 4 birthdays this month in our family. Tomorrow is lizards birthday and we are having a birthday party here at the house for her (yes I will have lots of pics) Then it will be Daniels then Kolbys and then Chelle Belly's. Almost one a week.

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So I been following this case out of Orlando Florida of 3 year old Caylee Anthony who was missing for a month before she was reported missing by her grandmother. Her mother claims that she left her with the babysitter and when she came back they were gone and she had spent the last month looking for her daughter. Everything she told the police was a lie, nothing and nobody she told them about existed. The mother has been arrested on child endangerment, lying to police, and obstruction of justice, these are charges that relate to Caylee. Also she has other charges relating to checks she stole from a friends.

The whole thing is just crazy, the police believe this little girl is dead. The grandmother absolutely refuses to believe that the child is dead and insist that everybody needs to be out looking for this child. They have evidence that there was a dead body in the mothers trunk. And now they have found chloroform in the trunk and Searches for chloroform on the mothers computer.

If this was a murder mystery I was reading I wouldn't be able to put it down, but nobody I know could write like this story.

Anyways I'm putting up some links if you are interested in this story you can check it out yourself.

http://http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/nationworld/orl-caylee-anthony-case,0,3157747.htmlpage

http://http://www.wesh.com/news/17388359/detail.html

http://http://www.wftv.com/news/17382107/detail.html

Also there is a forum discussion made up of people who are also following this case with some very interesting theories

http://http://www.topix.com/forum/city/orlando-fl/T05QKB7VTUV7MBH61/p245

Well I'm off to do something else.

wild sunflowers
wild sunflowers

baby watermelon
puddles

This is the one and only marigold I have and it came up all by itself
My flowers

Odin
Rocky

We had a quiet weekend with not a lot going on till sunday night when we had thunder storms and rain move in, It was pretty crazy we still have puddles every where at least I won't have to water for a couple of days.

It was cool and wet Monday morning so I made stew and rolls even this morning it is cold out fall is in the air.