New Years Day Drive

  Another video with my new camera, cruisin up the valley to the Galena lodge.
 I have never seen so many people along the road, snowmobiling, cross country skiing and snowshoeing  in the fresh snow.

 A Link to the video

                                     

  I guess that a 95$ a day lift ticket for the ski mountain is a bit too much for a lot of peoples pocketbook these days.
  Vehicles hauling snowmobiles have been passing by for weeks, just to see them returning an hour or so later because of the sparse snow cover.  So now they're happy.
 So enjoy this little clip, music by the way is from a group from Italy, the "Stone Pillow", and a couple tunes from the album "Country Girls"     Bella, Bella,  Piasanos

Later Tater Tot

Well little Tater Tot is off on another adventure.
  She's off to another continent for a while.
   Good Luck and God speed.

Fall winds down.

Well it's been better weather, Indian Summer of sorts. Still chilly. But we got an inch of snow this week while East of the Rockies got feet.
Sorry Sun Valley Ski Resort, but I don't ski. :C)

The fox came by just while I was sitting down to play, too bad my virtual pet was moving and you can't see my level 70 wolf.
The piece is for putting the "Phantom Hill Wolf Pack" on alert when I see hunters go by.
Yah, up yours too hunters.


Otherwise it's wood cutting time. Practicing Poi, Chuck

Carey Idaho Rodeo

We went from rain and snow for the last few weeks to record high temps, (80's).
Now it's the normal JO, JO, season.
(Jacket Off, Jacket On)
When the sun shines, it's hot, when a cloud comes by, it's cold.
Leaves are appearing, and the Rodeo's are on.
I was in Carey, Idaho and visited a family whose daughters were in the rodeo that evening.
One was even crowned queen. Go girl!

I used some of the photos in the set to try a new web service called Animoto. They turn your pictures and music into a slide show that is web friendly. The free version is short but has promise.
Try clicking on the Rodeo Queen.

New Mom x5

Well the mystery of the gender of the "Kitchen Fox" is finally solved.
I'm watching HER, and her 5 kits from my window.
The pics are through double pane windows so a bit blurry, I don't want to press my presence and have her move.
How cool!

Create your own video slideshow at animoto.com.

Volunteering

Well the Special Olympics didn't need any help.
I also volunteered for helping at the local food bank, to no avail.
But I did get a response from the PIT or "Passport in Time" program.
The project I applied for is a week in the Frank Church Wilderness.
Wilderness = no power tools. They aim to pack our supplies in to rebuild a cabin
in the Warm Springs drainage. Right next to the Shower Bath Hot Springs.
The same one that I struggled to find as the trail is not maintained on the lower stretch since the fire.
That's where I found the cougar that had been killed by the fire and immortalized it with a picture on my website.
Click on the picture to go to the PIT website, click "current projects at the top, and then Idaho to see a current view of the cabin.

Otherwise life drags on here with unemployment reigning.
I've even sent for my college records to see what I need to finish my Forest Fire Science degree.

The snow on the valley floor is about gone, with mud and trail closures next.
The Fox still drops by for a snack in the evenings.
I saw it dig up an egg from a cache under a tree in the snow. ( I don't give it an egg every time it shows up so as not to spoil him)







See ya"ll