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Some Animal Sightings

 

Ildi's Family Visit

Mom, Dad & Gracie came for the July 4th weekend, and it was wonderful!

This was the first year I got to see the fireworks because I wasn't working, and I got to enjoy it with Mom, Dave, Polly & Artie while Dad and Gracie rested up for the festivities to come.  We had a relaxing day on the beach, enjoyed the blossoming bear grass on the Secesh Summit, soaked up Bergdorf hot spring, and celebrated Dave's birthday with a dinner at the Bistro 45. The next day we fished two lakes and a river, explored some natural hot springs and boated on Lake Cascade, which happened to be Gracie's favorite activity of the weekend.  What an awesome dog!

Dave's Family Visit

It was awesome to have the Koehlingers back in Idaho in the summertime.  Isaac and Grandma's first visit!!  There was boating, hiking, kayaking, a zipline tour, an auto tour, a sweet hot tub, and tons of cards and meals and laughs.  We had such a great time!  Thank you so much for coming!

Mushrooms & Snow in Mid-June

 

The morel mushroom hunting season was awesome this year, because they love burn areas.  There were groups of migrant workers picking them walking shoulder to shoulder at Warm Lake.  Dave and I went to the Gray's creek burn (the fire that came close to our property last summer) and found quite a few.  Enough for 4 delicious meals!  And we had 3 inches of snow on June 14, which was 6 inches in the mountains.  That was craziness, although very beautiful.

Early Spring in Idaho

The winter was long this year, and the snow stayed for a long while.  It was there for us even after we returned from vacation to Europe.  The picture of the two of us is from the Cirque du Soleil (Thank You Tibor & Dora.)  And the building is the Lodge at Tamarack where I used to work my second job at Morels restaurant.  I was laid off this spring, and because of scheduling conflicts won't be returning.  So yay, no more of those 6 day weeks and 16 hour days.