Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Teakettle shrowded in clouds (view over 24 hours)

This was a week or two ago.  I looked out the window and saw this cloud cap, which Katie also saw from school.    ...

Kids catching little crabs at the beach (video)

This is a video from earlier this summer.  We were in Snohomish, Washington, visiting my aunt, brother, sister-in-law, and cousin and took a detour with my aunt to hang out the beach. When I was a kid, my grandmother would take us to Salt Water Park and we would gather little crabs like this for hours and hours.  The other adutlts took us, too....it was just often my grandma that said yes when we begged to go and often let us bring a few home. It was a lot of fun to watch my kids help fill other kids buckets.  Christopher was...

Monday, September 19, 2011

Girl Scouts Glacier Campout

An amazing weekend of girlscouting!  Columbia Falls has a spectacular group of leaders.  They get the girls outside....really outside.  They take their own troops amazing places, and the take the time to share with each others troops as well.  They've been doing this together for years, and they operate like a well oiled machine, with the oldest girls fully aware of what's needed and what help their mom's need to get it going. I...

Friday, September 16, 2011

"If I were the wind" (Leopold on geese)

"Out of the clouds I hear a faint bark, as of a faraway dog. It is strange how the world cocks its ear to that sound, wondering. Soon it is louder: the honk of geese, invisible, but coming on. The flock emerges from the low clouds, a tattered banner of birds, dipping and rising, blown up and blown down, blown together and blown apart, but advancing, the wind wrestling lovingly with each winnowing wing. When the flock is a blur in the far sky I hear the last honk, sounding taps for summer. It is warm behind the driftwood now, for the wind has...

Thursday, September 15, 2011

Short endangered honu video (Honua~peace)

My turtle stuff is all on my other blog Turtle Medicine: Stories of a Rocky Mountain CFIDS Mom, but this clip from youtube fits here. waikiki last week I've posted oodles about turtles already this week, but I need a little more turtle in this gray Montana day.  It'll help me pack for our Glacier girlscout trip this weeken...

Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Little chickens, big victories (videos)

Our yard is a wonderful place to be.  We've been keeping ducks and chickens for a couple of years.  Our numbers are low at the moment, but we'll be bringing in more of each by spring.  These are chicks we hatched for our friend Heidi, becuase we had a broody hen and she didn't (one of the babies she gave us last year....the only one of five that wasn't a rooster)....

Sunday, September 11, 2011

Bowman Lake, Glacier National Park (last campground night of the season)

We couldn't camp Friday night because I didn't make it back from Hawaii until the latest flight (see Turtle Medicine blog posts for pictures from that trip.....lots of sea turtles).  So we headed up after Christopher's football practice Saturday.  We were using my backpacking gear for car camping for way too many years, so we used to be able to fit ourselves and our stuff in our car to camp.  But with four of us plus dog plus a...