Trying to catch up while Bud is looking for some new work shoes. We are in Bozeman today, even though the drive here is spectacular, we are getting a little bored with spending our off days driving to the same place each week.
Seems like summer has arrived with a vengeance and it is terribly hot. Even though the temperature has been in the mid to upper 80's it is almost unbearable. The store is attempting to run the air conditioning, but honestly is it is cooler with the doors open. At least there is a breeze. Road construction came to a halt today until Sunday night. Hoping that will produce a lot of customers over the week-end. We were busier the past few days than in June, so maybe that is a good sign.
We are here in Bozeman not only looking for shoes for Bud but also to purchase cotton sheets. We brought flannel sheets with us thinking that the nights would be cold and we would enjoy the comfort of flannel. NOT!! So we ended up at our favorite store - As Caleb use to call it "Paradise" (WalMart) and did a little sheet shopping along with a few other things.
We thought they had boosted our internet service, but it is as slow as ever. So I'm taking advantage of the tree shaded parking lot at TJ Maxx and trying to catch up.
We lost another one of our cooks this morning. He got tired of the #1 cook bossing him and calling him names, so HR moved him to West Yellowstone. He is a nice guy and we hope that he does better over there. One of the other cook's (the sort of mama bear over the Employee Dining Room - EDR we call it) Vikki, lost her mother on Sunday. She could not make the arrangements to go home so she took a few days off. Her mother was terminal and they had said their goodbye's before Vikki came out to work. So it is a mystery as to who will cook and what we will eat. So far it has been OK but we both have lost a few pound, not necessarily from the food but from the work and the heat.
We will be heading out of Bozeman in the next few minutes so I will try and download a few picture before loosing the 4G networking. (Tomorrow is the 4th and we will have a cook out at lunch - steaks we understand. I will try to take pictures of some of our new friends.)
These first three pictures are out of sequence. We actually saw the little cub on our way back to the dormitory. Bless his little heart he has been separated from his mother. We can only guess that he is in her way right now. It is the mating season for the black bear and often times the mother will abandon the baby because she wants to mate and doesn't want the baby to be killed by a big make bear.
He was licking some paper. We think he is hungry. He has been seen by a few of our employees in the area over the past several day.
The Ranger had the traffic stopped for almost 2 miles tryin gto shew the baby cub away. The Ranger was clapping his hands and throwing rocks at it trying to get it to move from the road. If you look closely at the bottom left of this picture, the cub is hiding behind the tall tree near the orange netting.
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This is our resident Bison - guess you might call him the construction mascot.
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