Tonight is Talent Night in our Rec Room. It should be interesting. Someone is signed up to sing, another to read some of her poetry, another will share "thoughts from a buffalo and Bud and I will contribute as well. Bud will tell a few baseball stories and I will display some of the doll clothes I have been making since coming here. (OK - friends and followers, you've got to KNOW they are hard up for talent when they ask us to participate. Some of the guys have heard Bud speak about fishing and baseball and he does have an audience at times.) Really, it should be lots of fun - just being together and enjoying the new friends we've made.
Some of our friends are leaving already. Miguel flew back to Columbia Friday and Ashley, one of the kitchen staff left today for Idaho. More will leave at the end of this week. Even more will leave after Labor Day. Sort of sad to see the group part. We will really miss everyone and would like to think they could and would come back next year.
Our days off were changed this week. We normally are off Wed.-Fri. but this week we are off Mon.-Wed. Greg is coming the end of this month and we will make for sure our days off are back to "normal" for us that week. Today has been a lazy day - sleeping, sewing, eating and now sitting up on the hill so we can get good internet service. It is about to rain - wind is blowing, sky is turning dark and there is a coolness in the air. Love the mountain summer storms. The berries are beginning to appear and the bears are hungry. Our little black bear has become too friendly and comfortable around people so we have been asked to let the Ranger know when he is around so they can come and "bean bag" him to move him away. They may even sedate him to put a collar on him and transport him away from the area. He is still so young and naïve. The bison are beginning to feel the urges of there hormones and are becoming territorial. The males stomp the ground, urinate there and then roll around in the mud that they have created, for (in their mind and culture) they believe that this makes them attractive to the females. Really quite a sight. Hopefully we can take some video and post it. The males are beginning to challenge each other for priority rights of mating, so there's lots of "head butting" going on. It will get more intense in the next few days.
On the way home from Bozeman the other day we were fortunate enough to see a mountain goat with her young one nursing. She was far away but hopefully if you zoom up on it you can see the little one under her.
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