Turkeys in the yard

I just got off the treadmill, too slick to walk outside lately :-(
And when I looked out the window I had a yard full of turkeys!.
The tom turkeys were all fluffed out like the typical picture of turkeys you see on all the Thanksgiving decorations. But in real life when they get all fluffed out they shimmy and shake and gobble alot trying to impress all the hen turkeys. It is cool to watch, so a ran to get my camera and when I got it set up they had decided to take a break and peck around for food instead. Fickle turkeys

Stuff on my blog page

If you all have checked in from time to time you have seen some new stuff added to the page as features.
I have a lunar moon phase chart, a NASA picture of the day, and a National Geographic picture of the day.
If you take some time to look, there are hotlink areas you can click to learn more about the photos shown. It is kind of interesting. Sometimes I don't know what the NASA picture is (can't guess it anyway) so I click the link and learn something new!
The picture it shows currently looks the the landscape of the moon, but click it and find out what it really is!!
And for all you readers, I have updated my reading list. What have you read lately? Check out some of the books that I have currently read if you are not sure what to read next, or maybe you are a murder mystery reader and just don't know what else you would like.....try a few different genre's just for fun!

Also at the bottom of my page is a jigsaw puzzle for you to put together. It is fun and there is a link there as well to the jigsaw of the day.

So when you come to check out what I have been doing, take sometime and browse around the site to see what may be new.

More Pretty Ice Pictures

I do love the sunshine on the ice. You can even see the stones on the creek bottom.



Another picture of the ice on Hunsacker Creek.

Nature creates a perfect circle of ice

We went for a brisk walk this morning in the brisk fall weather, and on Hunsacker Creek the water action on the freezing surface made a ice disk...cool huh?! I got my video camera out to share this wonder of nature. Ice is sooooo cool!! (I guess you can tell that I've lived in Alaska for too many years to be so excited about ice!!)
So all you math fanatics.....why the perfect circle? I know....do you????

Napping Practice....Check!!

Because Georgia is new...she really didn't know how nap time was to be done properly. So when Emily came home for Thanksgiving Break they did some practice sessions until it was well learned. This gives meaning to Three Dog Night. It has been cold here, between 15 and 20 degrees overnight. So they couldn't have learned at a more opportune time!

Pug-O-War!!

The beautiful fall weather

In October, the week of the 22nd to be exact. We had the most awesome weather on the river. Lori (the sister in Arkansas) usually comes home in October so we decided that it would be great to go salmon fishing down below Hells Canyon Dam. The fish were up and so why not.
This next pic shows Lisa and I out on the point trying our luck. Fishing was great, catching was impossible!!


The weather was great as you can tell from the sunshine pics, and the wildlife viewing was great as well. If you look closely by the waters edge (thankfully it was on the other side of the river) you can see a bear. He had come down the draw on the opposite side of the river and he did a bit of fishing as well.


Our fishing spot is about a mile or so hike down river on the Oregon side at Stud Creek. The trail to take to get there is a beautiful hike. Jeanne is posing, (mom is taking the pic, and Lori had gone by already) Lisa is next on the trail and I am bringing up the rear.


Jeanne ended up catching the only fish of the day, a bass. But at least she caught something!!
I caught a few Vit D's from the sun, and had a wonderful day anyway!!