Nov 29, 2012 - Boondocked in a gravel parking area in Three Forks, MT

Boondocked in a gravel parking area in Three Forks, MT (45°53'57.56"N 111°32'2.20"W) for one night. This very beautiful, and quiet area has numerous asphalt biking/walking trails intertwined around the four (04) pristine Three Forks Ponds, and only a short walk to the Madison River. From our coach we can see the snow capped mountains out of both sides of the coach: the Bridger Mountains (north side) and the Tobacco Root Mountains (south side). Across the street is the beautiful, Headwaters Public Golf Course. A few miles away on the...

Sep 3, 2012 - I Think We Are Ready

I finally finished waxing the coach and getting her ready to hit the road. After being parked for four months there is a lot of housekeeping and organizing to do to get ready for an extended trip out to California. The trip schedule I have worked out will take us through about 18 states and 6,000 miles before we start our campground host duties at Bothe-Napa Valley State Park December 1st. Randi, her dog Champ and boyfriend Brett stopped by to say good bye, Randi was an intern here at the Park this summer and is working on going to the...

Aug 30, 2012 - Treated To A Cookout

Didn't have my camera with me yesterday so I went back this afternoon to take a picture of the beaver dam. Too my surprise they had built it a another few inches higher but now they have opened a gap in the center? Dave and Anne put on a cook out for Greg, Patti, Mary & Me this evening of BBQ chicken and grilled corn, plus everyone else brought a dish or desert.

Aug 29, 2012 - My Dam Is Working

The beaver finally filled in the gap of the dam they built, it looks like the dam I built is working to prevent our walking path from going under water again. There are now three fires burning around us plus all the smoke from the Idaho fires, visibility was less than a mile today even though the wind was blowing at 20-30MPH

Aug 28, 2012 - Fall Must Be On The Way

Another deer was hit down by the picnic grounds again last night, that makes four or five so far this summer. Finished redoing site #16, it will be interesting to see the campground looks like next spring after they get done with the gravel project. I seen a couple large flocks of Canadian geese flying overhead today, just another indicator that fall is on the way.

Aug 27, 2012 - Hair Color Anyone?

This weekend was surprisingly slow for Mary and Patti at the contact station but the campground has filled up each night. We both went into Three Forks to have Skip give us our hair cuts before leaving. After Mary gets her hair cut I put on my hair dressers hat to dye here hair. Spent a few hours clearing around site 16 to make it a little larger.

Aug 26, 2012 - Getting Starting

Yesterdays wind took down an 80' cotton wood tree next to the Fort Rock parking area so me and Greg spent a few hours cutting up and hauling off four pickup loads of limbs and branches. Finally quit procrastinating and got started at washing and waxing the coach, got the roof scrubbed down then washed and waxed the right side.

Aug 21, 2012 - Acupuncture?

I almost hit a deer this morning on my drive through the park, it was so close that I think her tail is couple of inches shorter. After dropping Mary off for her bingo game I seen Dr. Pascual the sleep doctor for a follow up visit, the oxygen generator seems to help because I seem to be sleeping good at night except for the fact that I get up every morning at 5AM no matter when I go to bed. I still have a tough time sitting still during the day from the restless body syndrome so she suggested acupuncture as a possible solution.

Aug 20, 2012 - Zucchini Parmesan

Another three hours of weed eating weeds this morning. Picked a huge zucchini from the garden so Mary tried her hand at making zucchini parmesan, it came out so good that we plan to have it at least once more before we leave. This evening we went into the Bozeman senior center for the pancake and sausage supper before playing bingo, I managed to win one game playing five cards Mary played ten cards but couldn't find the right cards for a win. Went for a drive through the park when we got home even though it was after dark when I drove down...

Aug 18, 2012 - What's for supper? Bugs or Beef?

Our last Saturday night speaker for this year was Florence Dunkel whose topic was "What's for supper? Bugs or Beef?" (www.foodinsectsnewsletter.org) She uses the term "Land Shrimp" instead of insects to make it sound more palatable. The sauteed grasshoppers in the fresh garden salad were very tasty, the little white mealy worms she used in the Quesada's didn't seem to have much taste or texture. What she served up was pretty good and she gave some good statistical reasons why we should switch from beef to bugs but I don't think I'll...

Aug 17, 2012 - Could Have Been A Disaster

We had quite a scare today when our brush burn pile went up in flames. The burn pile was about twenty feet in diameter and ten feet high located about twenty feet from the wooden fence behind the shop. By the time the volenteer fire departmant got there it was pretty much burned down, about all we could do was keep the fence watered down. We were extremely lucky that there wasn't any wind blowing or we could of had a disaster on our hands. We had people say they saw the smoke from the fire in Belgrade fifteen miles away. Apparently the...

Aug 16, 2012 - Fifty Boys, One Bathroom

We got our mule back today, all that was wrong was that a ground wire was broken. Don Moran from Mobil RV Tech was out today to replace a broken spring in the bedroom slide awning, tune up our aqua hot system and perform the fourth recall fix on the refrigerator since we got our coach five years ago. Mary had a break even day of bingo. We now have two boy scout troops here tonight one troop of ten from Parker Prairie, Mn and another troop of forty from Washington. Fifty boys using the same bathroom I can just imagine what it will look like...