Camping Experience

While camping we had lots of cool experiences with little critters and some not so little. We had gray squirrels and a chipmunk and humming birds. The little critters came right up to us and ate unsalted peanuts from the ground near us. A doe came down and ate peanuts too. She was not afraid of us. After she ate, she laid down in the grass and cooled herself in the shade. She stayed there for some time. We had a wonderful experience during our camping stay.

I'm Getting Older and Life is Getting Better!

Randy and I have been camping for almost a week. I have come home tonight to get some things done and then I will join him again. We are both so relaxed when we are in the mountains. My answer to religion is there: in God's Country. The campground is only 1/2 hour away. It's so convenient. Kathy and John help us with the cats. We bring them up camping on weekends. We will be going to Oregon again in August to visit Jennifer and Rob at a home they rented in Bend. We are excited about this as well.

The cats are a pain and I do wish Randy would consider finding homes for most of them. But he worries that they will not be treated right. Life is so much less stressful now than when I had to work and raise kids. I did enjoy camping then as well and being with my kids but it was not like it is now. My life feels like it has just begun! We care for each other more each day and maybe if things go as planned there may be a wedding in our future but not right away. I feel younger today than I have for some time. Things would have probably been this way had Alex lived and I had retired but we never got to find out.

Young people do not have the corner on love and emotion! I hope they can be as happy as I am now when they are my age and have retired. I may be fat and wrinkled with white hair but I still have some love and spunk left in me.

Cats and Catnip

We got some catnip for our cats and placed it on the scratching board. They all hung around wanting the action.

Meet Little Guy

Little Guy is a male tabby who just showed up one night at our house. Of course he keeps coming back because he gets the royal treatment here. He has not been neutered. Randy and I both really love him. He's an outside cat most of the time but we let him in now and then.

Our Yellowstone Trip and Other News

On May 21, we went to Contessa's graduation. Marty and Cherise were great hosts. We spent the night with our trailer parked in Marty's driveway. After the graduation, we all went to The Olive Garden to eat. Contessa graduated with honors and also got a scholarship to Logan Utah State University. She will live with relatives there while going to school. We are proud of her. We also saw the Fall of Idaho Falls and lots of cute baby geese with their mothers watching close by.

The next day we went to Yellowstone Park. We camped at a KOA in West Yellowstone. We spent that day setting up and swimming and used the hot tub. It snowed a little that day. The next day it was pretty good weather. We went into the park and visited almost all of it. Randy had never been there before. We saw buffalo and cute baby buffalo and elk and a bald eagle in its next way up high. We saw all the geysers including Old Faithful. The blue pools are still my favorite. We saw the stinky mud pots as well. Yellowstone Lake was mostly frozen over. Yellowstone is so different in the cold weather. I was really mad because my digital camera broke when I had only taken a few photos. I had to send it in to get fixed. So I got the chip out and got the ones I did take put on a cd and I have them in this blog.

We spent that night again at West Yellowstone in our trailer and watched DVDS. We ate supper at a Chinese place that was not very good and highly priced.

The next day we headed out to Jackson Wyoming. It had been raining all day and on the way to the Tetons there was still lots of snow and the lakes were frozen. You could not see the tips of the Tetons for the clouds but they were majestic all the same. We spent the night at a KOA in Jackson where it rained all night. I used my Garmin to find the place but I had programmed the wrong address which I got from MapQuest so we had a hard time finding the KOA and Randy got quite upset with me and the Garmin. We camped by the Snake River. The next morning it was nice weather and we went down to the river before heading home to Utah. It was a safe trip and fun but we need to fix the toilet in the trailer as it leaks a little. Randy is so picky about everything; it all must be perfect and so he really takes good care of the trailer and keeps everything so clean.

Nice to Have a Man around the House

Randy helps me so much around the house. He washed all my windows inside and out and washed all the siding on the house. He cleaned the trailer and washed all the curtains in the living room and the shower curtains in the bathrooms. He is a good helper to me. We just might get married someday if I can figure out my finances so my kids still get everything I want them to.

Randy

Randy is doing better with his health now. I hope he keeps feeling better. The Dr. couldn't find any real problems.

He is now taking a class at the Senior Center. It is the AARP driving course. We are looking forward to using our new trailer this summer.