New Favorite Pastime

This skill will prove handy in the Rocky Mountains!

I'm Told These are Small Specimens

On our way to Haystack Gulch last night, we came across these two handsome fellas.

There was a 3rd, but he's out of view here. They were snooping along the lower hillside when we came along & they quickly made for the top.

What did I do to deserve this...

When I drive to:
the library
the grocery store
to church

This is just a sample of what I get to gaze upon while running errands.

Heaven on earth!

Before I Lose My Connection

I have very iffy wifi here at the park.

I'm forced to make a short list, instead of a post, for each of these items. I might be able to expound later.

• hummingbirds here are fierce, if that word can possibly be used for the little bird. They buzz around here making that noise the Jetson's flying car makes. I love it!

• Our cat brought a baby chipmunk into the house yesterday morning. It was not injured, but it did get away from the cat and quickly scurried behind the woodstove firewall. It stayed there all day until I could take its pitiful squeaking no more! I tore apart the firewall to extricate the little guy, who quickly dashed to our bathroom. I trapped him in a box & let him out the back door. The cat loves her chippies! She loves to hold them, not hurt them.

• Steve finally got his official NPS uniforms. He looks very handsome in uniform, but a little silly when he accessorizes with Sis' Jr. Ranger hat ;)

• Our house showed yesterday. No word yet on their interest.

• We also looked at a house yesterday. It's on 37 acres, has a foundation laid for a huge workshop, and the house is only a shell. That could mean great fun in completing it how WE want. Please pray for this!

• I start my new job today. I will be a server at the restaurant here at the National Park. It's called Pappy's, and I can't wait to get there & straighten tables, chairs, and reset the tables. I'm a little OCD when it comes to this kind of thing. I chalk it up to working at Canoe Bay. (can you relate Mol?)

• It rained the most wonderful rain last night. My little-bitty garden in our little-bitty backyard is thriving. Peppers, tomatoes, summer & zucchini squash, & mint (for the Mojitos!)

• One of my perks with my new job is free access to any rental pontoon. When you live at the largest lake in the state, access to a boat is HUGE. Can't wait to hit the water.

• I could list bullet points all day, but alas! My battery is dying & I can't sit on my front stoop any longer (the one & only place I get wifi).

Enjoy your weekend everyone! Keep in touch!

There Are No Coincidences

Let's say you're moving west & are looking for land to buy....

So, you place an ad on Craiglist, out west, stating you're moving from WI to CO and are looking for land. Within a week you get an email from someone who is moving from CO to WI, and they ask if we know of any property for sale? wow.

So you reply, with full details of your WI property. And then you don't hear back from them. Oh well, maybe we're not in the area they're looking at. Then in the midst of the chaos of getting packed you forget about this "coincidence."

Then, while going through your emails & purging old messages you come across these emails from 2 months ago. You decide to contact them, just touch base.

As God would have it these folks from CO are looking at properties with their realtor this week. Between Rice Lake & New Auburn.

Did you get that?

Between Rice Lake & New Auburn.

Now some of you might not grasp how amazing this is. You may not know that our house? It's about as "between Rice Lake & New Auburn" as you can get!

Do you have goosebumps too?

What are the chances that in Wisconsin's 65,000 square miles, these folks I've been corresponding with are looking precisely where my property is?!

I'm at a loss for words, but you'd better believe I sent them our MLS listing for our house!

Please pray!!

And for those of you totally freaking out over any kind of crazy "Craigslist" stalker scenario, nobody is come to my house without a realtor present, or at least my hubby.

I can hardly wrap my mind around this....