Lynn - 9 months old
Lower Falls, Yellowstone 
Doe and Fawn in the Front Yard
Wyoming Range, Cattle Ranch TIIII-ERRDD. Don't know exactly why though. It was a clear day, but pretty cool and still a stiff wind.
This morning Joe went back out to the ranch and is still working on getting things opened up and ready for us to go stay there for a while. He found that the toilet standpipe? is broken - probably had some water in it that froze and broke the part right in half, so he has to find where to buy that correct pipe and get that fixed. He took the dogs with him.
Today we didn't get going very early this morning. I got a big load of laundry going and finished it up later.
Although its a small trip compared to the expedition we wanted to take to Devil's Tower, we decided to go exploring around the roads nearby to see exactly the lay of the land and where all these roads go, or don't go. There were several small herds of beautiful deer along the way. We went up to the first overlook on Fremont Lake, beyond which there began to be more snow on the road. And another note, when Debbie and Curtis took a ride up there a few days ago the lake was still frozen, now the ice is gone and it is all blue again.
Then to White Pine Ski Area, which wasn't doing business right now, but the door was open so Beverly got to see the ski lodge and the lifts. Just went to the overlook of Halfmoon Lake and took a couple of pictures since we've been there quite a few times. It was also not frozen. Then we drove to the bottom of Fremont Lake and also went to the CCC ponds where we walked around the loop trail - about a mile. It sure could have been a lot more pleasant weather. Dang wind.
Back home for some lunch at nearly 2:30, a Mexican salad with the leftover fajita fixin's. And then back out to retrace some of the places we had gone a few days ago to get these nearby roads memorized. We tried to drive to the place I took the photo of and asked "who owns this place", but skipped the drive that would have taken us there. Went to overlook it again and saw where we went wrong. Six people wrote me back with whose place it was, and had six different answers! Guess it's where the Platts live though, and Joe knew that.
Then we drove up the Willow Lake Road a ways, mainly to see how Pine Creek came down through there from the other side of the creek. We are a lot closer to the Willow Lake Road than I imagined. I showed Beverly some of the houses we had looked at when we were house shopping over that way, and most are still for sale. On the way back we stopped at A to Z and got two more sets of furniture sliders we need to finish getting those on all the furniture - the desk and bench to go. And went to the Post Office. Then we stopped at Obo's and got some of their baby back ribs.
I thought the ribs were a little dry and not as tender as we would like, so I steamed them in the cooker for an hour and they got more tender that way. Joe liked them. Beverly got some potatoes into the oven to bake while we went out and spread the grass seed that Bonnie and Craig gave us. Got the bare ground on the whole south side of the lot where they scraped the ground of all vegetation to build the house. Now we can only hope for some rain.
Next we put in the reflectors at the entrance to the driveway where those boulders are lurking waiting to wreck some unsuspecting vehicle. I held the posts and Beverly wielded the sledge hammer. Three went in pretty easy and one had to be difficult, but we finally found a spot that let it go down between underground rocks. Now just hope the snowplows don't knock them over. I should be able to see the reflector posts and guide the car better while backing out of the garage.
Well I'm not going to download and edit the photos taken today, but have a few others ready to go and will use them instead. Maybe a photo essay with today's pictures will be a good thing to do later. For now, I'm probably going to bed. Beverly is already in bed tonight.
