prince family visit

MOUNTAIN MAMAS!
here's our hiking girls on top of webb mountain. great day playing with the princes.

logan, after a nosedive in the deepest mud puddle on the journey.

logan is mud loving boy.

melt down because i pulled him out of a puddle!

a great hug from elle, my new hiking buddy.

twodot, montana

bob won the bid to rebuild part of an irrigation ditch in twodot, montana. he was gone for a month, but we were able to go support him for a week of the job.

this was his campsite. our new camper was purchased just for the occasion, i'm sure we will get a lot of use out of it, great bathroom and kitchen, mama's happy!

he dug it out and installed a 3 part liner system.

wind is the biggest resource here. logan couldn't even play at the playground one day it was so strong. poor little tyke was being pushed over every time he stood up!


daddy working with the crazy mountains in the distance. named after an early settler woman who became lost and destitude here. they found her here, a "crazy woman".

where in the hell is twodot?

well, its the gographical center of montana and the windiest place i've ever been.

first and the biggest windfarm in the state are here.

also where bob has been working for the month of april.

we missed him terribly, but we enjoyed our visit.

twodot is named for twodot wilson, a cattle rancher, who had two dots for his brand, on the the hip and shoulder. not a lot more than cattle ranches and windmills in twodot. the town was 2 blocks long and 2 blocks wide.

baby moose

mama moose had a little one in our backyard this weekend. see the little one under mama?
just after mama moose charged max, he hustled for home then!

cleaning her new baby.

mud puddles and dogs

we adopted a new dog named maximus, an airedale, to be our guard dog.
airedales are bred to be tenacious hunters of bears and lions. most importantly, gentle with little ones and protective. perfect combination for camp cuffe. been raining here for weeks, mud puddles have been our passion lately.
mistie and simon visited to join in the fun.

max, doing his thing. he circles the clearing around the house a couple of times an hour. gives an alert bark to let us know if he sees anything.

max is always close by keeping an eye on the action, checks on each of us individually.



max's favorite perch.

eureka riverwalk

it was 70 degrees in eureka today!
we took jo's trike out for a cruise and logan waddled along.
took us 2 and a half hours to go 1.2 miles.
a great day was had by all.

thanks for the fleece gigi and aunt carmen.

jake's handmedown bear hat, i believe.

thank you!

sled riding party

long time sled riding party in trego, montana. karin and pom sang kid songs around the fire.
anna the milk cow scared johanna with those big horns.
even a sighting of a rare snowfrog! ~ really our neighbor carlos, just entertaining the little ones.
pretty fast sled riding!
see jo to daddy's right, peaking out at the pig?

johanna is 3!!

johanna's favorite movie was part of her list of birthday activities.
a hike with just mom and the birthday girl always includes a spin on the swing that we put up half way around the trail.
she's 3!
party was fun, thanks for the blocks uncle dave and auntie nea!
ice cream cake from dairy queen.. mmmmm. one of the benefits to a birthday in january in eureka, montana.