It was three years ago, Happy Halloween, that we moved into our little home on the prairie.  It is by far the best move we’ve ever made.  Beautiful views, wonderful neighbors, fantastic neighborhood, and BEST of al only 50 miles from Yellowstone National Park. What a beautiful day it was in the Park yesterday.  I’ve [...]

Our street, our view!!  What could be better – snow up on the peaks, but nothing down here yet.

Our park is a very, very fine park!! Sacajawea Park that is here in Livingston, Montana.  We went down to see if our Trumpeter Swans were there.  Didn’t find them but found so many Canadian Geese “picnicking” on crab apples and then moving toward the play area where the swings and slides are. Then after [...]

This morning dawned sunny and bright, but cool – 19 degrees.  Fortunately we did not get snow like they are having in Colorado.  For about 15 minutes yesterday we had humongous flakes and it was coming down really hard – looked like big white feathers were falling from the sky – but it quit as [...]

We have been watching and waiting for our pronghorns to return and yesterday about 6:00pm Grandma Dora spotted them on the ridge across from our house. Pronghorns live to be about 11 years old and are 3-5 feet tall weighing between 90-150 pounds.  The live in bands or herds and the herd that has returned [...]

Yellowstone National Park is so big that sometimes when people visit for the first time they have no idea where to go to see animals.  This web page from the Park Service web site can be very helpful. http://www.nps.gov/yell/naturescience/mammalscheck.htm (http://www NULL.nps NULL.gov/yell/naturescience/mammalscheck NULL.htm) Be sure and check out the entire Yellowstone National Park web site. [...]

Special thanks to Debbie Collins at the Yellowstone Association for her thoughtful consideration.

Today’s the day that LeeAnn and Jason find out if their first baby is a boy or girl.  We’re anxiously waiting to hear. Grandma Dora’s brother Tom and his wife Janet have two other grandchildren but they are out in Oklahoma so this will be their first grandchild that will be real close so they [...]

Yesterday as you know was the beginning of the World Series and being Missouri born and raised, I was anxious to watch the game.  But, you know how those plans go.  About mid-afternoon our Dish-TV went out.  All we could get was a message saying there was no signal.  Well the first two people at [...]

Yesterday we visited our resident trumpeter swans at Sacajawea Park here in Livingston.  It was a beautiful day and they were enjoying the sunshine and the warmth.  There is a lagoon in the Park and the moving water from the Yellowstone River that flows into it.  So there is open water almost year round for [...]