the week in review

just because we don't update our life on the blog daily,
we really do have a daily life.

the internet connection is tough sometimes
so it's very frustrating to try to post every night.
it seems that i have a decent connection right now, so
i will try to post as much as possible before i lose the connection.

we leave for work about 7:30a mon thru friday and get home about 5:00p.
we end up going into town, about 10 miles away, a couple to times a week.
sometimes to grab a bite to eat and others just to go to the grocery store

weekends, we try to get out and see something new in the area.
we haven't done any hiking yet, but are planning on some of the easy ones to get started.

by the time we get home from work, we are beat and aren't up to doing too much,
especially john, he gets a work out all day long moving boxes of books from place to place.

we do carry our cameras with us everywhere we go.
i tend to be the one to grab my camera more than john does.

here is what we have seen lately...

two bald eagles in a tree.  this is not a good picture and i could have gotten a great one, but we were on our way to work and john could only stop in the road while i took this really quick.  i was sooooo discouraged that i could not take the time to get closer.  this was the 2nd time we had seen this pair in the area, so now i search for them everytime we drive by.

a view of the tetons through the yellowflowers that are blooming all over the area.  i am probably wrong, but i think they are called arrowroot balsam or something pretty close to that.

there are numerous versions of this picture in galleries and on postcards.  i tried like everyone who comes to the park, to get a picture like the professionals take.

thursday, we went to a bbq at the home of judy and randy.  we work with judy who is the bookkeeper for the association. 

nora, john's boss in the warehouse was there

as well as steve and nancy, our neighbors in gros ventre.  they work in the visitors centers in the park.

shadow, the dog, hung out and hoped for someone to drop some food for her

judy, randy and nora all live in jackson year round.  steve and nancy are seasonal and live in florida when they aren't traveling.
we have gotten together with this group a few times and enjoy ourselves


last night we drove down to a beautiful area about 60 miles south of jackson to have dinner with a couple that lived in the campground next door to us.  they don't work for the association anymore, but we have kept in touch with them. 
alycyn is a retired irs investigator and lee retired from the army as a special ops.  they own a home in star valley ranch.  their home sits in the woods and they get wildlife all the time.  their home is beautiful and cozy and relaxing.  it was hard to leave.
they have planted hundreds of seedlings in the front yard and have put out quite a few feeders for the birds and squirrels. 

john and lee relaxing on the back patio in the loungers

sad news - the baby owls that i posted about awhile back have officially flown the coop.
good news - they are hanging out in our area of the campground.

i discovered them a couple of nights ago by accident and was able to get a couple of pictures before the knucklehead guy that was visiting his mom who lives across from us, decided to walk right up to the babies and scare them away.
i saw them up in the trees and when i came back with the camera, they had moved down to the road behind the trailer.  
they call to each other from tree to tree.  now i listen for them and can hear them in the evening and the middle of the  night sometimes.
it's surprising to see them in our area because of the work being done during the week with heavy equipment.  it's really noisy and ugly over here, but i guess they stay over on the quieter side of our loop closer to the river and move when the workers go home.

the one on the left had hopped up on a log and was poking around for something.

the baby on the right was just sitting quietly catching bugs out of the air.

the one on the log was the first to see the knucklehead coming up behind me. 

he flew away first.

this one just spotted him coming around from behind a tree and promptly flew away

this post took forever to finish because as i was sitting here next to the open window, i could hear the owls calling to each other again.
plus, i lost internet a couple of times and had to sign in again.
i kept running out with the camera trying to find them and eventually saw one of the adults in a tree across from us. 
i could hear the babies, but they were further back in the trees closer to the river.
i was wearing slippers, so i couldn't go too far off the road to look for them.

the skies have been dark and stormy this evening.

while i was taking pictures, the sun peeked out just enough to light the tops of the trees and where the owl was sitting.

so that is that

our week

july 2010