Tagged With: Wyoming
Home is Where We are.
I’ve left Wyoming, my birth place and where I grew up, “permanently”three times in my life. The first – at 18 years old when I joined the Navy. The second when Karl and I moved to California. The third time just seven months ago when we moved to the Virgin Islands. Based on the previous … Continue reading
The Ferris-Haggarty Mine
Last Sunday, I got to go to one of my favorite places in the world – the ghost town of Dillon and the Ferris-Haggarty Mine. If you’ve looked at the pictures in my gallery on this website, or if you’ve read Mountain Time and/or Peaks and Valleys (which I hope you have!), then you know … Continue reading
Oh Hail!
Kansas is known for its tornadoes, Florida for hurricanes… Every place has its perils I suppose. It isn’t a surprise to anyone in southeastern Wyoming when it rains and hails. Hail is a summer fact of life here. Usually, the hail is pea-sized, and you know it is coming because the clouds in the sky … Continue reading
Grow where you are planted.
In my last post I didn’t tell you that when we came back to town from camping with the grand girls and Hillary, we just left our camper there so we could go back up. We left on Tuesday with the intent of staying a week. On Thursday, two friends came up (love you, Branda … Continue reading
Camping…Yes!
I am so blessed. I’ve already told you our son, Sam came out for my retirement party and that we went to Michigan and spent time with our middle daughter, Amy and her family. This week, we had a fun visit from our oldest daughter, Hillary and her two girls. We took them camping – … Continue reading
God’s Infinite Variety
As a native of Wyoming I have an in-grown appreciation for the beauty of that state. I love the wild freeness of the prairies. Sagebrush dotted rolling hills complete with antelope are beautiful to me. Of course, I love Wyoming’s mountains. As a native, I don’t actually count the Tetons and Jackson. Those are beautiful … Continue reading
Ground Hog’s Day!
I love Ground Hog’s Day. The modern iteration of it is silly and fun, and I embrace it with enthusiasm. I love the idea of a furry little critter poking his head out and foretelling the weather. Especially when educated higher beings seem to take foretelling the weather so seriously yet they turn out wrong … Continue reading
A New Year
One of the great things about being a teacher is that there are definite beginnings and endings. Summer ended when we flew home from our island back to Wyoming to start a new school year. While I didn’t feel ready to be back to school, the process of unpacking my room,putting up bulletin boards, making … Continue reading
I was robbed!
The snow is melting. The sun came out today and miraculously the prairie has lost the eight inches of cold white that had covered it. The larger drifts have shrunk, now there are only about two to three feet of snow in front of the house, covering most of the driveway. It sounds as if my hopeful … Continue reading
The foulest word in the English language – should
I’ve been a bit under the weather lately, and when the weather here has been below 10 degrees with a wicked wind, that seems a low place to be. It is February 1st, and I’ve already met my insurance deductable for the year. I’ve been prodded and poked, and the bottom line is that there isn’t … Continue reading
