This past week we have been mushroom hunting, exploring places to pan/sluice for gold, watching the snow disappear and checking out the stream/creek flows! We are still experiencing cell phone reception and Internet issues, we are hopeful that come August, things will be back to normal.
One morning we were up at 4am to access the Internet to pay bills and balance bank accounts. Whew, that is definitely dedication. We tried the Rest Area up the road and couldn't get reception on the Jet pack for our secured Internet --- trying not to sound whiney but, hey, it isn't fun to get up that early or travel 5 miles to try to get a signal 😧 --- now for the fun stuff!!
Here's a few pics I captured along the way this past week of the FUN activities (or some of them came from Mickey as I didn't take my camera with me : (
Snow melt is disappearing fast -- don't know if it will be totally gone by end of summer, but close!
Here's the Bolete mushroom find -- Brad was the winner with 8-10, Darrel in next at 4 or so, Mickey with 3 or 4 and Susan had 2.... but they were good eating.
Here's the 3 of us showing our mushroom find.
I took a Diet Coke break and Mickey capture the pic with the yellow wildflowers!
We headed up to Big Meadows lake to hunt for the mushrooms, I think we found one or two but I happened to see a Doe cooling herself under a outcropping, hidden by the foliage. We didn't catch her head but you can see her body in the upper left corner -- she didn't seem alarmed that we stopped on the road to watch her.
One day later in the week, we headed up Embargo/Seitz creeks to see if we could find mushrooms at the headwaters, I actually was the winner that day, finding the one Bolete mushroom.
The water is still running but the flow has slowed considerably. We traveled on down looking at the Agate field, eating lunch and then on to Seitz where the water was too low for sluicing so we headed to Embargo Creek to check it out.
Embargo was down enough to get close to the water, I didn't take any photos but we spent the afternoon working the sluices. It was difficult water flow, heavy in areas and slow in spots. Called it a day and headed home around 5pm.
So that about catches us up for the week. It has warmed up here around 84 degrees during the day, next week predicts those pop up showers each afternoon. I know the midwest folks are suffering hotter temps and more humidity so we are lucky to have the dryer climate and cool nights when the sun drops!
Better wrap up but here's a fun shot of Brad and Archie checking out the UTV -- I happened to see them hanging out one afternoon.
Archie is interesting to walk (yes, he is leash broke for a cat) -- he finds a spot and lays down so you get to stand there until he decides to move on 😝 --he has us all trained to his ways!
So until the next time, thanks for reading, sending blessing and love to all,
Susan & Darrel
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