In Island Park!

Long story short...we bought a restaurant/store/bar in Island Park. I am so happy to be back. Come and visit, we are on the Yale-Kilgore road, 5 miles west of Elk Creek. The kids have loved seeing so many animals and I have loved them but especially the wild flowers.

Yesterday we took a drive up Sawtelle Peak and I couldn't believe the flowers. I counted 34 including my favorite Shooting star and there were lots more. Then we drove up to West Yellowstone and helped Joshua shop for birthday presents. He will be 11 tomorrow.

We have had lots of bear activity, Black bear and also Grizzly. Sad thing is that a fed bear is a dead bear. Lots of campers leave their stuff out and so I have been chaining the doors of our dumpster down and encouraging campers to use it. On Wednesdays the dump is closed and then there is no other place to put it. Lots of people are carrying bear spray and I notice that it is more the locals than the tourists. We have also seen lots of elk, deer, a fox carrying his squirrel dinner and wolves.

This is Heaven, I love this place. Gary has been teaching Caleb to fly fish and everybody has been worm fishing. Today Gary is down in the valley seeing patients but he can hardly wait to get back up here. I don't blame him...lol.