Mountains, bad weather, and two good national park sites have marked this leg of the trip. Rain accompanied us all day Sunday and it snowed on Sunday night in Helena. On Sunday we visited the C.M. Russell art museum in Great Falls. The most interesting aspect of the collection was the selection of letters to his friends which he had carefully illustrated.
Monday we enjoyed beans and peach cobbler prepared over a campfire, ranch style, at the Grant-Kohrs Ranch in Deer Lodge. We also toured the Big Hole Battlefield, one of the many sites where the US attacked the Nez Perce who would not give up their lands. It is a very sad site. Monday night Judy froze in a national forest campsite named Indian Trees; there was ice on the tent in the morning. The Indians stripped the bark of ponderosa pine to eat the inner cambium about 150 years ago.
We are now in a KOA in Glacier after spending several hours having a brake job. We ate huckleberries today, a local treat.
The Adventures of Super Grandpa: Grandpa has decided to do some archeology during this trip. On his first dig, he found the world's largest buffalo head skeleton. Manga (Grandma) was very proud of his find but decided it was too big for our condo in Easthampton so she gave it to the Montana State Museum.
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Well we celebrated Ken's birthday yesterday. Got Lynley back to school and are preparing to feed lasagna to the entire football team tomorrow! I could be the same amount of food as the Nez Perce tribe consumed in a week! Glad to see that Manga is keeping super grandpa in line! Hope you run into warmer weather soon. Our friends in Haiti are preparing for yet another hurricane! Their facilities were almost completely wiped out in Gustav! Look forward to the Algona outing.
I know what you were doing 20 years ago today! It is our (Joe & Bonnie) 20th anniversary! Thanks for getting us started 20 years ago.
We love reading your blog. I've never seen so many huge animal "statues" in my life!
Bonnie
Thomas' first day of school today. I think it went pretty well for him. Jack and David had good days, as well. David is not sure about his new aide, so he worked alone today. That may be a good thing. We'll see. FMCC starts tomorrow and then maybe Greg will feel like there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Take care!
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