Sunrise from last year.

I was going through my pictures looking for a picture of the front of the house, and I came across this picture from August 2007. I don't think that I had put this picture on the blog, so here it is.

This is the view from the deck.

We have Grass.

Last August I was moving dirt and trying to put the lawn back together.

After working through September and October I have most of the dirt moved and grass is growing.

Columbus Day Weekend at Teaticket

We spent last weekend at the Teaticket house. It was a beautiful for all three days. We road bikes to Woods Hole and we road on the Canal bike path. This picture is shows some of the group resting after the long ride.

We went kayaking all three days, Did I tell you it was warm for the weekend.

The last picture show the group on the Knob.

Monitoring the Boat Traffic

For my birthday this year Ben got me a wild life camera. You are suppose to mount the camera to a tree where wild life might show up, and the camera will take a picture when they do. I decided that we have limited wild life (other than birds this year) so I was going to monitor the boat traffic. The boats go by the dock very close and very fast. If I could get some pictures, maybe I could get someone to make the boaters slow down.

I mounted the camera to a tree by the lake.
I got a lot of pictures of myself, setting up the irrigation pump every morning.

All of the pictures of fast boats only included the wake!

I did get one picture of a boat.

Deadwood South Dakota

We went visit Deadwood, Deadwood has been listed as a national historic landmark The folks in Deadwood asked the South Dakota government to let them have gambling in town, so they could raise money to restore the town. There are slot machines on the first floor of almost every building on main street, and a restaurant on the second floor We visited boot hill in Deadwood, to see Will Bill Hickock and Calamity Jane's graves. This was not the original boot hill or the original graves, the cemetery was move to make room for the town, but the town play it up anyway.

We also saw Wild Bill, He wanders around Deadwood and gets shot 4 times a day in Nuttal & Mann's Saloon No.10. This wasn't the original location for the No. 10 Saloon, or the shooing, they move location of the saloon when they rebuild the town after a fire.

Black Hills wildlife

There was a lot of wildlife in the Black Hills. He is a few of the pictures, First is the back side of a deer.
Linda's favorite a prairie dog. We saw a number of prairie dog towns.

And Bison. Most of the bison had been rounded up to be branded and some of them were going to be sold.

We also visited the Badlands

The Badlands were interesting, but the hiking was bad. The trails and paths were washed out. I think that is why it is called the Badlands.

After the Badlands we stopped at Wall Drugs. Wall Drug was a small drug store in Wall, South Dakota in 1931. The owner used to sit on the porch and watch the cars heading to Rapid City (60 miles west) or to Sioux Falls (293 miles east). At his wife's suggestion he put up a sign on the road advertising free ice water. Before he got back to the drug store, the store had filled up with people drinking free ice water and buying ice cream. Now there are signs from one end of South Dakota to the other and the store has expanded to cover at least an acre, selling tourist stuff.