and as it always happens we eventually had to leave to head back to Idaho. Still, I really enjoyed sitting out on the deck in the mornings having my coffee and listening to the birds singing. You really have to enjoy the little things in life since you never know how long you are going to be here. Even though Karen and I worked hard every day we still had time for the little things. Life is good!
Boy, we have been busy beavers around or new house. We spent the first week there working on the kitchen cabinets, re-staining and varnishing so we could start using the shelf space. After that we decided that getting the tractor down from Karen's property on the hill was a priority so we could use the mower on the weeds that were getting very tall. That turned out to be a real 'Green Acres' moment so we had to take pictures of the process.
So all this work is getting us to where we will be able to move in on the 19th of July. Right now we are over at Tracey's for Alisha and Laura's graduations and then we will have another week to work on our house before we head back to Idaho. There is still lot's of stuff to do and getting the bat population relocated will be our next project. We have some bat houses that we are going to put up before we evict them from our attic so they have a place to go. We definitely want to keep those guys around for the bug control. Tomorrow we head back to Greenville and no internet service again so this might be my last blog entry until we get back to Idaho unless we get down to the library. Anyway, things are going great and we are loving this new place!
Tomorrow morning we are headed back to Greenville with a trailer full of stuff. We sign the papers on our house on Thursday so we will be getting back on Wednesday afternoon. Looks like the weather is going to continue wet and cool so the trailer is totally covered and cinched down to keep everything dry. Karen's trailer is a big one and it really holds a lot of stuff as you might be able to tell from the picture. I have a couple of extra tarps on it for the night in case it rains but those are coming off before we leave. Moving is such a pain but a necessary evil since we priced having a moving company come and move us and the cost for that was so much we couldn't justify it. My rough figures tell me that we can move ourselves for about one third of what it would cost to have someone else do it. It is a lot of work and we do have to rely on friends for help but so far we are getting it done. I have no doubt that we will get it all done without much problem and even get a little exercise in the process.
We just got back from Logan today. Yesterday we had a great Mother's Day hike up to the Wind Cave. We were going to go to Old Ephraim's grave but there is still a lot of snow up there so we decided to stay a little lower in the mountains. 
we saw lots of people on the trail. The weather probably had something to do with it too since it was nice and warm and sunny most of the day.
This morning we are leaving for Logan Utah for Karen's Mother's Day hike with Krista and her family. Last year we had a great hike up in the Logan Canyon and this year we are heading back up there again. Krista wanted me to choose the destination since I spent a week riding my bike up there last year while she and her mother were in Alaska. My choice was out toward Old Ephraim's Grave which is the grave of a huge grizzly bear that was killed there back in the early part of the 1900's. This bear was the largest ever recorded and the head is somewhere in the Smithsonian in Washington DC. I tried to find it last year when we were there but I never could. Here is the plaque that commemorates the spot where he was killed. Kind of sad in a way but the inevitable result of the interaction between people and wild things.
