More trip continued.......

On the second full day at the Black hills we went into the Black hills national park and took the Wildlife drive. That was the best and most relaxing part of the trip. We spent most of the day driving threw that part of the national part, we stopped and saw the wolf people with the 2 wolfs, very impressive, its a must see. They are part of an organization that works on preserving the artic wolf and timber wolf. We sat and talke to the owner for along time, the wolfs really dont like new people coming in and were a bit nervious at start but settled down after we sat down. They raised the two wolves from pups and have a pix record of them growing up, that was a lot of fun.

As we went threw the park we saw buffalo, pronghorn deer, and praire dog. Of course the p.dogs were my favorites. We had beautiful weather for the ride the whole day. We stoped at stream and a small lake to walk around and stretch. It was just so relaxing of a day. On our way back to the campsite we stopped at a yard sale, yep cant pass them by. We also stopped and got some fire wood from where the forestry had cleared out dead wood and piled it up, we got some strange looks but I figured it was helping them get rid of unwanted wood.They have had a few nasty fires there and you can still see the after math of the fires years later. There was alot of new baby trees only about 3 foot tall but the forest is making a come back.

We had a nice camp fire and nice cooked meal and turn in for the night, it was much warmer that night and was going to be a warmer day for our drive home.

On our way home we went threw part of the badlands, it was very green, greener than I had remembered it, we saw a few animals but not like when we went threw the black hill park.

It was such a lovly few days but it was nice to get home to my own bed, sleeping on the ground is for the younger people for sure.

We have had over 2 inches of rain since we have been home so for the last 2 weeks we have had like 4 1/2 inches of rain. Its time to mow again and very thing here is so very green. The garden is sprouted up like crazy and the corn is like 2 inches tall already. The weather has been a bit chilly here also which is nice because I know it going to get hot before we know it.

I am glad to be back to sew also, Im working on a cat quilt, and the around the world quilt for the couch.

We are needing to get working back on the bedroom again, we were sidetracked with the outside work that stilll so much needs to be done. Im sure it will still be there when we get around to cutting the trees and such.

Well I will write more later ...........I have many pix to add from the trip but I will wate to get the film devoloped to add those pix.