Yes even more moments of South Dakota :)

 A most beautiful sculpture of a bison at the falls in Sioux Falls

 Sheep were the second animals to greet us.  The Prairie Dog was the first.

 Our favorite camp site in the Badlands.  The wind never disappoints. That is the wind not a bend in the tent or a balloon tent.

 Last time at the Badlands the Bison gave me a pair of sunglasses on a Bison patty.  This year they blessed my drawings, by taking one of my pens by the winds and landing it on a patty.  Yes, this really happened. 

 'nough said!!

 Look at this quaint shapeless bison.  Adorable.

 This not so little friend joined us one night by the lantern.  

 Look closely, there is a huge billed up of mud around sandals.  There was a HUGE storm the second night.  The tent folded in on us from the wind.  It rained in on us the entire time.  After the lightning and thunder past and it was just rain, the children went into car to sleep as dry as they could the remainder of the night. 

 I love camping....

 Even little Bingers!

 Cora in the AM after the storm.

 The boys after the storm.

 Beauty. 

 Amazing.

 Stunning.

Even my Kirsten doll got to come with and get a picture on this creepy bison :) K~

What is it about the buffalo?

I have been asked why I love the bison so much.  I can't really put it in words.  To me, it appears obvious.  They are majestic creatures that demand respect and awe.  They are the largest existing land animal in North America.  I also love their scientific names: Bison bison bison (plains bison) and Bison bison athabascae (wood bison).  They are second to only the Asian water buffalo as the largest bovid on earth and we have them right here!! Man!  I also like how untamed they are, how fences can't keep them in.  Respect is obvious.  I was lucky to get a bit of wild bison hair from a wallow.  I have it protected in a display case.  It's just a small clump, but it is beautiful.  I kept the grasses that insisted to remain attached and will put it along side my photographs.  Next year I will bring the proper materials to get a hoof print cast. K~

South Dakota bound

Going to the Badlands to see all my Bison!! :)

K~

The car is now scrap metal.

1/2 way to the scrap place, I needed my inhaler.  K~

Thinking too hard

This would describe the way I often look at things.  I just simply can't pick up a form and fill it in.  I often pick away at it and find something that irritates me.  Or I find something that I question about the question.  The other night at work for example I was cleaning the turtles as I often do. We have new sheets that were created by the vets.  There is a lot asked of us.  And I think that's just fine.  As I go through them, it's clear that some are reading them and some aren't.  So on one particular form the vet asks us to count the # of fish left before cleaning it.  They want to know what if anything the turtle is eating.  Sounds easy so I do this and I log it.  One thing to know, the AM crew both cleans and feeds. The PM crew ONLY cleans.  So I am looking over the turtles sheet and noticing that the AM people are writing that they are finding 0 fish.  Pausing, I get a little giggly... um.. if PM is not feeding there... would... be... no... fish??? so 0. right? These are things that I find very enjoyable.  K~

Oh LSP

 I could have used you to help me

communicate over the past few days.

K~

de-cluttering/organizing/sorting

Well I have been working hard since January on my house.  I have to say that with all the additional items from my in-law's house being added in April and May, I think that there has been progress......

( I am just going to let that float there for a while)

Now the reality, I have a really hard time with sorting, organizing and getting rid of some things.  So my pace has slowed some, but I am embracing my progress which has been made.  I am accepting my slower pace and moving forward.

K~

A bit of Gull Lake's beginning ~ so much more to come

 Stuck in a traffic jam!

 "sleeping" probably working out some homework yet unfinished.

 Sam sleeping like an angel!

 David so so proud of making his own "easy mac"

A wild life rehabers life is never on vacation.  Me saving a baby bird.  Still there in the morning, so far so good!  K~