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Miscellaneous Monday…NEW stuff i gotta share

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Happy Monday! I’m updating my National Parks bucket list. We’re at 38 out of 63. We visited Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota recently. Also, North Dakota is a NEW state for us… another state, another sticker on the side of our RV!

We saw wild horses, bison, and prairie dogs. I didn’t even notice this little prairie dog (front and center) until I uploaded this photo.

In other NEWs, we visited the world’s shortest river. The Roe River in Great Falls, Montana, is said to be the world’s shortest river. We were riding our bikes on the River’s Edge trail, and while we were stopped at Giant Springs, we chatted with a gentleman who told us that his brother had to get lawyers involved to have the Roe River designated as the shortest river. Giant Springs flows 201 feet and then joins the Missouri River. That’s pretty short! The Giant Springs State Park is very near the Lewis & Clark Interpretive Center that we also visited (on a different day). It was great to learn NEW things!

Also, I’m updating my waterfalls bucket list. While up visiting Banff, Canada, we hiked the Johnston Canyon trail. It was great! It has an upper falls and a lower falls, but there were a few more unnamed falls along the trail too.

We’ve been keeping our retirement active. Our favorites are playing pickleball, riding our bikes, and hiking to waterfalls. We’re blessed to have our RV to travel to NEW and very beautiful places!

I hope you have a great day and get to learn or do something NEW today! Take care!

Miscellaneous Monday…NEW stuff i gotta share

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Happy Monday! It’s been a while since I brain-dumped some miscellaneous NEW stuff, so here goes.

Miscellany #1: It was fun to see some wildlife on our hikes in Grand Tetons National Park. There were quite a few of these little guys running around! A grandpa pointed to one and asked his grandson if he thought that one was Alvin, Simon, or Theodore. I really doubt the little boy knew what his grandpa was talking about! Haha!

This guy wasn’t fazed at all by the attention he was getting!

Look very close. That’s a bear across the lake. I need a better zoom lens!!!

Thanks to Google, I believe this is a Western Tanager. Again…Santa, I need a zoom lens for Christmas! Haha!

AND, what do you think of this “wildlife”?!? He (or she) is livin’ the life!

Miscellany #2: What I’ve been reading lately. I’ve already hit my GoodReads 2023 Reading Challenge goal (my goal was 52 books, and I’m already at 62…). So I think for the last part of this year, I’ll make a goal to read a book from every genre that GoodReads list on its browse page. I figure that’s one way to read NEW and different material (I hope to learn LOTS of NEW stuff!). Here’s the genre list.

AND lastly, miscellany #3. I learned something NEW recently. I showed my friend at work my photo from the Tetons and she taught me that these yellow flowers that were everywhere are called Mule Ears. She had been to Colorado that same weekend and noticed a lot of them there too! Here’s more from our trip to Black Canyon of the Gunnison National Park. I’m taking her word for it (so I hope she’s correct). It’ll be an easy name to remember (I hope).

That’s it for today’s NEW miscellaneous stuff. Have a great day and I hope you do or learn something NEW today!