Yup, Them're Alligators

Alligators, in Idaho. Go figure.

Don't worry, they live in a hot spring surrounded by chain link, and can't live if they aren't in that warm environment. (Whew!)

More Geocaching!

This is a picture of the cache called "Steelhead View". It's a puzzle cache, so you have to figure out the clues before you can actually get the correct coordinates to the hiding spot. It's named Steelhead view because it is across the river from the Niagara Springs Steelhead Hatchery.

Here's Jerry at our second try for "Niharts Fountain of Youth." Our GPS's were telling us where it was, but we didn't believe them. Silly us. We finally found it just where it was supposed to be. Where it's supposed to be is NOT where Jerry's looking in this picture!

What's the Poopy Tractor Doing in the Sink?

That's the question for the day. Yes, there's a poopy tractor in my kitchen sink.

Nolan generally plays pretty well by himself. The only time you have to really worry is when it gets quiet. Today I realized it had gotten quiet when Nolan was playing in his room. Normally, his room is pretty noisy, because he has a hardwood floor and lots of plastic toy tools.

I ventured into his room to see a totally naked toddler with his diaper on the floor very carefully open and balanced. He was just as very carefully picking poop pellets out of his diaper and packing them into the bucket of his front-end-loader toy tractor. I managed to get there AFTER the bucket was full, and he'd started on the radiator.

Everyone should have to try to remove poop from the nooks and crannies of a plastic tractor radiator while your little boy screams BROKEN BROKEN BROKEN! Thank goodness for "Choc-choc" to distract him...Said tractor is waiting patiently for the dishwasher's sanitize cycle.

Flowers in the yard

These pictures are of some flowers that live in my new lawn. There are hundreds of them. They are about the size of a dime.

House Selling Update

The house is sold! At least, it's sold on paper. The new owners still need to close Escrow. But yay! We were quite impressed with our realtor. He listed the house on a Tuesday, showed in Wednesday, and had the offer Thursday. We counteroffered, and they signed the counteroffer the next Tuesday.

One week to sell a house. Not bad.