Summer Is Here!

Summer has made it's way back into the limelight and that is good news for the warm weather folks like me who love 90+ degree days. Don't get me wrong, I like those cold winter days too but there has to be a balance of cold and hot to get the full effect of the seasons.

For our first day of summer we did what we always do....we went geocaching. We found #1293 and we are excited to get to 1300 in the next week or so. During our trip yesterday we ventured East of town, right near the Garnet ghost town that we visited last year in June. This time we stopped to check out the view from the scenic overlook and find the geocache that was located there. What a great view from up there! Looking northwest, the picture shows the Blackfoot Valley and in the far distance, almost out of view, the Mission Mountains. To get an understanding of how far away that is, the Mission Mountains are north of Missoula somewhere in the neighborhood of 25-30 miles. When I took this picture we were 30 miles east of town, and the mountains are around 45 miles away. However, that's a bad picture to view them, so here's the close up.

Ok, so the 4 megapixel camera really doesn't do justice to the view but take my word for it, and we can all pretend like it's something amazing.

And last night, Laura's mom made it into town. Yes, a weekend with my mother-in-law! We are BOTH actually very excited to have her in town - it's her first visit to see us since we moved to Missoula almost two years ago. I joke that she could have picked a better time to come visit because this Sunday is our two year wedding anniversary - believe it or not.

In all seriousness though, this is about the best time to come since we will be in Nebraska the next two weekends and then we get into fire season by mid-July so things get rather smoky and disgusting by mid-summer.

With that in mind, I have a busy weekend ahead of me and a busier week getting ready for another trip back to Nebraska. Although this trip will be a few days longer and we should get a little more rest, no trip is quite long enough it seems. Have a great weekend, I know mine will be eventful. Until again

-=Nolan=-