Grand Canyon Polar Express Train Ride

You arrive in your jammies and hop on board with Santa Clause singing, hot choclate and all!. We are getting tickets today to a take the Polar Express Train from Williams and back.




If you have not entered my give away see the previous post!

100th Belated Post Giveaway, My Birthday & A New Future Obama!

1st prize: Custom made from Jill's Fabric all of her items are one of a kind. Here is a beautiful baby blanket with turquoise minke on one side and a retro hip pattern of flowers turquoise, green and blues. Finsished off in with a silver wavey trim.

2nd and 3rd prize winners will get something cool from the Grand Canyon!

Here is the blanket!







Contest to start Nov. 6-20th. Winners names will be drawn on Nov. 21st.











To participate, please leave a comment here and feel free to add any feedback for Jill about her new estsy store.

If you post on your blog about this giveaway you will be entered into the giveaway 3 times! So help me spread the word. Good luck and thank you for your friendship.

I will notify winners and send the prizes out. International visitors welcome to participate!

Views of the Canyon

At last we went up there the other day and spent some time at the rim. It is amazing to live 10 mins from the rim but rarely go there. In my defense I am terrified about having a 2.5 year old at the rim.

Here is a historic photo of the El Tovar Hotel at the rim and the next is today. They have some great food here.

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Depending on the time of year and day the canyon changes. The colors vary and the views intensify or recede.

There is an amazing California Condor program here. That has been fairly successful. The birds went from 20 pairs to more than 60 now. Interestingly they have found now that some birds are getting lead poisoning from eating remains left from hunters using lead bullets. There is a new movement to use unleaded shot when hunting out here now.

That was my contribution to anyone who needs a wine and cheese tidbit to throw out at your next party.

Landed and my 100th post

This is right outside of our living room window. Six cows, two with babies and one bull stopped for a nap the day before yesterday. So incredible to have them be so content so and so close. The male elk is buggeling in the mornings now and it is so weird to hear. At first I thought what a strange dog.




We have a lovely new house just a few minutes from the South Rim of the canyon. It is really beautiful and so many children his age to play with. We joined Music Together. A baby yoga class is available here and play groups! So much to do.

I will do a giveaway soon, I just have to get organized first!

Goodbye Chickens

We had to say goodbye to our chickens and send them to a new farm. They are moving from out one acre to an 80 acre spread with a pond. Which the duck, Lime, will love. But we were so sad to seem them go. No chickens allowed in the National Park at this point. Perhaps I should start a movement.

We also put our house up for sale! I buried a St Francis to see if we could get his help. With this market we will need it.

Little Birdies

Hard to see here, but here are some Black Throated Baby Gray Warblers.  As we were walking the rim trail we just by luck saw the mother feeding them.

Headed to Chi-Town for the 4th....not sure if I will have a chance to blog.  So have a Happy Fourth of July!

Summer Digs

The "Gov" started school. He likes it so much that he told me it was time to go to work mama!

Here is a shot of our humble abode.....




It is really nice and cool high of 76 today with low of 28!

We are heading West of the Pecos River

Grand Canyon for the summer! We are out there for a detail for 3 months. All is crazy now. We have a family vacation planned for next couple weeks, but I will post when we get back and settled in our new digs on the South Rim.