Reese the Coffee dog and other tails

Pictures to be added once I am at a more stable Internet connection

December 19

Reese the Coffee dog

Well we were driving to the cabin in Polaris and decided to stop in a lovely little community called Silver Star. It has a little antique shop that Joe and I dropped in to see if any bargains were available. Alas there were not, darn the people who know what things are worth.

But while stopped Reese got into the Coffee. And I'm not talking the coffee in liquid form, but the coffee in the ground form. She ate a 12 ounce (340 grams for my foreign readers) bag of coffee grounds. All I can say is thank goodness they were decaf beans.

Needless to say she was in the shit house as there was coffee grounds everywhere in the back of the car. I had taken care to put the frozen meat and stuff in the glove box to keep her away from it, but did not imagine that she would go after the coffee.

Lucky for us there is a Safeway in Dillon that we could replenish Joe's coffee stock.

December 20

Chilly day.

Well we are at the cabin and enjoying the solitude. Lots of good snow coming down and a great day to stay inside and read books, watch movies and such.

No TV at the cabin so it is a good thing that I have digitized a couple hundred movies onto my hard drive and can watch them. Pleasantville, Nicholas & Alexandrea, 13 days, Beautiful Mind and of course episodes of the Simpsons.

The Simpsons is the souce of all wisdom in the world, if you cannot find a Simpsons analogy to cover just about anything you are not well versed in Simpsonian, and should watch more carefully.

December 21

Driving around

With Maverick Mountain ski area not open yet we decided to go driving around. Joe and I loaded up the kids into the Escape and away we went.

There is a nice loop to do from Polaris. You drive out to the highway then take a right and head towards Jackson Montana, home of Jackson hot springs. Then up to Wisdom where you take a right and head over to Wise River for lunch at the H&J.

There is a summer road between Polaris and Wise River, but being that it is not summer it is not open. So we had to go the round about way. Along the way we got to see lots of open ground, and cattle up the wazoo. And of course we stopped at the air field just outside of Wisdom to let the kids out to frolic.