I have received quite a few letters from people commenting on how much they would love to be in Yellowstone living and working....or at least for an extended visit. I am very lucky to live and work here and to have the opportunity to experience and see all that I do . I 'live' Yellowstone everyday and I try to never take it for granted. I wish that everyone could be and do what they love.
And in my thrilling and exciting Yellowstone life I mopped the floor today. Yup, even here the mundane can creep in. But the whole time I was mopping I was thinking about the Adventure Store opening for the season tomorrow afternoon at 1:00. So that newly mopped floor of mine does have some excitement for me. Guests will come through that door this weekend with fun and fascinating stories, dreams of seeing a grizzly, eyes as big a saucers as they talk about the bison in the road, and memories of their trip to Yellowstone.
Besides my memory of floor mopping on April 15 I will also remember this day as the one where I saw my second grizzly bear for 2010. I went for my Hayden Valley drive after dinner and spotted a small brown dot across the river by a small thermal feature on the south side of Hayden. It was too small to be a bison and from how it moved I knew I was looking at a grizzly. I didn't have my binoculars with so I looked through my lens of my camera and confirmed I was indeed looking at a grizzly. Robert, Wanda, Jay and Cassandra had left behind me so after watching for awhile I turned around and met them at a pullout and brought them back to the area so they too could see him.
On my return to Canyon I stopped to watch a coyote cross the road in front of me and then open his mouth for a wide yawn. I guess it was one busy day for that little coyote, too.
And in my thrilling and exciting Yellowstone life I mopped the floor today. Yup, even here the mundane can creep in. But the whole time I was mopping I was thinking about the Adventure Store opening for the season tomorrow afternoon at 1:00. So that newly mopped floor of mine does have some excitement for me. Guests will come through that door this weekend with fun and fascinating stories, dreams of seeing a grizzly, eyes as big a saucers as they talk about the bison in the road, and memories of their trip to Yellowstone.
Besides my memory of floor mopping on April 15 I will also remember this day as the one where I saw my second grizzly bear for 2010. I went for my Hayden Valley drive after dinner and spotted a small brown dot across the river by a small thermal feature on the south side of Hayden. It was too small to be a bison and from how it moved I knew I was looking at a grizzly. I didn't have my binoculars with so I looked through my lens of my camera and confirmed I was indeed looking at a grizzly. Robert, Wanda, Jay and Cassandra had left behind me so after watching for awhile I turned around and met them at a pullout and brought them back to the area so they too could see him.
On my return to Canyon I stopped to watch a coyote cross the road in front of me and then open his mouth for a wide yawn. I guess it was one busy day for that little coyote, too.
