Wildlife and Regular Life

Hello everyone! It's been a busy week. Jenny arrived from Spokane on Sunday afternoon. On Monday, the 4th it was well over 100F so we didn't want to do anything outside. We opted to take her to the Drive Thru Wildlife Safari Park. The wolves and bears were hiding somewhere cool, but other animals were happy to show themselves to us.

A male elk posed for us. Another is laying down as you can see by the rack on lower left in the photo.

A female and a few more male elk.  All were taking advantage of the shade.

Here is a young guy resting in the shade too.

The pelicans were enjoying swimming around in the presumably cool pond.

These guys were all fishing together just before I snapped the picture. 

This heron definitely looked as if he was posing for us.

These two were taking advantage of the lunch buffett. A few more were hiking at top speed down the road to get there share but I accidentally deleted their photo.

The buffalo, or bison, were taken turns wading in the pond and then...

they would roll in the dirt to keep the insects away.

It was a lot of fun driving through with Jenny. We also drove through the State Park that we like to camp at. We had lunch with Brad, Mandy, Piper and Brad's Dad, Dennis, at their house. Brad is in the process of replacing their decking with the permanent decking, trex deck. It makes it where there is no upkeep whatsoever.  That evening we went out to dinner at an Italian restaurant. The food was a bit disappointing but we had a great time visiting. The next morning Jenny left before 5:30 a.m. and was almost in Pennsylvania by nightfall. Today she picked up a friend in New York and they're driving to Maine for a lobster dinner. She does love to drive.

I'm still crocheting on the "Modern Granny Rectangle Blanket". It's coming along but each round is taking a long time now. Its big enough for our queen size bed so I'm just going to do one more series of the different colors and then a border of some sort. I do like the way it's turning out.

Here's my Piper with a self portrait. She said the emojis are supposed to tell you something about you.

Here is the picture she took of me. :-) You can see just how short my hair is here and I love it like that.

Jenny was riding in the front seat with Dennis so she could see the animals better. She put Zoey to sleep while petting her. She is such a sweet puppy. I can't imagine not having her now.

We finally started pushing the RV dealership about our reclining chairs for our camper. We bought it in January and it was supposed to have the "theater seating" which are two recliners. Instead it had a sofa sleeper.  We've been very patient while the dealers service dept. promised them in February, then April and then June. We were called yesterday and they said another 8 weeks. They also were very rude about it and said they couldn't do anything else for us and wouldn't take one out of a camper on the lot. That was it. We drove straight to the dealership and the actual salesman who we bought it from met us at the door. He didn't remember us at all until Dennis reminded him. Long story short, we paid cash for the brand new camper in January. They would like us to buy from them again. They had a recliner available for us today and will install it next Wednesday. I think that is crazy. Sales apparently cares. Service doesn't.  We really needed the recliners for my back as we're leaving for a 3 week trip to the Black Hills, Montana and Spokane in a couple of weeks. I have to have a recliner for my back issues.

All is well that ends well. I'm looking forward to seeing it in the camper and getting it all packed up for the trip. We have someone taking care of the house and plants. The teenage boy across the street will mow for us. And we get to see our friends soon.

Take care and I'll be back again soon. Sorry about all of the photos, but I thought you would like to see the animals at the park.

Blessings and love,
Betsy