Barbecue and more animals

After a day working on course, Elder Simonsen invited us to a barbecue.  He brought up his large barbecue, and invites a few people to bring their own meat and anything else you might have like a pot luck.  

This evening was quite enjoyable.  After dinner, we got out all the fire pits and sat around telling stories, including Chuck stories!  Elder Powell brought his guitar out and sang some pretty funny songs!  We had a great big bull moose join us in the distance.  It was a great evening and only the cold chased us back to our RVs.

Last year about half way down the parkway, was a large nest with a red tailed hawk.  This year, an owl mother decided to call it home until her 3 young ones were old enough to fly.  We took the binoculars down to see, it was awesome!  Elder Moretti has a camera with a big lens and he shared this picture with me.

We had a robin trying to build a nest in the king pin of our 5th wheel.  We got rid of it at least 3 times and finally decided to let it be.  She is sitting on the nest now, and I'm sure we will have baby birds soon.

Our friends tell us this is a rock chuck.  Interesting looking animal.  We sure have seen a diversity of animals this year.