{{{YAWN}}}

I have been sleepy allll daaaay looooong.

Maybe it's this weather....we have switched

back from dry and sunny to wet and grey

and it is difficult for me to get motivated.

Of course, it doesn't help that it is still

light out at 11:00 pm, gets dark for about

4 hours and then it is light again at 3:00 am.

We tried closing the blinds all the way, but

then we slept in until 8:00 am--not good!

So far the best solution is to close the blinds

about halfway, then the light creeps in about

6:00 am. Now if we could just do something

about the songbird chorus at 3:30 am...

My husband went out fishing today and had

a great (but very wet and chilly) time. The

Kings are really hitting right now and he

was able to keep 2:

He looks a little shell-shocked because he

got pretty cold out there. It rained non-stop

the entire time out in the boat and the wind

really made it cold.

Some days you go out in the boat and don't really

catch anything or see any wildlife. Today was a

viewing day! The picture below shows a sow

and 3 cubs walking along the beach. I loaded

it large sized, so hopefully you can click it and

see them. My husband said the sow was up on

her hind legs looking at the boat and then the

cubs stood up next to her and watched her

closely until she gave the signal to run into

the woods.

The next thing he spotted was a deer swimming in the

water. This is common here; lots of animals swim

between the hundreds of small islands. Our neighbor

came upon a large bear swimming and said it was

really something to see such a large animal swimming

in the water. Hopefully you can click these pictures

and make them larger to see the deer in the water.

The last set of pictures were taken here in town. See

the little fuzzy wuzzy fella in the middle climbing over

the fence? That is why my younger daughter doesn't walk

home from babysitting at the neighbor's this time of year.

Is it bad when the wildlife is bigger than your car?