Only in Idaho & update

Signs of spring in Idaho, the truck is being filled with seed potatoes.  Video is boring and short.  If you look closely, you can see the spuds shoot off the conveyor belt for 6 seconds.  I don't know where they take these spuds because the fields adjacent to the cellars are covered with snow.

Spring is rapidly and unexpectedly approaching.  On this date last year, it was 4 degrees and we had a five foot drift of snow outside our house.  Today, the bike path is melted out, it's 45 degrees and the snow drift is a mere 2+ feet deep and disappearing by the minute.

Below you'll find some fun Only in Idaho kind of stuff.

I recently and temporarily upped my HC for a couple of weeks and it's done wonders for me.  I am having fewer bad days and my body aches much less.  At the end of the day, I'm not generally dead tired.  Definitely a nice change from the last month of progressively worsening fatigue, lethargy, pain and exhaustion.  I'm feeling better just in time for a planned 48 hours out of the spring hell hole of Teton Valley.  Paul and I are headed down to Antelope Island in the Great Salt Lake to camp, run a race and then go out to eat.  My training's been lackluster but I'm sure once I get out on to the trails in shorts and a short sleeve shirt, I will be feeling good and having fun.

The driveway at the ranch, full of Salty the horse poo.  He seems to think this driveway is his toilet.  

Travis' ice sculpture is melting.

The dead, bloated moose in the pond is looking mangy.  Pretty soon, he's going to stink.  

It's a wonder this snowmachine stays on the bed of the truck.  Look how far it hangs off.

Remember in the last post where I kept thinking the tiny lids were dimes.  Well, I was curious about how many lids there were so I picked them up.  The snow has melted so much in the last couple of days that it exposed all the bottles of booze that went with the tiny lids.  Someone definitely has a littering problem and a drinking problem to throw all of these bottles by the road!  I brought them home and will recycle them.

This is some Only in Idaho litter.  It's Teton Potato Vodka!!!

Things that look like money

As some of you might know, I love to find money any time, any place and any denomination.  I haven't found any money lately BUT I have found a lot of junk that catches my eye and fools me!

A can lid.  It would have been a very large coin if it had been a coin.

A bullet shell glints in the light like a penny.

Beer cap looks like a quarter.

Airplane booze bottle caps look like dimes.  There are tons of these at the corner of 700 S and 50 W.  Someone has a problem.

This one always gets me.  It's some kind of survey marker in the road.  I ALWAYS think I've hit the mother load (50 cent piece or dollar) when I see these.

Boat plug looks like a quarter. 

Yesterday

A partial view of the Teton Range from Pine Creek Pass and a nice, wide, muddy shoulder.  YAY!

Yesterday was finally a good day.  I've been feeling rotten for a week or so now.  Mostly due to some stress I'm having with my son and not upping my meds for it.  I asked for Wanda's advice and she suggested upping my HC.  I did up it and I'm quite glad I did.  The change was immediate and noticeable.  I went from feeling sulky, sore and ridiculously fatigued to feeling human.

Anyhoo...I ran up and down Pine Creek Pass yesterday.  It was a beautiful day and the sun poked out.  We had rain and warm temperatures for a week and the snow has melted an incredible amount.  Melted snow on the road side means exposed treasures!  My next post will be one called "Things that look like money".  Yesterday I found:  no money, a dead, mummified puppy with no legs (gross but compelling to look at), a femur and knee cap with no other body parts, 2 Spanish music CDs, a bottle of Nexium and a big car magnet, lots of beer bottles and cigarette butts.

Some pictures from yesterday...

Signs of spring.  The four foot high fence is melting out of the snow and the Spud Cellars are seeing some action.

More signs of spring.  Along the side of Pine Creek Pass there's some dirt.

An unconventional Osprey nest.  Next picture is a close up.

For years, this nest has been made out of baling twine.  One year, the Osprey got caught in the twine and was hanging upside down.  Fish & Game has to come and disentangle it.  Only in Idaho.

The neighbor's chickens taking a stroll on the newly exposed dirt.