On Frenchman Mountain

Sarah, my best-friend from Glendive, sent me a newspaper article for my birthday. The article is a reprint from 25-years-ago. To see the article and a photo of the event at high resolution, click here. Thank you Sarah!

Sandy decided to celebrate the end of the swimming season and Amy’s birthday, we needed to have a Pegleg Pirate Party. First, some swimming, followed by a meal of chicken legs (Sandy wrote the menu for a pirate-y restaurant theme), veggies, biscuits, and wine/apple cider, of course with tea candles and little surprises under the [...]

Sandy came up with a great name for a restaurant: The Peg Leg! To mark the end of the swimming season, we’ll have a pirate fest and a day on the water. I’ll post the menu soon.

Last year was our first year of celebrating Yule rather than Christmas. We let the kids open most of their presents on Dec. 22 then had them open the rest on Dec. 25. This year, we’re holding our Yule festivities on Saturday, Dec. 22. The girls will open all their presents on this date.

On our way to Glendive, Mont. from our home in Spokane, Wash., we traveled through Yellowstone National Park. It was hot during the day but at night it got down to freezing! We didn’t know that until we woke up the next morning and looked out our tent.

In 2001, Randy and Deb took us camping up to Yokem, Wash. I don’t really remember how we got there (I must have been sleeping). But the road was primative and we weren’t sure if we’d make it up the mountain. After our camping trip, we celebrated Sandy’s second birthday.

When we lived in Spokane, Wash., we went camping every summer. One of our favorite spots was next to the Spokane River on the Spokane Indian Reservation. The following link highlights photos from a 2000 and 2002 vacation.