This picture was taken along the Clearwater River in northern Idaho, about the end of summer.

It's fall now, and the leaves have turned. The rains are starting; there's a freshness in the air. We've been living in this part of the country for going on four years now. A beautiful place to live and yet part of one's self is always tied to what they feel home is.

Home, for me, is the sagebrush, big skies, meadowlarks, wide vistas, and canyons of southern Idaho. It nice to know them both.

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Humor

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones. Proverbs 17:22 GEORGE CARLIN said it best about Martha Stewart "Boy, I feel a lot safer now that she's behind bars. O.J. Simpson and Kobe Bryant are still walking around; Osama Bin Laden too, but they take the one woman in America willing to cook, clean, and work in the yard, and haul her off to jail. Okay, this is no joke. I really want you to come over and clean my kitchen Here's a salute to the man BILL MURRAY How do you beat Groundhog Day and What About Bob? But seriously, the man can act! You need to see him in LOST IN TRANSLATION It's sophisticated. I apologize right now, but Spider Pig was funny! My grandson and I watched this video on Youtube over and over. We never stopped roaring. "If a pig loses its voice, is it disgruntled?" If lawyers are disbarred and clergymen defrocked, doesn't it follow that electricians can be delighted, musicians denoted? George Carlin This is one my grandson really loves. He says, "Grandma, let's watch this forever!" Now how did they do that? "Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong." George Carlin "Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish, and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day." George Carlin Front Back My niece and I get endless delight making fun of the hunting channel, especially when they continue whispering after the animal's dead, ha! He's dead Jim. Kick him if you don't believe me Be sure and put ALL of that stink down [Why did you kill him?] Because he's such a BEUUUUUTY! Two hunters were out in the woods, and they were lost. One said, "I think were lost." The other one said "Shoot three times into the air and help will come." So they shot and shot until one said, "This doesn't seem to be working and we're almost out of arrows. I don't know about you, but I can't make it without my morning Okay, so I'm an old lady. I can get away with this. "When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?" George Carlin Self Explanatory Signs things are bad: You inherit General Motors and they outlaw cars Someone calls you a travel agent because you give them guilt trips For Sale: One computer slightly used. One bullet hole in screen Definitions: *ANTIQUE: An item your grandparents bought, your parents got rid of, and you're buying again *FULL NAME: What you call your child when you're mad at him/her *FANCY RESTAURANT: One that serves cold soup on purpose *DERANGE: Where de buffalo roam "Men are from Earth, women are from Earth. Deal with it." "I am" is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that "I do" is the longest sentence?" "Women like silent men, they think they're listening." GC The Funny Papers were no longer funny after Gary Larson left. "If all the world is a stage, where is the audience sitting?" George Carlin People who made us laugh -- God Bless! JTO & Bobby Duck "Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?" George Carlin My favorite of all -- The Continental skit from Saturday Night Live - starring Christopher Walken But first, a glass of fine champagna. Thanks for lookin' in (blonde jokes are NOT FUNNY!)

Idaho Beauty

	MY BEAUTIFUL IDAHO
	To all of you Californians -- read no further. Idaho is just a flat place with potato fields. You won't like it here Notellem Lake We only got to go camping once this summer. Sometimes life doesn't want to let you out of town. We went to some beautiful lakes. It was just my son, my grandson, and myself on a short, grab-it-while -you-can trip, so unfortunately I did not have my camera with me, but this is a good shot. The guys enjoyed swimming in the lake. Other than four teenagers laughing, playing, and swimming off a dock, we had it all to ourselves. The beautyand simplicity of it was profound. Idaho Syringa - State Flower Idaho Mountain Bluebird Common Loon My Grandson enjoyed throwing rocks in the lake. He helped me cook, and he helped his Daddy by holding tent pegs. Kicking rocks in the dirt was big fun. It was a job keeping him covered all night. He kept kicking out of his sleeping bag. There were some mean horseflies in camp. We sat by the smoke of the campfire to keep them away. OUCH! Mosquitoes were thick this year too, but bug spray did the trick for that. We enjoyed watching the birds and squirrels that visited. A loon kept splashing and calling across the lake all night. He thought he owned it apparently -- turns out he did. He kept me awake for a long time. We woke in the night, sensing something outside our tent. In the morning, we found deer tracks going by our tent. Ah, but that's what camping is all about -- getting out with the critters and sharing their world. A former camping trip where my son made me camp in a cow pasture on the side of a mountain. Idaho is a state with so much beauty, it's hard to ever leave. The Idaho Rockies are spectacular Stanley ID Idaho Wild Flowers Salmon River (River of No Return) -- Sawtooth Mountains Del Gue: "I ain't never seen 'em, but my common sense tells me the Andes is foothills, and the Alps is for children to climb! Keep good care of your hair! These here is God's finest scupturings! And there ain't no laws for the brave ones! And there ain't no asylums for the crazy ones! And there ain't no churches, except for this right here! And there ain't no priests excepting the birds. By God, I are a mountain man, and I'll live 'til an arrow or a bullet finds me. And then I'll leave my bones on this great map of the magnificent." Jeremiah Johnson 1972 Silver City (Ghost Town) Idaho City, ID One of our old mining towns still alive today Seven Devils Mountain Range Hells Canyon -- Deepest Canyon in the U.S. The grounds around Kirkwood Ranch, Hells Canyon on the Idaho side Owyhee River Pack String Indian Paintbrush Sagebrush From desert canyons to working ranches, Idaho has it all