Greets from Idaho

Hello Everyone from Dave Nell:

This blogging should prove interesting. I do not own a cell phone and still have a dial-up connection to the INTERNET.

Life is nice and slow out here in Idaho. The only real problem is getting up at 4:30 in the morning to ride a bus 55 miles out into the desert for work. Also being single keeps things calm.

The one exception is when I went on vacation the week of August 11th. I helped Horse Creek Outfitters in Challis, Idaho set-up their back country camp at Square Top Mountain in the Salmon National Forest. I learned a lot about catching and saddling horses and mules and setting up canvas tents. We had wolves howling outside the camp one morning and rode along the edge of a small forest fire on Monday and Tuesday. On Thursday, we rode close enough to the fire that we were in thick smoke, had trees falling around us, and heard some trees near us catch fire and burst into flames.

The only other thing that I found interesting was helping to dig a five foot deep hole for the outhouse. Out where I work, it would of taken four forms, three reviews, and a month of close supervision to get the hole dug. Back at Square Top Mountain, the three of us picked a nice location near the camp and started digging.

Take care everyone.