Long Overdue Update

Greetings from Mantua!!! It appears Quent and I have been slacking on updating the blog. Here is a quick run down since our last post.

We had Quent's family up for Easter dinner, it was fun to see them and enjoy some good food. The Monday after Easter we helped Kerry move some of her boxes from Bill & Joyce's house to a storage unit, nothing like moving boxes.

Other than that we've been pretty boring. Just trying to keep up with laundry and the hatchery we've been pretty quiet around here.

Dying Easter Eggs

Quent and decided to dye Easter eggs on Friday night. Neither of us had dyed eggs in years and we thought it would be fun to dye a dozen or two.

We decided on the basic PAAS dye and to my concern there wasn't a crayon in the box for us to put or names on our eggs. Of course any old crayon would have worked but of course we didn't think about that at the time.

Here are some pictures of our dying event. We decided that we wanted real dark eggs so we let the eggs sit in the color for quite awhile, it took a little bit more patience than I remember having as a kid.

Enjoy the pictures!

Before

Eggs in progress

Drying

After

Quent's arrangement in the PAAS box.

Nothing fancy, just some bright Easter eggs.

Around the Hatchery

Quent had me take some pictures of the hatchery building today as they did not have any current photos. Most of the pictures I've seen were taken circa 1980 so we thought we'd update the stock. In turn I get to put them on the blog.

These pictures are just of the hatchery building where the eggs and just hatched eggs are kept. We'll post pictures of the raceways and the "larger" fish sometime soon.

Taking the long way home

Quent and I returned from Cody on Tuesday, March 31. After driving two hours, the weather was clear and we and we knew there was a storm blowing in to southwestern wyoming but we figured we could beat the storm and travel home through Jackson Hole. This little detour added about four hours to our drive but we decided that it would be worth it as Quent has never been to Jackson and he didn't have to work on Wednesday.

While driving through the Tetons we stopped and took some pictures of a couple different moose. We also went to the elk winter feeding grounds just outside of Jackson to see how man elk were still in their winter area.

We arrived home just after 7:00 p.m. after the snow storm hit us just outside Logan Canyon.