Mail from a little bear.

 Hiya Gang. 
I am enjoying the summer.  The garden is coming along nicely.  Jerry and Ben do you recognize these flowers? 

Yep, Marigolds (from seeds)....next year I am buying the starts.  The California Poppys are doing well.  

Did you know it's illegal to pick the California Poppy in California?  It's the state flower.  The pepper plant is struggling......however the volunteer tomatoes are doing pretty well.

Experimenting with a wildflower garden.   According to the seed packet this blend of seeds are  supposed to attract hummingbirds and bees.  

Here is succelent #2.  

Succelent #2 is the second one, the first one was killed by my roommates (too much water).  Oh wait, is that a card I see?

Oh sweet (do people still stay that)!  It's a card from Ajdin and it has some stickers.  That's awesome I can put them on my waterbottle and be the coolest fox in the neighborhood (which is something to brag about as there are about 6 stuffy foxes (I lost count) or so living with my roommates. 

Summer Stuffy Olympics 2021

 Hello Blog World.   Let me introduce my coaches for the 2021 Olympics hosted by Ajdin. 

 First up we have Little Bear, my equipment manager.

Meet head coach Drunk Fox and measuring manager Choya. 

This year I am participating in the Stuffy Olympics as a javelin thrower. 

Before I do my event I have a quick coaching session from head coach Drunk Fox. 

Quite in the stadium please.  This athlete works well in silence.

OMG, this might be a world record.  

Drunk Fox and Kermit are very happy and according to my head measurer Choya it is a world record. 

Now, I just need to wait and have my world record verified by the Olympic Committee.

Fort Rock State Park

 Hiya all.
Little Fox, archaeologist here. It's summer school and I am on a field trip for my archeology program.

Today, we are exploring Fort Rock.  Fort Rock is an unincorporated place in SE Oregon (i.e. a small town).  However, Fort Rock wasn't always  small town.  Back in the day, like 9,000 years ago, it was a thriving lakeside community. Archeologist Luther Cressman found the famed Fort Rock Sandals in a cave at Fort Rock.  These sandals are about 9,000 years old and these sandals were found in all sorts of sizes.

As you can see Fort Rock is pretty desolate right now.  Why sandals found here?  Go back many  years and this area was not a desert but a lake.  

This lake was about 2,300 square kilometers so it makes sense that people would live around the lake.  2,300 square kilometers seems bug but Fort Rock lake was actually pretty small compared to others of that time.   

The park is open to hiking and exploring (but it's hot so our exploring is going to be limited).  The cave where the archeology treasures were found is closed off to the public.  Hmm, this looks interesting.  I read that bats live nearby and a few lizards.  I think this might be a fissure, I wonder how the rock got cracked?

In the last 150 years or so this land was open to the homestead act.  Many people tried to make a go at it and Fort Rock is a pretty tough place to farm and most homesteaders left after a decade. The natural history museum is in hte process of preserving building from various ranchs.

Time for lunch! Good news!  The restaurant is open.

What should I order?  Club sandwich and garlic bread.  

To counteract the sandwich I also got a chef salad.

Off to my next adventure.  Better stay hydrated.

PS Jerry and Ben there was also pie for dessert (humans scarfed it down too fast for a proper picture). 

Mail Call: Jerry and Ben visit Devil's Tower.

 Road trip!!!!  Looks like Jerry and Ben are one a road trip.  Yep, they are visiting Devil's Tower in Wyoming.  If you haven't gone, it's pretty cool.

Also they are traveling through the black hills. I am wondering if they visited the Corn Palace in Mitchell, SD?  Been there, done that.  A pretty interesting little place.

I personally like the dinosaurs in Rapid City. I wonder if J and B saw them?

My final question for J and B is if they went to the granddaddy of tourist attractions/gift shops in South Dakota .  Yep, Wall Drug.  If you have never been it's worth a stop.

Safe travels J and B.  Looking forward to hearing about your next adventure.

LF

Bachelor Mountain and Suttle Lake Adventure.

Little Fox here.  I am enjoying some time on Bachelor Mountain in the Central Oregon Cascades.  Over in the distance is Mt. Jefferson 

Yep. snow in this picture.  Way over there is Mt. Washington.

A few mountain wildflowers. 

The one and only beargrass plant I saw today.

A short hike to Bachelor Mountain so that means I can do something else.  I decided to coerce my roommates to stop at Suttle Lake Lodge. It started as a small lodge in the 1920s, then expanded during the 30s and once again in the 40s.  

The main lodge is fancy smancy.  Bear totem poles, racoon totem poles, where is the fox one? 

Drunk Fox would approve of this wine cellar. 

Oh yeah, probably should have a photo of the lake.  Yep, it's a nice one. 

Ah, what a day. I might have even worn out Sequoia.  

Nah, he's got energy galore. 

 

Salmon River Hike, did someone say Salmon?

Before we begin this blog.  Happy Canada Day.

Hello Gang. Little Fox here, today I am off to explore the Salmon River.  It's too early for Salmon but a nice day for a hike. 

The river is running strong.  It's still Spring on the mountain. 

Some Spring wildflowers, this purple one looks like Larkspur. According to my app the purple one is dicot, but no description.

More wildflowers.

Mountain rhododendrons.

Sequoia and the roommate got lunch, not this fox though. 

Time to reflect on my humans evaluation....no lunch = bad reviews.