Big news: Walmart super store opened yesterday at the north end of Kalispell. Finally more than just Costco close to home for groceries.

   Packed in a lot of summer fun last weekend. Met some friends who were camping at Apgar in Glacier National Park and rode bikes for a few hours. Ate lunch by the Middle Fork of the Flahtead River and saw the raft racers going by. An incredibly nice day. Came home and found one of our bee hives had swarmed. Made the end of the day hectic trying to get zillions of bees off our pasture floor and into a box for some friends to come over and pick up so they could have bees this year.

   Sunday we took the horses to Lost Trail and had a wonderful ride. Love that area, it is huge and you rarely see another soul. The horses did great - all my hard work has started to pay off.

   Next week the western US governors all converge in Whitefish including the famous Arnold from CA. Kinda special to have this event in little old Whitefish.

   Headed with my daughter to the Jewel Basin for a morning hike this week, surprise, surprise, so much snow we couldn't get to the trail head. Must have been 2' of snow across the road, and it was COLD! So, did Lone Pine St. park in Kalispell instead which was just right for the time we had left.