St. Joe Flood

The Joe is flooded big time. I was in the neighborhood and stopped by to check out the property and it was entirely inaccessible. It might be until the end of June or early July until there is any camping out at the Joe. I couldn't get any pics of the folk's deck and property but I could see it from the road and it looked like an island among all this water. I could see that the deck was intact and that the water was pretty much right under the deck footings. Looks like it held well. Might be a shorter camping season this year on the Joe. Fishing might be a little late this year as well.

Poker Run

Rob, Uncle Doug, and I rode in a Poker Run fund raiser for the Shoshone County Shrine Club last weekend. It was a lot of fun. I think that this year there were more than 600 riders on this thing. The trail was in great shape and we got real lucky with the weather. None of us pulled any good poker hands but Rob won a drawing at the end of the day. We were at the wheel bar so you might imagine that I might not remember exactly what it was that he won. That last thing I knew, there was someone riding a horse through the bar. Can't wait to go on this again next year.

Lester V. Smith Memorial Pike Derby

A bunch of us competed in the pike derby again this year down in Harrison. I snagged this pic of Nason's humongous fish below from Joe's website (thanks Joe!). This thing was enormous. Too bad we didn't make it in to check in that morning (for various reasons not to be disclosed). He would have been in the money.

Momma Mia!

Heidi is doing well with baby. She was able to get some photos taken the other day at a photography studio. The photographer wanted to use Heidi as a pregnancy model on her website and so did the photos free. The site is capturedbyellie.com. More pics should be posted on her site soon. You can access more of the photos taken that day by going to the site, clicking on 'client area' and then typing 'heidi' into the password field. The pictures are all really great. The photographer is actually going to display a large print of one of the shots of Heidi at the Ironwood Starbucks here in town. Not sure which one yet but they all look good.

In other Frazier news:













We've had most of the disturbed site around the house hydroseeded. Weather has been good for growing grass so that will be nice to have that in.

Hope to tackle the rest of the driveway soon. We are getting bids on house paint right now.

Elise and I went fishing at the stock pond at Post Falls park last weekend. No luck but had fun at the park after.

Doghouse

I got back from a good visit to Boise yesterday morning. Saw Krista and Darren, The Nails, and Bret, Elizabeth, and the Coppess kids. Everybody was doing great and it was good catching up. Today, Elise and I worked on a doghouse for the Brew and Wyatt. She's pretty handy. Here's the progress so far. We'll keep you up to date on this latest project.

The Melt

CHEESE!!!










I'm off to Boise for the week for a meeting so I thought maybe a quick post will tide me over until next time. It warmed up quite a bit this last weekend and we are now seeing some of the effect of that given that we have had a lot of snow. The creek across the road has been slowly on the rise and now it has crested it's banks and has completely filled the fields across the road. Here are a few pics. Aside from that not much has been happening. Looking forward to more good weather for sure. We should be painting the house soon and are going to be looking at finishing up the driveway on towards the end of the month. The Lester V. Smith Pike Tourney is at the end of April and me and Clute are going to take the trophy this year I am fairly confident. Heidi continues to do well with the baby. All is on schedule for June. Until next time.

Wow.

It's been over a month. What can I say. I was actually looking over the blog the other day and realized that this thing has been going for over a year now. I was thinking about doing a best of and thought, I haven't even posted for the last month! Anyway, we're still here and we are settling into our new home. The weather has been crazy here. We had seven inches of snow the other day. It has been an unusual winter with over 150 inches of accumulated snowfall. Heidi is doing well with baby to be named later. All has gone well so far with doctor appointments and with the general well being of Heidi and the baby. So, we keep looking forward to June when baby to be named later will actually be named. Here are a few pics of our recent happenings in the Frazier household.



















Elise with Josh Pelczar over in Seattle on a girls trip with mom.













Dad was fishing at Rocky Ford Creek. The fishing was goooooood!













Then, it snowed.



















It was Easter



















Then, it snowed again.

It has melted since but we are holding out for more. It's April already! This has been one of the longest winters I have ever experienced! Next up, Elise's birthday!

Stay tuned for baby yet to be named!