Update

So I was sitting here tonight watching Casino Royale....blond James Bond...when out of my shaken and stirred state I heard quite an eerie sound. I thought for sure it was a moose yawn until it started in chorus and then there was no mistaking the distinct call of the wild...that gripping and lonely sound of a wolf howling at the moon. There is no mistaking it and trust me at times....like when I'm alone in my cabin in the woods....I wish there were. But, curiosity got the better of me and so I stepped outside of my cabin and nearly fainted when I heard a rustling in the bushes to my left.....out popped a snowshoe rabbit....and I nearly wet myself. I swear sometimes it seems like Nature has me on one of those hidden camera shows and just baits me to see what I'll do....I do have to say that the screaming has died down a bit and has been replaced by disgruntled and exasperated cursing....sometimes at higher than normal volumes, but not the cacophony that is my scream. I think I may have actually killed the buffalo with that one....they found a dead one the next day just down the hill...I feel badly about it so I've decided to give wildlife a break...at least for now or until I get charged again....then all bets are off....

In other news: I was out on Nordic skis today and realized that I am in fact the most coordinated person in the world...they should give me a prize or something. The only thing literally holding me back would be the sagebrush that kept grabbing my poles away from me thus sending me into a tustle of flying arms and near upsets....you can stop laughing now.....I didn't even fall once....now I should get a medal for that! The next round comes tomorrow when we go out to count Sage-grouse tracks....yes that's right tracks not birds...apparently we aren't to be trusted when it comes to counting the actual bird...which is probably good considering I'll be waging war with the sagebrush and will probably miss half the tracks in my efforts to not fall over in front of the world-renowned biologists conducting the study....sometimes I wonder what I was drinking when I decided that this was a good idea...now stop laughing and wish me luck....and while your sitting at your computer thinking that you are having a bad day...just think of me...covered in snow, swearing at sagebrush, and wishing to God that they wouldn't give me such great opportunities to mess up scientific research....