Eunice Boeve

Ron and I spend our summers on Angel Island on Bull Lake near Troy, Montana. One of the mountains rising to the west of the lake has a jagged rock face bare of trees. This mountain is called Bad Medicine. According to legend, many years ago a band of traveling Kootenai Indians were camped (more…)

While our son and his children were here visiting us in Montana, we drove over to Cocolalla, Idaho to visit the “Wolf People.” They have a small store by the side of the road where they sell shirts, pictures, videos and other items featuring the wolf and other animals native to the region. Out back of the store is a large enclosure where visitors can interact with wolf puppies. An adult wolf or two, not necessarily the parents, for wolves it seems all share in caring for their young ones, are in a connected enclosure and watch anxiously as humans play with the puppies. The “Wolf People” also have an extensive acreage where they raise wolves in their natural habitat. These people have lived with an around wolves since 1987. A blurb on their advertising folder reads: “Wolves are fun, intelligent, beautiful, and yes, challenging animals.” When our granddaughter, Ally, pictured on the left, was about eight, we visited the Grizzly and Wolf Discovery Center in West Yellowstone where a wolf pack lives in a semi-natural setting. One of the wolves spied Ally and watched her all the time we were there. We asked a Ranger about the wolf’s interest in our granddaughter, but she could not give us a satisfactory answer. Anyone have any ideas? My best guess is that it is a descendant of the wolf from the Little Red Ridinghood story.


I just finished reading The Help by Kathryn Stockett. It’s about three women who live in Mississippi in the 1960s. Two of the women are black maids, the third, a white girl just out of college and just now realizing the vast gulf that separated the white and black world and the overwhelming (more…)

The Number Thirteen

Why do people shy at the number 13? Thirteen is a vital number in many ways. One of our delightful granddaughters just turned thirteen; the moon goes around the earth thirteen times a year. The US started with thirteen colonies and old Glory has thirteen stripes. Thirteen objects, stars, arrows, leaves, etc. (more…)