Mr. Troutbend's family came up to celebrate Father's Day, and everyone had a great time. They brought everything, right down to the lunchroom style divided plastic plates and took them home dirty. All we provided was the scenery and the charcoal and the wildlife viewing.

The hummingbirds are here in force, so everyone had fun watching them for awhile.



Even with 10 people and a dog milling around the backyard, the fox showed up for a snack. Naturally, everyone was thrilled because they'd saved the ends of hotdog buns for him.



Then, most of them hiked up to the waterfall, which still has water in it.



Coming back down, two big beavers that were up the side stream scouting for fresh trees ran across the path in front of the hikers. The beavers hustled down the stream, over the beaver dams, down the culvert and into the main river. Everyone was thrilled.



We had a few rainstorms, but thanks to our covered patio, this didn't affect the success of the picnic, then the sun came out and they went on the hike, and a thunderstorm moved in as they packed up and left.

It was a great day, and everyone had a wonderful time. I forgot to take a picture of the family.