Mountain Time, Pacific Time, how am I supposed to know what time it is? I'm a dog for goodness sake. I thought it was time to get Kathe up this morning and boy was she crabby! Hey, when you gotta go, you gotta go. I didn't know it was only 5 AM here in Idaho, it felt like 6AM in Montana to me. Everyone got up a little bit early thanks to me. Now they tell me that the time will change back again when we get to McCall tomorrow.
Once Jim got up and saw that there were hard water spots on the motor home after the sprinklers came on, he was outside with his cleaning rags. Get out the umbrellas folks, because this can only mean one thing--RAIN. That's how we help the farmers here in Idaho, we wash the motor home, then go to the car wash, then it starts lightening and you know the rest of the story.
There isn't too much to do here in Grangeville except watch the wheat and hay grow. We asked the local people what we should see in town and no one had any suggestions. We found the Chamber of Commerce and picked up some information there, but everything they suggested was out of town.
We found an interesting Lake located 6 miles out of town in the middle of some hay fields. Tolo Lake was once part of the Nez Perce home territory and a gathering spot for animals for at least 11,000 years. In 1994 they drained the lake when completing a fish and game rehabilitation project and discovered a thigh bone of a Colombian mammoth. In that summer of excavating they found nine mammoths and two bison. Scientists believe that Tolo Lake may be the largest mammoth graveyard in the US with up to 200 mammoth skeletons.
We also visited the Monastery of St. Gertrude in Cottonwood, Idaho. It's a beautiful stone convent built in 1907 on the Carnas Prairie by Benedictine Sisters from Washington.
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