I had a forward yesterday from The US Bureau of Reclamation Federal Preservation Officer (FPO). It was a job posting ahead of the retirement of the Great Plains Regional Archeologist. Up front: I will not apply. This is definitive. I distinctly remember a party in 1999 when I first met the GP Regional Archeologist and decided that would be a great job to settle into someday. I spent the next 13 years holding that idea. So yesterday I compared the job description, pay grade, etc. of the listing and realized that I have the same job in a different place. I may even have more interesting archaeology in a less dispersed area. I responded with a much shorter but similar thought to the FPO. She responded immediately that this was good because they weren't going to let me leave this program anyway...I'm too busy cleaning up projects from her tenure at Grand Coulee Dam 10 years ago. So it may not be a small city like Billings and it may not be my home-state of Montana but after 6 months in the coulee I kinda like it here.
So enough about me...but we don't have a tremendous amount of information to report. Our ski area is still suffering from climate change and is not open- so we have not skied . It has been foggy and chilly so we haven't explored much more. The boys are enjoying school. Simon is reading at a third grade level and doing excelled math and there is talk about a gifted and talented program at the new school next year. Finn is ready for kindergarten and has been making friends with the kindergarten teacher at the elementary school. He is also becoming fascinated with paleontology and geology through his pre-school. Katie is struggling with the bureaucracy of trying to get a Washington State teaching certificate and has begun to consider other options.
Here's a few pictures to cover the last couple weeks as we have hiked the sandpile, hung out with friends, enjoyed fresh snow, and made a volcano.
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