weather is in the town where I live.
The winter weather here in Great Falls Montana is much like the winters of West Stewartstown New Hampshire but not the constant cold. They have a bigger swing in the temps here. I have already seen temps in the 50s here in December not something you see in northern NH. But I have also seen temps well below zero here in Great Falls. NH is a beautiful place to live but Montana is something else. I am glad I made the move here. The best way to describe Montana is to give you a definition for Montana.
Montana = Every blink of the eyes a new postcard......every tick of the clock a National Geographic moment. That is why I believe beyond all doubt the ultimate place to be is! Montana.
MOUNTAIN TIME
Posted July 5th 2011
I went camping at Yellowstone National Park in May 2011. Had a great trip as always I took some nice pictures and put a new album in my gallery titiled Yellowstone May 2011.
You can see it here
Posted November 13th 2010
I added another new album that shows Mother Nature at her best. All pictures from Yellowstone National Park.
Click here to see what happens when Mother Nature picks up her paint brush.
Posted September 25th 2010
I added another new album of pictures from my Yellowstone September 2010trip
Click here to see this album.
Posted September 22nd 2010
Added a new photo album today. Pictures I took of Mammoth Hot Springs in Yellowstone National Park in September of 2010.
Click here to go to this album.
Posted August 30th 2010
How about that another post already. I have posted 76 landscape pictures from my May camping trip to Yellowstone to a new photo album. Remember I am still new to using a gallery to post my pictures. This album is my first mistake, Really! My first mistake ever! 76 pictures is too many, so you might need to pack a lunch to see all the pictures in this album. In future albums I will keep it at 45 or fewer pictures per album. But for now we are stuck with this bigger album.
Click here to go to this album.
Posted August 20th 2010
I am trying something new this time, I have put my photos into a gallery for easier viewing. Now you can view them much like a slide show by just clicking on the next button. A little FYI this is still a work in process and I will be tweaking it from time to time. The next album could look a little different but it will work the same. So with that in mind click here to go to my first gallery album .
Wildlife pictures from my Yellowstone camping trip May 2010. PS pressing f11 on your keyboard will take you in and out of full screen for viewing the larger pictures this is most helpful if you have a small screen like a laptop or an old 15 inch screen.
Posted March 25th 2010
I went back to Yellowstone's Lamar Valley in early March As always it was an awesome trip.
Click here to see the pictures I took on this trip.
Posted December 5th 2009
Click here to see pictures of my trip to Yellowstone's Lamar Valley./b>
Posted October 7th 2009
Click here to see pictures from my first trip to Yellowstone National Park
Posted July 31st 2009
My first camping trip to Glacier National Park.
Click here to see the pictures.
Posted July 6th 2009
On May 18th I took my first trip to Saint Mary Lake and the eastside of Glacier National Park It was a trip to remember a lot of wildlife on this day. Another great day to be this curmudgeon,the Layz1. To see the pictures I took on this trip
Click here.
Posted May 12th 2009
Another trip to Glacier National Park plus a three hundred and fifty mile loop from Great Falls Montana to Browning, to the route 2 Goat Lick to see some mountain goats then on to West Glacier, Kalispell, Flathead lake, Polson, Bigfork through the Swan River National Wildlife Refuge and the Lolo National Forest on to Lincoln Montana then back to Great Falls. Not part of the loop but a beautiful side trip of thirty five miles from Browning to Saint Mary Montana. To see pictures of the goats
and some of the scenic pictures I took click here.
Posted April 2nd 2009
YES! Another post already. Your favorite curmudgeon Layz1 has out done himself with almost rapid fire posts, lets here it for the Layz1. I should have called this post here a geese there a geese everywhere a geese, geese. I went to Freezeout Lake in Fairfield Montana twice in less then a week for the spring migration of snow Geese an I was not disappointed. There were about 100,000 geese there on my second trip. I also went to the Sun River Canyon in Augusta Montana the same day.
Just click here to see some of the pictures I took.
Posted July 16th 2008
Posted from my new home in Great Falls Montana. It's taken two weeks for me to get setup in an apartment and make my first post from Great Falls Montana, but here it is.
Click here to read a little about my drive and see a few pictures I took on the way.
Posted June 22nd 2008
Your favorite curmudgeon Layz1 is on the move. My most recent test show that my April test were wrong. I don't need a stent added to my arteries, so they tell me all systems are go for my Montana move. I will be on my way Saturday June 28, I hope to pull into Great falls in 3 to 5 days from this Saturday. You might have noticed that the weather sticker near the top of the page now reads Great Falls Montana. FYI if you don't see a post from me in the next six weeks or so call the FBI, CIA and the Canadian Mounted Police. Stay tuned for pictures from my drive and the wildlife of Montana.
Posted June 1st 2008
Update on my Montana move. I was suppose to head for Great Falls Montana on the first of May but things did not go as well as I had hoped on my April doctors visit. It seems my arteries are still blocking up, drat the luck! So here is the new plan. They will put in a stent, probability about mid June. After I have my first follow up, if all goes according to plan I should be able to get on my way by July 1st. Keep the faith I believe I will get to Montana, or to pu it another way you might better relate to " I have hiiiiigh hopes, I will move that rubber tree plant" wish me luck.
Posted March 14th 2008
Posted January 4th 2008
It's me, yes! It really is me. Your favorite curmudgeon past of the Great North Woods of NH, now of the asphalt jungle of Manchester NH. I said I would post some Christmas pictures that I took at Hampton Beach while I was there for the holidays and here they are. But first let me wish the entire world especially all the great people that take the time to visit my web site a very Happy New Year!
Click here to see Christmas at the beach.
Click here to see a short video of die hard surfers that were on the beach Christmas day.
Posted November 13th 2007
Well Layz1 is most likely posting to his web page for the last time from the Great North Woods of New Hampshire. If you noticed at the top of the this page there is no longer a buy my mobile home link. And if you put two and two together you already know that it has been sold. If you want to know more about what this curmudgeon will be up to when I leave the North Woods next month click here.
GOOD BYE GREAT NORTH WOODS" You will also see some of the last pictures that I have taken here including some of a large bull moose with a very small set of antlers. must be a young bull.
Posted September 26th 2007
I took a number of hikes with my nephew the other day, one of the hikes took us to the fourth Connecticut lake. Click here
for the shocking truth about the fourth lake.
Posted August 16th 2007.
I have a guest webmaster today,she is my granddaughter her name is Kristen. We went to the Squam Lake science center to view the wildlife. She posted a show she wants to share with you.
Click here to go to her page.
Posted August 8th 2007.
I haven't taken any pictures worth posting in awhile so I will bore you with the details of the latest work that I have had done to my Corotid arteries. Are you lucky or what! On august 26th I entered the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical center in Lebanon NH for another angioplasty
Click here to find out if I survived or not.
Posted July 17th 2007.
My nephew recently took some interesting pictures of a female moose.
Click
here to view them.
Posted July 10 2007
I mentioned awhile back on my
blog that I would post some pictures of the covered bridges that are still left in the Great North Woods of New Hampshire so that is what I am doing today. But before I do that the curmudgeon in me has something to say. So heeereeee's the curmudgeon "to those of you out there that are spamming my guest book. Knock it off! Or I will personally hunt you down and twist your
lips off! And a little FYI for you Mr. and Mrs. spammer trying to sell someone that is four years older then dirt Viagra or porn is about as useless as trying to sell a beeper to a corpse. " Ok the curmudgeon has been put to bed. I know that the spam is auto generated but the curmudgeon has not been heard from on this web site for quite awhile and he was beginning to feel left out so I gave him something to do. Now to get back to business.
Click here to see the covered bridges of the Great North Woods.
Posted June 17, 2007.
I had a cool visitor in my backyard the other day, a nice spike horn deer walked right up to me.
Click on this link to see
some pictures of it and a young moose.
Posted April 28th 2007
I have the
power! Click here and read more about the
curmudgeon's power and view some pictures of that said power.
Posted April 4th 2007
In a world! Where it never seems to stop snowing, you can hear the cries from the Layz1.
Help me! Help me!Sombody make the snow go away, make the winter stop, please! They say we will be getting about 12 inches of snow up here in The Great North Woods of New Hampshire tonight. Ugh! Will winter never end? The last nice day we had I went out and took a few more pictures.
Click here to see them
Posted March 15th 2007
Extra! Extra! Read all about it!
The gruesome twosome, that being the Turnpike Turtle and your favorite curmudgeon Layz1 are back on the road again. As you can see from the picture on the left there was still plenty of snow left on the ground but the temperature top out at fifty degrees on this day. And just a few days before the bike ride I went looking for some critters to photograph. It seems this would be a lucky day for the Layz1, there were a number of critters out and about willing to pose for some pictures.
Click here to see the pictures I took and see if you can guess the critter Layz1 likes best.
Posted March 6th, 2007
Not much going on up here in the Great North Woods, so your favorite curmudgeon the layz1 decided to go through his old pictures and post a few of them to the web page. So you can
click here for a hodge-podge of pictures from the Great North Woods of NH.
Posted Feb 19th 2007
Now all I need is something to write about, let me think for a sec......Naw! I got nothing! Guess we will wait till another day. Wait! Wait! I got it! I will tell you about my son's visit last summer. Here goes. He came. He went.
Click here to see pictures.
Posted Feb 1st 2007
Berrrrr it has been brutally cold up here in the Great North Woods the last two weeks. It has been well below zero every night and down to twenty five to twenty eight below most nights. But that is the north country and we live with it, and sometimes love it. But right now I myself I'm damn tired of it. However it is always worth it to live here just check this out. I have posted a slide show to the web site so you can see just how beautiful a new snowjob can be.
Click here for slide show of a new snowjob.
Posted Jan 18th 2007
Finally I am updating my web site. I know it has been a long time since my last update but I have a good reason, however I can't tell anyone it is a big secret. And it must remain that way for reasons I am not free to divulge. Wait! I can't do this! I am the layz1 not the lying 1 the truth is I didn't feel like updating it so I didn't. Live with it! Opps! There is that curmudgeon again. Ok so I got that out of my system now on with today's post. On my last post I said I would post some more pictures of my trip to Radisson Quebec, and here they are
just click here and it will take you to them.
Posted September 10th 2006
I Know it has been awhile since I have posted anything, but it has been a busy summer. I did go to Radisson Quebec on vacation and have some good video of the Rupert river. I have posted a clip of the Rupert and a Radisson Quebec dump bear near the top of the page for your viewing pleasure. I believe I mentioned earlier on this web page that Hydro-Quebec will divert eighty percent of this river to one of its hydro plants in 2007. I believe this to be one of the last wild rivers in this part of Quebec that one can drive to but if you have not seen it yet it most likely will not be there for long next year then it is gone forever. I will write more about this river and my vacation as we get closer to winter. That is usually When I have more time. So till then have a happy and a healthy.
Posted April 8th 2006
The last few days of March and the first few days of April made for some fair to great biking weather. The last few days of March being the fair days and the first few days of April being the great days for riding. The riding season could not come quick enough for me, I have put on fifteen pounds of couch potato fat this winter and I need to take it off as soon as possible. So I jumped right on the bike in late March even know the temperature was only 45 degrees and the sun was nowhere to be seen. A little FYI for you I have renamed the bike I will no longer refer to it as "Old Silver Bike." From this day forth I shall call it the "Highway Turtle." So it is written so it shall be done. As you can tell from the where's Layz1 picture of the Highway Turtle on the left there was still snow on the ground at the time of this ride. But this was early April the temperature was in the middle to high 60s and sunny, just a great day to be out cycling.
The Highway Turtle and I started the season with a bang, in just seven days we logged over eighty miles. I felt like I lost a few pounds but my family tells me I didn't lose it I just put it behind me where I can't see it. Sometimes I can just hate honesty how about you? This bike ride produced a number of where's Layz1 pictures so don't be surprised if you see pictures with some snow in them most of the summer. As always if you can guess where I am you still can win your very own box of nothing, and remember I will deliver the nothing to your door but you must supply your own box. April is also the start of baseball season and the game just came on the TV. So let me say have a happy and a healthy and goodbye until another day.
Posted March 20th 2006
Once again it is time for a round of where is Layz1 on this day. You will need some hints to get this one because I'm not in the Great North Woods of New Hampshire. Instead I am in the Northeast Kingdom of Vermont. A quick look at the picture on the left will tell you that I am at an Elk ranch your job is to tell me what town Layz1 is in. If you still can't guess where I am you only need to go to
my blog and read my latest post there. But keep in mind that if you go to my blog to find the answer you will not be eligible for your free box of nothing.
On to new business, the weather up here in the great north woods is as cold now as it was in December and January maybe even colder. It was not a real cold winter here but it is turning out to be a damn long one and the month of March has had little sunshine. I hate to say this but I am anxious to start swatting those pesty black flies and no seeums. I have put on 15lbs of fat this winter and it looks like it will be close to another month before I can get any calorie burning bike riding in. I also can't wait for August when my niece and I will make the drive to Raddison Quebec for our vacation. This will be our second trip there. We went there three years ago where we saw the northern lights for the first time. This trip involves driving the James bay highway through almost four hundred miles of nothing but wilderness. I will tell you more about this trip and why it is so important to me later this spring. As the old saying goes "that's all he wrote" at least for this day.
Posted February 27th 2006
Well the cold weather finally came to the Great North Woods of New Hampshire, so this is a good time to update my web site.
Do you remember way back when, like last summer I said I had a clip of a cow moose and her calf that I would post to my web page some day? Well today is that day. I also said that I would make it small enough for the people with dial-up, and after a long hard fight I have done just that. As you may have gussed it is not easy to compress one moose let alone two. First I put a big bear hug on them to get the process started, then I put them up against a tree and repeatedly slammed my shoulder into them till they were narrow and tall. Now it was time for the hard part I had to climb up on top of them and jump up and down untill they were compressed to the maximum. If you can't picture me doing this then you have no imagination so get the hell off my web site! That was that damn curmudgeon speaking, but once again I am back in control. Don't pay any attention to him stick around and enjoy the fruits of my labor, check out the moose clip. After all my hugging, slamming and jumping, Walla! We have a moose clip of under one megabyte.
Click here for moose clip Don't blink or you will miss it.
Posted February 20th 2006
Well I have great news folks, I now have a new laptop computer so I can fail to update my web page from anywhere in the country. Is that cool, or what!
On a more serious side I saw a Bald Eagle the other day, he was perched in a tree right on rt,3 in Colebrook NH just a few miles from my place. What a treat. I tried to get a picture for the web site but he was gone quicker then a hic-cup. It turns out, according to our local newspaper there were two of them hanging around there feeding off a deer carcass down by the Connecticut River just a few hundred feet away. If I had realized that I would have found the carcass and staked it out for a few hours and tried to get some pictures and video of them eating there. But when the paper came out the next day it was to cold to go sit in the brush and wait for them to show up. And the thermometer has not been out of the single digits since. However it is suppose to warm up a little this week and if the carcass is still there I will try to get some pictures and video of them. But for now you will have to take my word for it, it was an awesome site to see. I should have realized that it was not watching the river for fish this time of year, I know they are scavengers and should have looked for what it was feeding on. My bad. Your loss, sucks to be you, great to be me. But fear not the curmudgeon you love to hate is on the job up here in the Great North Woods and I will do my best to track down Mr.Or Miss. Eagle and get a few pictures for you. Well that's all I have for now, except today is a holiday so let me say Happy Presidents Day to all, and to all a good night.
Posted January 26, 2006
I bet you think I'm about to apologize for the long time between post. Well you better think again! Damn it! If you were paying attention you would realize that I have been working on the web page, moving some of the older posts to an archive index to make the front page load faster. So you can go straight to Helopps!�1�2�3�4..5�6�7�8�.9�.10.Damn! there's that curmudgeon again. But once again I am back in control, however he is right about working on the page for the last week or so even know it doesn't show at first glance. I hope to archive some more stuff next month.. But I am done for this month because I am feeling a bit under the weather at this time. Cough, cough, sneeze, sneeze, sniffle, sniffle. About all I can gather enough ambition to do today is post another where's layz1 today, so click on the picture to the left and tell me where's layz1 on this day. OH! I did add a link at the bottom of this page you should visit when you get a chance. Curiously enough it is under my favorite links.
Posted January 3, 2006
I hope you all had a Merry Christmas, a very pleasant hogmanay, and go on to have a grand New Year. But if only one of us can have a grand new year then I would rather it be me then you. Ok my secret is out I am a selfish person. I don't think it was a very well kept secret anyway. Now it is time for you to check out the picture on the left and tell me where's Layz1 today. But first a little FYI for you, especially the kids out there. As you can tell by the picture, you
can not ride a bike with snowshoes on. Don't worry I recovered well but we still can't find the bike. For those who may not know what hogmanay means, Oh! never mind everyone knows what that means.
Posted December 27, 2005.
Well it's goodbye to Xmas as well as the year 2005. Time to get your Happy New Year greeting from the curmudgeon, Layz1 and Frosty. That's Mr. Snowman to you. Click here.
Posted December 15th 2005
Just a quick post here to wish you a Merry Christmas from my little buddy and myself. Maybe I should use I here, not sure. Whatever, moving on here, yes just like the skipper on Gilligan's Island I too have a little buddy.
Click here to get your Christmas greeting from us.
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