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    White Bird Creek draws wildlife and lends atmosphere to the land.    

Boredom is not something we live with at Sweet Spot Ranch, even when relaxing in the back yard. There you find a grove of hackberries that are not only shady and pleasant, but they attract a lot of game animals as well. If you look closely in this picture you might be able to see, just behind the chairs, one of our cats eyeballing a grazing spike buck whitetail.

The yards are well landscaped by now, with a groomed buffer all around the house. Outside of that, it gets wild—just the way we planned. It doesn't feel like a yard, it feels like habitat. The front yard is a little more formal, landscaped to honor the views. Especially in winter, hairy, furry and feathered visitors feel we should share our yards with them. Oh, OK.

With visitors the rivers are always a draw, whether to wade the Salmon, catch one of its steelheads, or maybe a Snake River rainbow.

We don't get much snow in White Bird, but you don't have to travel far to find it. The scenes above are about 8 miles east of us.
 
A 5-point whitetail eating rose hips in our back yard, one of the yard cubs, and a screech owl catching Zs at WB post office.
We shop weekly in Grangeville, 16 miles north of White Bird. It is the county seat so you have the government offices available, as well as all necessary services for day-to-day living: Hospital, grocery stores, restaurants, movie, farm store and building materials outlet etc. Every month or so we drive the 85 miles to Lewiston to stock the pantry with bulk items from Costco, WalMart, and Albertson's (and perhaps to raid Dairy Queen and sack Home Depot). Our trips to Portland have diminished. It didn't take long until we couldn't wait to get out of the traffic and back to the quiet.
This is what eventually happens when a grandaughter visits Grangeville's farm/feed store and says, "Oh, aren't they cute?".
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