our road. That means the road is closed from the
church up. No access to Gold Hill from here. And what
a difference that makes. It is clear the speeders
come from Gold Hill because they have evaporated!
We have the grandest collection of huge machines up
the road that you can imagine. They are quite fantastic.
Yesterday we spent the day at the VA hospital for
Robert's 3-month check-up. We got home about 5 PM
and there was a message from Vernon that the road
crew had cut several trees from beside the road and
he had saved the wood for us, but we needed to get
it ASAP. That is just what we wanted to do at that
point. Robert went down to Vernon's and he and
Vernon loaded Vern's diesel truck with half the
wood and Robert brought it to the barnyard. I was
out watering at that point and saw the load and
no Vernon. Robert and I unloaded the wood and then
went back to Vernon's to get the rest of it. Vernon
again helped to load and we left the wood in the
truck. By this time it was well after 7 PM and we
were both "plumb tuckered."
Today Jens ( a neighbor teen) showed up at 7 AM to
help unload. Robert kept him busy for most of the
morning and he'll be back tomorrow at 7 because
there are more trees being cut.
Last week Jeanne arrived on Thursday and Connie
on Friday for a weekend visit and to go to a Joan
Baez concert. It was great to have both girls
here at the same time.
Saturday evening we met Martha at the Justice
Center in town and the four of us went to Chautauqua
for dinner at the dinning hall and then to the
concert in the auditorium. The food at the dining
hall was fine, but the service was abysmal. We
had 6 o'clock reservations, but had to cancel our
dessert order and I went to the cashier to pay our
bill in order for us to walk across the lawn and
get to the concert on time! We did have a good
time at dinner despite the slow service. We knew
we didn't have far to go and had plenty of time.
Sunday, Martha, Carl and Ariel came about three
to see Jeanne and Connie and for dinner. It was
fun to have them altogether. I was only sad
because Robyn and Janis were missing, but we had
seen them the week before. Ariel was delighted
to have two Aunts to entertain and set out to do
her best.
The Taylor River
The weekend before, from Friday-Tuesday we had been camping in the Gunnison National Forest at the LodgePole Campground. Carl and Martha andAriel caravaned over there with us and for Robyn in Janis it was a short drive from Gothic where Robyn is working again this summer.
Ariel and our TLH at Lodge Pole
Robyn and Janis and the mosquito tent
Carl had invested in a new mosquito net tent to
make a dining room for us so in case of rain we
kept dry and still had a place we could all
get together and no mosquitoes.
The Taylor river was near by and Ariel was over
there whenever she could talk an adult into
joining her there. It was not a place you'd want
to send a child alone...the water was too busy.
The people by the river were all fishermen and
happy to talk fishing and even happier when they
caught something to show off. Ariel soon made
friends with two girls from a nearby campsite
and they had a great time either at the river or
climbing the rocks behind the campground.
The summer continues being busy and fun. The
only down side was that our Internet was down
for 5 days that seemed like forever! It is
amazing how many times we wanted to "Google"
something and were stymied.
