A few photos

It’s been a quiet week. I am using this lull to catch up on some miscellaneous stuff. Here are a couple of left-over photos that didn’t get used elsewhere. The first shows where Park County is in relation to the rest of the state:

Park County is right in the middle of the state. Map courtesy of Park County.

Park County has the highest average elevation of any of Colorado’s counties, well over 9,000 feet. Our property is located near the top of the left-hand ‘bump’ in the county profile. This is about 100 miles (more or less) outside Denver.

This photo gives a closer look at the county of South Park. Fairplay is just below and to the left of the letter “S” and our place is about 23 miles south-east of  that.

Park County map courtesy of the Park County web site.

Back to the lot itself, our Doug Fir starts are showing signs of stress due to the transplant. The trees along the edge of the driveway, not the slope, are doing OK though. The soil here has more organic material in it and should help  these trees take root.   Pam had made, by hand, about a dozen tree guards to protect these starts from grazing (open range) animals.

Pam’s tree guards protecting young Doug Fir

I’ve mentioned a few of my toys; here is a photo of  few of them on the lot. This was taken over Memorial Day weekend.

Jer’s toys include this ATV, dump cart, and truck

Note the few extra tools in the truck including a chain saw and 2-wheel hand cart.

Our next trip to the lot will probably be over Father’s Day, with another long weekend planned over the 4th of July. Getting the gate posts in and set will be the next big project. I am not looking forward to digging those holes as it will require breaking up a lot of rock to make them deep enough.

I did have a bit of a treat last weekend; my good friend and former college roommate, Jon Bjornson, flew into Denver. He was heading for a job interview in Casper, Wyoming, and we arranged to meet for lunch on Monday the 10th. I went over as far as the Sanderling lot on Sunday the 9th (by motorcycle) and stayed overnight in the RV.  Monday morning I rode into Denver and met with Jon at our agreed-upon lunch spot. We had a good chat (but not as in-depth as Pam would have liked). At any rate, here is a photo of the motorcycle at the lot plus a picture of Jon and me at lunch:

Bike with trailer on our lot.

Jon and myself at lunch in Denver

Jon later reported the interview seemed to go well. Now the wait to see if a job offer materializes.

Pam has trapped a kitten in our garage and named him Sinbad. He’s a cute little tyke but it remains to be seen if he can be domesticated enough to be adopted as a house cat, or if he will become another of the outside cats that use our garage as a base of operations.

Sinbad the Kitten

You can see his ears and nose are still pretty dirty, but his markings are already well-pronounced.  He won’t let Pam touch him yet, he really needs to be cleaned up.

I used to work on these posts on Sunday mornings but that just isn’t working out with our summer activities, so check back in any time during the week and you may see a new post.

That’s it for now. Thanks for looking in!