Busy Week

Home Sweet RV (Graphic by Hensley Manufacturing)

Yes, it has been a bit longer than normal since my last post, but it has been a very busy interval.

🙂 Felicity came for a visit.

🙂 Worked on the Sanderling lot.

🙂 Attended an IT related event in Denver.

Our daughter Felicity returned from her month in Wales and stopped by for a visit. I picked her up in Denver on the 13th. (She was with us until the 19th.) Driving through Denver, not fun. Man, what traffic! I was late getting to the airport but, thanks to the magic of cell phones, I was able to call Felic and let her know what was happening. Getting out of Denver was also a real trick as Friday rush hour traffic is horrendous. Eventually we made it to a diner for a meal and eventually to the RV for the evening.

It was very good to see Felicity (been about a year) and we spent a few hours in conversation, catching up with her news about working abroad and traveling, and news from “stateside” that she had not been aware of. Felicity had a good time in Wales but due to her “working vacation” did not have as much time to go sight-seeing as she would have liked. She lost the use of her digital camera (a drop resulted in a broken screen) and had to resort to using her cell phone camera, not as good in quality but better than nothing!

Pam and the dogs joined us at Sanderling on Saturday and the rest of the weekend was spend talking, loading wood destined for the burn pit (4 loads on Saturday) and more lot clean-up on Saturday evening and Sunday morning. Sunday afternoon we packed up and headed home. Pam and Felicity (and the dogs) had the Honda and  were planning to go home via the Boreas Pass route, but Pam found signage in Como indicating the route was still closed — surprising as the pass is normally open by Memorial Day.  After a quick (!) tour of Como they headed home by our regular route through Fairplay and over Hoosier Pass.

Pam and Felicity clearing dead wood

Felicity on Pam’s Pavilion Point

Once the ladies had departed, I took the truck and RV over to the dump station and emptied the holding tanks, then returned to the lot to re-park the RV. Sure like that pull-through driveway! Once that was done I hooked up to our aluminum trailer, which we had filled with a load of wood to bring home to cut into firewood.

Sunday was Father’s day, and Pam surprised me with a sign:

Jerry with his Father’s Day sign

We’ll put the sign up over the door of the RV. It sure is appropriate and I like it.

Other photos of the weekend:

Blondie in the woods

Blondie saw a squirrel and could not be kept away from the tree she “thought” it was in. (We could see the squirrel in another nearby tree.) Kept her occupied quite a while. That dog has a one-track mind.

Other photos:

Humming bird feeder was put out in the circle

Harebells blooming on the lot

So…we were all home by Sunday night. Monday night I was in Denver getting ready to attend an IT (Information Technology) conference / trade show on Tuesday. That went well, but it was after 10:00 PM when I arrived home (Denver to De Beque, pretty much across the majority of the state) on Tuesday night. High wind had caused a power outage in De Beque; Felicity and Pam were sitting and talking in candlelight. (Power was out for about an hour and a half.) Wednesday I was back at work. Thursday I took Felicity to Denver so she could catch her flight to Albuquerque, New Mexico (visiting friends there).  After dropping off Felic at DIA, I routed through South Park to check the RV on the way home. While I was there I put out our hummingbird feeder. I also relieved the mousetrap under the bathroom sink of a dead mouse…still dealing with them getting into the trailer!

I drove around 1,600 miles this week, quite a bit of mileage considering I didn’t leave the state!  Yes, it was a crazy week; to and from Denver three times in one week is a record for me, one I’m reluctant to repeat soon.

I plan to take off on my 2 week motorcycle trip to Ontario, Canada on June 24th.  I’ll be busy getting ready for the trip this weekend. The length of the cycle trip means no posts for a couple weeks, by the way, until after July 6th. Even then it will take me a while to go though the trip photos and get a post ready; there won’t be a new post to this blog until mid-July.

On the return side of my Canada trip I’ll spend some time visiting family in Wisconsin. It has been a couple years since my last visit and I am looking forward to seeing a number of people again. I should have quite a bit of material for my posts when I return.

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

Pam’s Two Cents Worth:

Now that both children have been to Sanderling, they can appreciate the “grunt” work their parents are putting in to clear the property.  I couldn’t resist having Felicity do a bit of wood gathering while visiting the high country – three sets of hands greatly improves the pace of dead wood removal.

Felicity’s digital nomad existence is past the honeymoon stage (the work/vacation trip to Wales).  Now comes the real test – can she organize her time to work on-line while on the road?  I think she’s missing her “nest” of personal belongings.  Her road takes her back to Portland, OR soon (and familiar surroundings) for a period of housesitting.

While Fields takes his motorcycle jaunt for two weeks,  I consider that period my vacation as well.  I’ve arranged to work a different schedule at the community college — from now to the end of June — to maximize my days working at home and minimize the commuting time.

The jazzy plaid pants in the photo above are actually my fleece pj bottoms.  It was a brisk morning…

Happy Trails.