The fall colors are at their high point here in Colorado. Cold has also come in the form of snow and temperatures below freezing, temps in the teens in the high country. This set off a scramble for me to get to our lot and winterize the RV trailer.
I had driven up with the Honda on Wednesday, October 2, as I needed to turn on the RV’s furnace. A few days later, Saturday the 5th, I went up again with the truck to finish the winterization tasks and bring home a load of firewood.
Winterization of an RV includes taking the trailer to the dump station and draining all the holding tanks. I drained the hot water heater, fresh water tanks, and used the built-in water pump to put RV anti-freeze in the water lines. All “freezable” items, food and bathroom, were removed and brought home. A few other items were brought home as well, such as coats and sweatshirts. When we go to the lot again we will just have to bring a few more “things” along with us, but I think the cold temps have pretty much put an end to any major work outings.
The highlight of both trips was viewing the fall colors. Below you will find several photos and a video (run time 7:15) of the fall colors around and on our lot.
Sweep of color down to South Park
View from RV trailer is excellent
View from RV trailer main window
Aspen along “wilderness road”
Our tree-lined driveway
(Incidentally, the driveway was formally approved by Park County this past week, one year after we applied.)
Leaves starting to fall off trees
These next two photos show the difference between where we have cleaned up the down dead wood and trees and where we have yet to work.
Note dead and down trees on ground. This is the “before” photo
“After” photo. Note cleaned-up ground under the trees
I shot some video around the lot. Here is a 7:15 clip taken over both trips.
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That’s it for now. Thanks for looking in!
Pam’s Two Cents Worth:
I was going to drive up to Sanderling (with the dogs, in the Honda) this weekend and join Jer at the lot, but the hard freeze in De Beque required me to stay home and make sure the plants/kittens/outdoor cats stayed warm. Early weather reports also predicted snow flurries over the mountain passes, and I’m not much of a winter snow driver. As it turned out, no flurries and I may have missed the golden aspens in the grove we’ve been working on all summer. Maybe next year.
Sinbad, the outdoor adolescent kitten we just paid to have neutered, disappeared this week. Why is it, just when you spay or neuter an animal, it either disappears or gets hit by a car? When the sadness of rescue (death and disappearance) is not balanced by the joy (births and adoptions), it’s time.to.quit.
Happy trails.
No worries on video format or length from my perspective.
As early as the cold was, it could have been worse — might have gotten some of the snow dumped on Wyoming & the Black Hills…
When you make the screen large, it’s almost like being there. Really pretty Jer and well done – nice and smooth.
oooh, pretty colors!! makes it all worth it-i love fall–cept it’s always followed by winter darn it 🙂
ah yes pam–it seems everytime we neutered or spayed some cat out on the farm that showed up it disappeared…i just told myself it didn’t appreciate our efforts and went elsewhere