Season Winding Down

Jim in front of tree that fell on it's own last week across a handicap bridge to the lake. It was about 25 feet tall - or long since it was now laying down ha-ha.

Last weekend was our last BIG weekend. This weekend we could feel that the season is winding down. From now on we'll have very few campers during the week with locals coming in on the weekends only. Our revenue goes down by half or more. We still have three weeks or so to go before we leave around Sept 12th although the campgrounds are officially closed Sept 7th.

It is pretty chilly at night and in the mornings. Most mornings (like today) there was "frost on the pumpkins" as Jim enjoys saying. We have a lot of personal wood that we have gathered so last night we started a campfire early and feed it for a few hours. We need to burn up all this wood we've gathered. Jim cooked a great dinner of barbeque ribs. It was a very enjoyable evening.

Our camphosts up here in Big Meadows had to leave Friday morning as their daughter had to have heart surgery and they wanted to be home to be with her. So Jim and I are alone here once again. We hope to move another camphost from another campground up here to help us out for the rest of the season.

So hopefully, with things slowing down, Jim will be able to go fishing more often and I can sit outside and knit without so many interruptions. It's frustrating to be working on a tricky part of knitting instructions and someone comes up and wants to change their reservation site because it isn't as pretty as site so-and-so. UGH!!!!!

We are both getting antsy to get moving again. Sitting in one place for four months is a little too long for us. We consider ourselves fulltime rvers and not snowbirds.....I like to move around ever few weeks or so.

Lesle and Bill are driving over from Pueblo today for a visit - we are so-o-o-o excited to see them. Being around campers are different than being around fellow fulltime rvers. We just see life differently. So it will be nice to talk with them again. Bless their hearts, it's a six hour drive round trip for a visit of a five to six hours. Good friends they are!!! Of course we have a lot to talk about as we are all attending the Chapter 2 Colorado Rally here in South Fork September 15-18, we are going to the Balloon Festival in Albuquerque together, working at Amazon.com together and then traveling to Quartzsite together - or maybe southern Texas. They will join our camphost weekly potluck.....pasta bake today.

Oh, fifth-wheel pulling in - best go. Remember, you are loved!!!