Barbeque Rib Party

We are really enjoying our time here in Big Meadows Campground in the Rio Grande National Forest. Several of our campers stay for one or two months. Two are retired firefighters from Oklahoma City. We met them three years ago and visited them in Oklahoma City last year. They are a great group and we have so much fun together. The "kidding" goes on for hours! All the men are good cooks and they have invited us to many of their fish fries and Tostado Parties. So we decided to reciprocate and had them over last Tuesday for barbeque ribs. Jim smoked and grilled five racks of baby back ribs and a couple of packages of country style ribs. Oh, mama, did they come out good. We used Sweet Baby Ray's barbeque sauce spiced up a little with Chalula hot sauce. Everyone brought the side dishes complete with black forest cake made in a dutch oven over coals.....what a treat. Our new camphosts, Rudene and Wales, are a blessing to have with us. They are competent, kind and very conscientious. And Rudene plays a mean harmonica!!

Jim did a bang up job with the ribs and everyone ate themselves silly!

Remember - - - you are loved!

July 4, 2009

We had a big weekend for the 4th of July at the campground. We actually filled up the 53 site campground! That doesn't happen too often so we were pretty proud. We had to do everything ourselves since we lost our camphost couple. But it went pretty smoothly without any hitches or unruly campers. Everything was quiet and without incidents.

Here is a photo of how I do all the paperwork here in the mountains. There isn't much room in the rig to spreadout when I do my week end paperwork, so I go outside under the awning and do it. Works out pretty well.

Bill and Lesle came over from Colorado City last Sunday and joined our Sunday potluck with our camphosts. Jim and I had challenged the camphosts to come in at 25% labor cost to income and if they did we'd buy them steaks for Sunday. Well they did and thankfully Jack's Market had T-Bones on sale, so Jim barbequed 12 steaks to serve.

Bill joined Jim in a ride up to Tucker Ponds to bring that host to the potluck and while driving this little head appeared outside the truck between the hood and the windshield. Jim stopped and picked up this little, baby ground squirrel. He figured he had crawled in the engine to keep warm. That baby squirrel had no fear of humans and let Jim handle him easily; he climbed from Jim's hand, up his arm and perched himself on Jim's shoulder. Jim walked around the campground for a good hour and that squirrel never left his shoulder!

Jim and Bill figured the squirrel's mother was waiting out there for him so he went back to where the truck had been parked and sure enough, mama was squeeling like crazy for her baby.

Jim put him down and off Chipper went to join mama.

Cute photos though!

We even took a "family portrait" :)

A few people asked for some additional photos of our campground so here you go.

The photo on the left is the view from our rig. Big Meadows is really pretty. It is at 9,300 feet in south-central Colorado, 11 miles west of the town of South Fork, and about 9 miles from the top of Wolf Creek Pass.

Well, that's it for now, dear friends, until next time I go do laundry, which is where I am right now. I can get one bar on the aircard up at the rig and here at the South Fork Campground laundramat I get five bars, so the photos upload real quick.

Since we have camphosts now maybe Jim and I can get a day off ----- first one since May 8th!!! I think we deserve it. We plan on driving to Mancos and visit Fay and Jay.

Good day and remember, you are loved!!!