The Mossman’s Arrive

Yeah, scream, shout, happy, happy, joy, joy….The Mossman’s have arrived in South Fork and they have the campsite right across from us here in Beaver Creek Campground.  We meet for happy/social hour every day in our front area around the campfire.

We took them to Lobo Lookout which on top of Wolf Creek Pass.  It is about 11,000 feet elevation.  It was a clear day and you could see for miles.

The Mossman’s computer crashed, so we drove into Alamosa to take it to “Dr. Lory”, my friend, computer guru and mentor.  While there, my Jim wanted to show The Mossman’s his El Camino that we keep in storage.

The Mossman’s will stay with us for the rest of the season and then we will take off and tour the Pacific Northwest together for three months.  Then we will end up mid-November in the Yuma, Arizona, area for the winter.

Jim and I are so very, very happy to have our good friends and traveling buddies back in our lives!!!!  Things are back in balance again.  

Remember, you are loved.

Abeyta Family and Friends

We first met Roberta and Teddy Abeyta at Big Meadows Campground back in 2008, when they had some trouble with a noisy neighbor and Jim had to go play “policeman”.  Teddy is retired and is a Dutch Oven cook-extradinaire!!! 

Teddy sets up a cook tent with several dutch oven stands, a deep fryer and a “disk” made from plowing equipment set atop the burner of a turkey deep fryer. It’s quite the set-up. (Teddy, don’t forget you promised to bring a disk for me when you return on Labor Day weekend!)

This is the dining room tent they set-up right by the creek…see the water in the background? Boy, this is the best of camping!

 

The Abeyta’s camp with 4 or 5 other couples with 2 couples staying 2 miles down the road because they wanted full hook-ups, and 2 other couples rented cabins down the other way. So come dinner time we had cars all over as visitors came to eat.  The Two Lindas were here at the same time, so we had a good crowd for dinner most nights.

Teddy smoking ribs	Sausage on the “disk” with horse-shoe handles
Corn roasting on an open wood fire…yum!	Half a gallon of homemade salsa
Pork cooking on “disk”	Notice the horseshoe handles?
We all ate together	Socializing after dinner.

Richard and Patti had us over to their campground for an enchilada and trout dinner.  Richard has this fancy “Margarator’ that makes a mean margarita…even crushes the ice up first then mixes in everything else for a fine frozen drink.

Richard our Mixologist!	Richard’s cook tent
Richard, Pat and Mike	Shirley, Birdie and Teddy

Marco and “Ma’am”

They all spent about a week with us and Jim and I didn’t have to cook for a week!  They are all very kind to us and include us in all their meals.

We look forward to some of them returning for a week for the Labor Day weekend.  Wonder what we will be eating then???

Remember, you are all loved!!!