Living Positive: Home Again

Monday/Tuesday, August 21/22, 2023

We sadly had to say goodbye to our Wyoming friends on Monday morning and made the long journey back to Colorado. We decided to land in Grand Lake so that we could water the trees and check on the DD Lodge rebuild. It was a long (8.5 hour) trek. I’m sure glad that Don likes to drive!

Somewhere after our gas stop near Rawlings, one of our side trailer windows shattered and we didn’t discover this until our stop in Walden. We added this to our growing list of “things to fix” on the trailer. Unfortunately I’m sure we won’t get an appointment at our RV repair shop until October or November. In the meantime we will close the window off with plastic and look like Colorado hillbillies for the rest of the season.

It is nice to be back in Grand County but I sure wish that we could have relocated some of those abundant trees from the Pacific Northwest here!

Our baby trees are doing pretty good although something (deer,moose?) randomly pull the tree cages out and chew on the flags but thankfully not the trees. Voles are a bigger problem in that they dig tunnels under some trees and we have to dig them back out. Sometimes those rascals pull the tree down into their hole. I guess that’s why we planted over 100 trees!

The rebuild is going great and the builders are working their hardest to get everything done on the outside so they can be working on the inside this winter. All of the windows are in except one big sliding door, the garage has been dry walled and ready for texture. The plumbers are trying to finish the basic pipes so they can then start on the in floor heating. It’s a busy place.

As I’m writing this Don is busy negotiating the potholes on Berthod Pass! They finally started repaving it yesterday. They better look in all the holes before they cover them up because there might be small vehicles in some of them!

We had a very fun trip but it’s good to be home. However, the fun isn’t over for we leave for another adventure on Friday. Stay tuned!