Steamboat Springs, CO

Last year we met Mark and Susie through mutual friends and have returned for another visit. They have a log cabin that is incredible. And we're told all the animal heads on the walls sing and tell stories to each other every night. LOL.

Last year when we were here Tommy helped Mark with building a log garage. It was alot of fun cutting and milling the logs and placing them on top of each other and seeing the process up close and personal. This year Mark has finished the building part of it and is now placing siding on it. Tommy, once again, is helping. But not very much....these two guys laugh and play silly jokes on each other more than they work. Susie and I just sit back and supervise, something we both do best!


There have been 2 mountain lions found sleeping on the porch of a house that is only 3 houses away from here and alot of the neighbors have lambs and goats and I would hate to wake up one day and find out that they were attacked. But on the same hand, better them than me!


Roy and Kim live up the mountain from Mark and Susie and it just so happens while we are flying out to GA for Kyles graduation on Monday, Mark and Susie are flying out to the East coast also. Roy and Kim have volunteered to watch our animals while we are gone. The puppy in the pictures is Vladimir. He is a 15 week old Burmese Mountain Dog. Fully grown he will top out around 200lbs, but for now he is a bundle of cute fur. He will be Sire's playmate while we are gone.

Roy and Kim were trying to pick a color for their upstairs walls and purchased a bunch of sample colors. After a couple of weeks, with out a final decision made they decided to leave all the samples and created their own final outcome. It looks really cool.

A few minutes ago we received a phone call from Roy. Kim, who had been away, came home tonight and Sire did not want her in the house. Her house!! Its not fair to her or Roy to deal with the Sire's stress. Tommy will fly back to CO tomorrow and will miss Kyles graduation. I will take many, many pictures for him and clue him in on every detail.We cannot express thanks to Roy and Kim for volunteering to take care of our animals and are very sorry it did not work out with Sire.

 After dropping Tommy off at the airport tomorrow I will drive down to Columbia SC and meet up with Kaitlyn.  Thanks for reading.

A Week in Review

Saturday, June 25, 2011

Its been 10 days since I have blogged. Alot has happened and I have an enormous amount of pictures. I will break the blogs so you are not inundated. Where we were located we could not receive an Internet signal. Even with the Verizon Air Card. As of this past Wednesday we have arrived in Steamboat Springs, CO. The signal here is weak but at least we can access the web. I hope this blog works.

The first couple of pictures are of the new temporary housing unit, for all those who have not seen in it in person. I hope you can get an idea of what our traveling home is like. The part where the Polaris is (the garage) turns into a screened in patio when all the 'toys' are taken out. We use this room alot and the cats love to stare out the back screen all day.

After leaving Moab we headed to Grand Junction, CO. We stayed at a state park along the Colorado River. The first thing we were told when checking in was that they have seen two baby bear cubs roaming around looking for food and could not locate the mother. So beware! Great! I am starting to come to terms with these animals though, as long as I have Sire with me. He will warn me of anything lurking out there. He can smell them a mile away and stops dead in his tracks when he picks up a scent. I'm getting alittle better about it.

While at the park Tommy put a note and a dollar bill in a bottle and threw it in the river. The week prior we put 3 bottles in at Moab. We received 2 phones calls when they were found. We have not heard for my third one or Tommy's as of yet. The river is flowing at an incredible rate of speed. Kayak's and rafters are not permitted to ride for another week or so. The water levels are over all the banks because of the extreme snow melt. They have set records here this year and believe that some mountains will not melt at all this summer. 

While in Grand Junction I was sick for 3 days so we hung around camp and headed into town a couple of times. They have the weirdest street names I have ever seen before. Check out the pictures. Can you imagine telling a 5 or 6 year old to remember his address? Poor kid!

That's it for Grand Junction, not really alot to write about because I was under the weather. Next blog will be more interesting. Thanks for reading and have a good day.