Slow Paced Rainy, Windy Day

Entry to the park

June 4 – I slept pretty good last night.  Bill went out after breakfast and cleaned the 2 sites.  Then we went out together and weeded.  We only have to weed the gravel sites and not the drive areas.  We figure if we do it every 2 weeks it won’t get out of hand.  We just have to keep the little sprigs out that pop up.  We do weed some of the drive area too if there isn’t much.  While we were weeding one site vacated so Bill raked it while I kept weeding.

Rebecca and Harlan drove over to tell us we had a big box at the office.  We knew it was the kayak and my video camera packed inside.  So we took the Mule and went up to get it.  We got the camera out but will wait until we are ready to use the kayak to take it out of the box.  We put down our grass mat, on the gravel and Bill staked it down.  It seems small but then we have a larger than normal site.  After lunch I made a small rhubarb crisp for dinner.  I was excited to find fresh rhubarb at the City Market in Pagosa.  Made enough crumbs for another small one in a couple of days.  Then I scrubbed my little kitchen floor and worked on email and bills.  Some things don’t stop when you’re on vacation.  Actually I’m not so sure this classifies as a vacation.  Weeding, cleaning and raking, no, that’s not really a vacation.

Here's one of my hummingbirds

Out of no where we got a sudden rain.  Then it was rather sporadic and not much quantity at all.  Bill was getting cabin fever so when it appeared to stop we went for a bike ride around our loop, then it still looked pretty clear we rode over to Tiffany and did a loop there.  Some of the prairie dogs were out and a ground squirrel but no sign of their resident rabbits.  Xena needed to go out when we got back so she did her business and Bill took her for a ride around the loop in the Mule.  She loves to ride.  He rode up to the office just to see if anything was going on and I checked out the website of the Sky Ute Casino in Ignacio.  They have Wheel of Fortune slots!!!  I actually was looking at the restaurants and menus.  None of the hosts have been there so no one knew much other that they have a $6.99 special for a small steak and shrimp.

With the weather we really couldn’t do much outside so we stayed in and read or listened to classic radio shows on Sirius.  For dinner I made meatballs from the 2 links of chicken Italian sausage I bought in Albuquerque and simmered them in Classico sauce that I added some fresh basil to.  I cooked some dry tortellini and when it was close to done I added the leftover tortellini that I didn’t need for the layered salad the other night.  I made salads and that was dinner. 

Once the rain stopped the winds started.  We had strong gusts for several hours.  There was a short reprieve for a while after dinner so we walked Xena and came home to have the rhubarb crisp.  A guy Bill went to high school with called and they talked forever, so I went ahead and ate my dessert and moved on to working on the computer.  There wasn’t anything interesting on TV so we both just read until bedtime.