Friday, July 25, 2014

July in Utah

Sunday was another work day, not to bad about 300 people going down the river.  Brad did manage to get a picture of  'how not to pack your raft'.  I am still amazed at the amount of people who camp
Can you say 'FULL'
on the river.  We left at 1:00, heading home, only to find the long horn sheep in the middle of the road, they seem to be residents of our hill top.  After that it's a light lunch, nap and then off to the Greendale Overlook to make some phone calls.  I talked to Dad and Lynne, while Brad and Rudy headed out on their 4 mile hike back to the CG.  When I pulled in there is a Travel Trailer blocking the road, friends of Fred and Judy's came up for a visit.  I park, head inside and clean the lettuce we have for dinner, then as Brad and Rudy head in, everyone is outside to meet, including the new dog in the neighborhood.  Brad and Rudy have some water, then Jim stops over for our evening happy hour.  We are planning on salad with left over steak for dinner, but the wind started to pick up, so we packed up all of our salad fixin's and headed to Jim's 5-wheel for dinner.  We had a wonderful meal, with ice cream topped with fruit soaked in Rum and Bourbon, wow, that was delicious.  After that the wind died down, so out for a camp fire, I did dishes, then joined the Brad and Jim.  We did all wonder what might have happened to the CG host at the Red Canyon CG, he was there Saturday evening and the next morning he was gone.  Fred stopped over to share some stories, then he headed in, with Brad and I following about 9:00.  Jim stayed out for a while, then put the fire out before he headed in.  Another nice day. 

Monday and Tuesday were work days. We had a gotten a Trail Mix that we didn’t care for, so Monday when we went to work I put it on a shelf that was set up to put bird seed on. It did entertain me for the day as the Blue Jays came in and cleaned it up. Chris stopped by in the morning to pick up the weekend money, then he left us know that Jim was going to be the only one working on Thursday (Pioneer Day, a state holiday) and he was worried about how busy the boat ramp area would be. Somehow they managed to schedule 4 of the regular Forest Service guys for training that day, so what do we do, we offer to help them out and work on Thursday. We left about 12:30, headed into Dutch John to drop off our time sheets, but the office building was locked. OK we’ll do that another day, so we headed home, let Rudy out, eat lunch and take our daily naps. After that Brad and Rudy went for their daily walk, while I ran the sweeper and cleaned up inside. Then we had a nice evening with Jim, he made chicken and broccoli for dinner, a nice chat after that, then off to bed for us all. 

Tuesday was a pretty slow day at the spillway, only about 150 people headed down the river. The most interesting thing of the day was a marmot that was running around the parking lot all morning. At one point he was sitting on the jersey barriers when a car went by, he just flopped down and played dead, when the car moved on, he got up, but then it backed up again, and he went back to playing dead…how funny. Brad took a picture of one of the dory’s as the guide attached a camera on

Not sure if they'll catch fish
but they'll get photos

the front and the back of the boat thinking that might take some interesting picture. We also had a couple from the Utah State University, coming down to do some water and bug samples, better them than me. We ended up closing about 12:00 and headed back into Dutch John. This time the office was open so we headed inside to drop off our time sheets and talk with Nan for a few minutes, it seems that 3 of the guys got done with their training early, so we don’t have to work on Thursday….yea. We headed home and decided to do my birthday dinner tonight, so a nap for both of us, then we got cleaned up and headed out to the Red Canyon Lodge. The meal was fabulous and you have to buy wine by the bottle, so they corked what we didn’t drink and we headed out. First we did the drive around the lake, back to check out Mark’s ranch, and then we turned around and headed for the overlook. We walked around there until dark, finishing the wine and had a great evening. Back home, a short walk or two for Rudy then off to bed.   

 Wednesday was our run to Vernal day, Thursday there are parades in town, so we didn’t want to try to do our shopping then. First stop was Patty’s Salon but she is too busy so she can’t cut my hair, then one or two other stops before we headed to the ‘Quarry Brewery’ for lunch (very good). I ended up at another place for a haircut, while Brad did some shopping for himself. After that Brad dropped me off at the grocery store and headed off first to Ace Hardware to get some light bulbs and second to wash the car. He got back just as I was checking out, so we loaded up the car and headed home. We got home, let Rudy out, put all the groceries away and were just pouring a glass of wine when Jim and Freida came out side. It seemed like we all had late lunches and nobody was really hungry, so we ended up with Camembert Cheese, Crackers and grapes for dinner, not bad for a light meal. We all chatted for a while more and headed in about 8:30, Jim has to work again tomorrow and we are making plans for Thursday and our trip to Wyoming. 
 
 Thursday was my birthday, and I want to thank everyone for the birthday text and facebook wishes. And today, Friday, I’ll go to the visitor’s center and see what Melanie bought me for my Birthday using Facebook. Continuing on with the story, we headed out about 8:30, stopping at the Flaming
Gorge Resort for to go breakfast burritos, then down the road to the Red Fleet State Park Dinosaur Trackway. It’s a 3 mile round trip, moderate to strenuous hike to see the dinosaur tracks in the rocks at the edge of the Red Fleet Reservoir. The hike was a little tough, nothing like scaling up and down rocks, walking through soft sand to see a couple of old dinosaur prints in the rocks. We stopped on the way out for a much needed water and carrot break, but the skies were getting darker so we cut the break short and headed back out. It took us about 3 hours to do the whole trip, never getting rained on, so we took another break when we got back to the car. After that we headed further out the road finding a couple of ranches, interesting and beautiful view and a couple of dispersed camping sites. We then headed home, had a light lunch and the three of us took a nap. We don’t have to make dinner tonight, Don and Jan are making a stew and corn bread for us all, so I made brownies, and we waited for dinner to be ready. Judy and Fred have friends up visiting, John and Sylvia, so about 5:30, the four of them came out with cheese and crackers for an appetizer and about 6:00 it was time for dinner. The stew was good, kind of like vegetable soup with sausage instead of beef, not too bad. After dinner we had brownies and the rest of Jim’s homemade ice cream for dessert, then Brad and Jim started a campfire and all nine of us stayed out for a while. It was a fun day and nice evening, I couldn’t have asked for a better birthday.
 
Pictures from our hike and the drive after that:
 
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