Friday we were back on duty and it was Larry and Sue's last full day with us. It was so sad as we watched them carefully pack the last of their belongs. It was a very busy day with a lot of campers checking in and out. One exciting thing, we saw a mother bear with two cubs just across the inlet from us. The head rangers stopped over to see Larry and Sue before they left and to check with us for the up coming schedule. We will work Thursday thru Sunday and the rangers will do Mon, Tue Wed. We had our last happy hour which ended with hugs and handshakes.
Saturday I had campground host duty while Diane worked the gate house. Larry and Sue headed out around 10 am heading to Colorado Springs for there first stop. Their site looks so odd all cleaned up and empty. I was to busy with the work, so not much time was spent on the cabinet wood. I'll have to get at it tomorrow.
Sunday was very busy day at the lake for Diane at the gate house with her second highest total. A really nice morning so after walking Rudy and a couple cups of coffee, I put the first coat of finish on the trim pieces. I tried to put the second coat of finish on this afternoon with 90 degrees and a strong wind it dried so fast you can see the brush strokes. So I'll have to sand it down again and try Monday morning to put the last coat of finish on.
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| Just waiting for the new refrigerator!! |
Monday after putting the last coat of finish on the trim we went to look at the frig, it is a dent and scratch model and it looked good. The soonest we could get it delivered is on Friday, so we got that scheduled. We had lunch at a little Mexican place, tried the taco's, they were OK but we don't need to go back. When we got back I began working full speed getting the cabinet ready for the frig. By the days end it is almost back together just some finishing touches tomorrow.
Tuesday the cabinet is finished and we now removed the passenger seat so the frig will fit in the door. So we put the seat where the dog kennel was, the kennel where our shoes and wine was stored, that stuff went on top of the removed seat. But now we can only open the tiny frig door half way. You must get on your knees lean over sideways to get stuff in and out of the frig. The good news is, we only have to survive until Friday.
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| A lot of wood gathered over the summer!! |
Wednesday, Shari texted to say the older girls will be up later tonight to camp for the night and then her and the rest of the kids will be up Thursday for lunch and to pick up the fire wood that we have collected over the summer. Diane spent most of the day in town trying to find ham slices or a store that would cut slices from a ham. About 3 hours later, and no luck she changed the Thursday menu and bought some marinated Tri-Tips. So a search of All Recipes and we decided we would have wraps. It has been a long day, this AM we got a call from Ellen, John isn't doing well at all, and it just kind of soured the whole day, but we pushed on. The kids finally got here about 8:00, set up camp and provided for themselves. We did have the Rangers remind that to make sure the fire was out before they went to bed, and by 10:00 we both we in bed and asleep.....no noise from the girls
Brad, Diane and Rudy
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