I went to Rock Springs this weekend, to meet up with Missus and drive home together. It was a half way point, or so, for her from her business trip. The girls and I went over, met her, and then we all stayed the night in a hotel, before driving back together this morning. I have put communications radios into both vehicles now, so we were able to talk back and forth. It was nice to be able to talk, and to have fun while doing it. It seems we discovered a secret of OTR truckers, in that they must be using CB’s to help stay awake. Having someone there made it easier to keep alert.
We stopped off a few times for breaks, and to take pictures. We even got to stop off at Little America, an old tradion for me going back to the trips I used to take back and forth a couple of times a year with my grandparents when I was a kid. On the stop there while driving out, I made sure to get the girls some 75 cent ice cream cones.
The aspen leaves across the forrest were yellow this time over, and had fallen off on large swaths of trees, while stands next to them were still in place. Last week there were reds and a little yellow. It is amazing how much it has changed in a week, and it is amazing how much things change with the eleveation. The top of the mountains was well close to their winter state, while the lower elevarions near the valley we more or less just beginning to make the autumn change.
After we got home, I soon fell asleep to make up for the moment at 1AM when I woke up and could not get back to sleep at all. I slept for two hours! To make up for it, I went out after and watered the animals and then split a bunch of firewood. I covered the logsplitter and some of the wood in preperation for tomorrow’s anticipated rains. After the rain tomorrow, we are expecting the temperatures to drop between ten and twenty degrees, putting us more on course for autumnal temperatures.
That’s about what’s been going on lately.
Worth a mention. The hotel we stayed at was realy reassuring because all the while I laid awake, I could smell the bleach reaking from the bedding, and that gave a sense of security against the Coronavirus. Then, when I woke up, I found ants crawling on the floor next to the bed, and in the shower, I found some mess that was not likely from any of us, making me rething the cleanliness of the hotel.