Dang Me!
May 16th, 2012I just can’t seem to get around to updating my blog lately. Time just goes by and I don’t keep track of “when” I am.
This week, starting last Monday is Rally on the Rocks. We have a gazillion people in here with little 4-wheel drive rock crawlers.

They are smaller than a dune buggy, but if you judge them by sound, they are absolutely huge! Their wheels tear up the road (dirt ‘n gravel roads), and the owners are totally inconsiderate. The louder the crawler, the better it is, the more they can tear up the road, the higher they climb on the “best rig” ladder. The row behind us is what we call the “big rig row”, which will fit RV and tow vehicle or toad without unhooking. A couple of the rigs are so long, it is difficult to navigate the road between us and their row. The front of this rig is supposed to be back where the pole behind the front wheel is. He’s a bit beyond where he should be.

When we worked the Ogden Canyon campgrounds we got frustrated by some of the inconsiderate campers, but they didn’t hold a candle to many of the people we get here. As much as we enjoy Mark and Janie, the owners; and our co-workers, Leslie and Rick; we don’t ever want to come back here. Although the sites are really quite large compared to other commercial campgrounds, for us they are too close together. The worst part of working here is we don’t want to lose customers for the owners here, so we put up with the inconsiderate prima donnas and do our best to accommodate them, when what we really want to do is read them the riot act. This is a perfect job for people who are used to staying in commercial campgrounds and have the skills to deal with prima donnas without stuffing their heads down the toilet.
I have been given permission to put one of my sheppard’s crook plant/feeder hangers out by the tree, so I have a seed feeder, a nyger seed sock, and a hummingbird feeder hanging out by the tree. I’m getting lots of House Finch, & House Sparrow out there, as well as the occasional White Crowned Sparrow. The only Hummingbirds I’ve seen are a couple of female Broad Tail Hummingbirds.
We’ve made our site as much like home as we can. I’ve got a pot of Pansies, and my round table has two pots of Salad Turnips growing and my garlic chives and a Early Girl Tomato plant. The tomato plant has gotten thru the transplant shock and seems to be doing quite well now.
Rick, one of our co-workers, has had electrical issues in his motorhome and his fridge has quite working. Tomorrow we are taking him to Grand Junction to pick up a new fridge for him to install (he doesn’t have a pickup).
One of these days we hope to drive south the evaluate the road down to AZ for grades. We want to go back to AZ that way, but need to check out the road first. Guess we’ll do that during our next 4 days off.
Time for me to head to the recliner.
Ya’ll stay healthy ‘n happy!
Tah!


