January 29, 2009

We are home!!!! After skiing 2 days, we found out how old and out of shape we are. We decided it was the wisest decision to come on home before we hurt ourselves playing in the snow. We won't go back to Ruidoso to ski. The man=made snow is so hard to ski on. We LOVE Brianhead, Utah....great snow and no lift lines. Since we have the extra time available, back to Utah next time.

January 26, 2009

Most all of the snow in southern NM has melted in the last 2 weeks!!! We drove up to Ski Apache, got our lift tickets and skis. WOW!!! Only man-made, slushy snow ...hard work and proves how much we are out of shape.

It is amazing how fast plans change. We were hoping to go to Wyoming this summer, maybe work at Yellowstone. Today we got a call from the NWR manager we worked for at Brazoria. He is now in CO and asked us to work with him this summer helping set up a new environmental education program. So now we will be in southwest CO from June thru August. Life is so much fun!!

January 25, 2009

We went to the International Space Hall of Fame. It was very interesting with several space craft. To me the most interesting was the re-entry craft. After that we went to the White Sand National Monument. Miles and miles of gypsum sand dunes. Our interpretive volunteer was very knowledgeable and so helpful Wish we would have had some cardboard so we could have slid down the dunes!! We saw an absolutely beautiful sunset.

January 24, 2009

Today was so much fun!!! Todd, Mandy and Casey joined us in Ruidoso for the week-end. We drove up to Cloudcroft to snow tube but NO SNOW!! So back to Ruidoso to Winter Park tubing area. They have manmade snow soooooo lots of fun!!

January 23 2009

Today was spent driving to Ruidoso. We left Leisure Resort about 7:30 am to go to Georgetown and leave CoCoa at Tanya's house for the week. She will be playing with the big dogs! We FINALLY got on the road about 9am. We drove and drove and drove thru West Texas......lots and lots of West Texas.

January 22, 2009

Yesterday and today have been really busy work days. Lots of people are making reservations and deposits for this summer. Leisure Resort is almost full over all the major holidays. The park is right on the San Marcos River so it is really a popular spot for tubing....of course, if Texas doesn't get some much needed rain people are going to have to carry the tubes over the rocks!!

Tomorrow we are off to another adventure. We are going to Ruidoso, NM to play in the snow. Our oldest son, daughter-in-law and grand-daughter are joining us for a couple of days. CoCoa will be playing with Tan's dogs while we are gone. So besides working today, having old friends visit and the usual dad-to-day stuff, we were supposed to pack but guess we will do that in the morning. Nothing like saving things for the last minute.

January 20, 2009

Back by popular demand!!! A friend (Bill6) assured me that people really do read this blog and are interested in our day to day activities. So here goes!

This weekend was really great as we camped with our Rigs-A-Mortis camping club. Now that we are fulltimers, we only get to camp with them about once a year as it is too much to load up our home for 2 or 3 days. As always this group of good friends is so much fun and WAY TOO MUCH but very, very good food.

Now it is back to our grind of work. We are workcamping at Leisure Resort RV Park this winter. We work 4 days and then are off 12. Such a hard life. We work this week and next week we are going to Ruidoso, NM skiing and to play in the snow. Todd, Mandy and Casey are joining us for a couple of days. Life is good!!