For Barbara And Richard

Saw this on our drive around Yellowstone and Obviously thought of you 

Geysers of many sources

We have successfully capped the water heater geyser (that was #4) and are able to control the flow on #5 (maybe was  #3 come back).  The only one we cannot contain is pictured below

We are at Yellowstone and that is Old Faithful on its 90 minute or so cycle.

Onward!

Leak #4 repaired.  Moved on to Grand Tetons with only a three hour delay. Leak # 5 (which may be leak # 3 back again in disguise) has appeared, but may be manageable if we keep the water system off pressure most times and only pressurize when actually drawing water.  The water pump is gonna get a workout, but it's all OK.  No pics today, am on a slow cell connection, but at least we are connected!

Some days are better than others

Just a wee problem, and nothing truly serious when you notice all the real problems in the world.  But we have another leak.  #4 is a veritable fountain from the water heater feed line, and until we get that repaired we have no water.  We are In the middle of Wyoming, trying to locate an RV repair facility.  We may have to alter our schedule some, and are not sure where we are headed to next. 

Nope, this is not the fun part.  Just trying to remember that it could be lots worse, and thankful that it is just a repair job.

Squirrel Bombs

Posted a couple of quick pictures yesterday from our drive around Rocky Mountain National Park. We stopped at various turnouts on the loop road, visited two of the four Visitor Centers, and generally just stared at the scenery.  We got 'home' to the campsite in time for lunch, then set up the chairs and started to read a little and simply enjoy our meadow.  Tom decided to take a hike, and he crossed the meadow in front of us and climbed the ridge to our right.  I have pictures of this adventure, but I really need to put arrows on the pictures so you can see him.  But here goes anyway.

The ridge from our campsite.  Tom is actually in this picture, but you cannot see him.  See that bright white puffball cloud that extends slightly left?  Under the biggest puff is a tree that extends into the sky from the ridge line, straight down from that is a small green patch of meadow on the ridge, further down is a shrub in our campsite which is just left of the fence post in the middle of the picture.  Got it? Teeny green patch in line with camp shrub and pine tree on the ridge? Now go one green patch to the left.

Zoomed in as far as I can, Tom is the teeny light colored blip at the top of the green patch along the ridge in front of the pines.  His green patch is the one in the middle of the picture. You can see the stick out pine and the camp shrub in line with the patch to the right.

Shortly after, a light sprinkle started, so I moved the chairs under the pine tree.  

But the tree kept dropping bits of pinecones and tree matter...until I realized I was being bombed by a squirrel much higher up in the tree.  Here is the bombing range behind my chair.

Right after that the rain really started to come down, so we moved inside the Beach House and I started this entry.  It rained for about an hour and we ended having blue skies and fluffy white clouds again.  We will have a light supper tonight and then head out in the morning towards Wyoming where I can get this posted. 

A couple of picture

We are on a drive, here is what we are seeing....

All at Rocky Mountain National Park

Slightly higher west of the Rockies

I wonder how many people even remember that tag line at the end of commercials any more?  We are headed to Rocky Mountain National Park, where I am reliably told we do not have cell service, much less a wifi connection, so I am posting this early in the morning as we depart Colorado Springs and head north.  We will be in RMNP for two days 'roughing it' and will catch up with you all somewhere in Wyoming on Thursday.  If I get lucky and can post a couple of pictures via cell phone on our way in and out, I will.

In the meantime here is today's jewel of irony.  As some of you may recall from our last visit here at USAFA, there is a train track, a busy track, very close by.  Apparently the engineers must (as in are required) blow the horn every fifteen seconds when passing through the academy grounds to warn the wildlife to get off the tracks.  Last night we had a steady stream of trains through from around supper time including at least six from midnight to 6 am.  (Who needs an alarm clock when you have trains like this, right?). But since about 6:30 this morning, NOTHING.  Thank goodness for earplugs.