That's right, the temp is supposed to get all the way up to 26 degrees today, so for those of you who aren't here, I'll be you're envious. Then again, maybe not as it might even be warmer where you're at. ...In which case, I'm envious! The weather forecast says that we're gonna get 2" - 4" more snow tomorrow, and it's gonna go back to being colder again. Yep, winter's here. Maybe I should just get used to it, ya think? I'm thinkin' there's no use complaining any more, but I'll probably do some still the same as the weather goes along. I did find my gloves today, so I'll be prepared when the snow starts piling up in the driveway and walks, and I start doing wintertime exercise: snow shoveling.
The health situation here in the Ford house is getting better, albeit slowly. Katie and I still have some congestion in our lungs, James is still mending but planning on going back to work on Monday, and Avery went back to school today. So I'm thinking that everyone will be better by late next week.
Amanda & Katie are in full party preparation mode again, with today being the big push for getting the house ready for Avery's 6th birthday party tomorrow. Katie has drawn on a 2' x 4' sheet of plywood a bean bag toss game which I modified the sheet with holes for the bean bags to fly through, and now she's painting it. I expect the house to be decorated with lots of Curious George stuff later today, and Avery to be in 6th birthday party heaven.
Pretty good representation of George and Hundley, huh?
The Travelogue - The end of June of 2012
By this time, we'd been signed up with the State of Utah to be camp hosts at Bear Lake State Park near Garden City, Ut., but had to postpone our arrival there to be with Jeff prior to his induction into Teen Challenge in Shafter, Ca. I don't remember when we left Amanda's house, but we were hoping to go to Las Vegas one last time for court stuff for Jeff, and then take him directly to Shafter. It didn't happen that way with Jeff being taken into custody to serve a week in jail. This put a large crimp in our plans as we wouldn't be able to take him to Shafter. Luckily one of his friends stepped up and said that she'd make sure he'd get there when he got out of incarceration, thus allowing us to go back to Amanda's and load things up in the moho for our trip to Bear Lake, which is what we did, leaving Amanda's house on the 26th of June.
We went to Bear Lake from Logan, Ut., where we headed northeast on highway 89 which followed the Logan River quite aways, going up to a summit of 7800' just prior to the Bear Lake Overlook, a little bit east of the summit. The view of Bear Lake from the overlook, as well as from the highway, is spectacular, with the pictures below not doing justice to what ya can really see in person.
This is looking east toward Bear Lake with Garden City, Ut., in the foreground.
This is looking kinda southeast at the south end of the lake near Bear Lake State Park. But not far enough south for it to be in the picture. Sorry!
As you can see from the pictures, Bear Lake is a fairly large lake that is about equally shared between Idaho and Utah in the northeast part of Utah at about the 6,000' level. There are at least two marinas on the lake, not counting the boat launch from the state park, or other launches as well. Garden City is the largest town on the lake, with other smaller towns such as Fish Haven, St. Charles, and Laketown. If ya want a nice little day trip, going around the lake would be a good one.
When we got to Garden City, we weren't able to find Bear Lake State Park we were supposed to be camp hosts at right away. After asking at the Bear Lake State Park marina north of Garden City, we just happened to find a ranger who was kind enough to remember that we were going to be arriving that day, and took us to where we needed to be, at the extreme southern end of the lake, got us set up in our campsite (HUGE!), gave us a little talk about who we were to be seeing, a little about what we were to be doing, and let us get set up. Here a picture of what it looked like when we had everything set up a couple of days later looking at the front door of the rig and our front yard. Each campsite is a full hookup site with 50 amp electrical service, sewer and water. While each campsite wasn't secluded by shrubs or hedges, they were far enough apart to provide a certain amount of seclusion. In addition, there is a gazebo at each campsite which a lot of campers had put tarps on one side to shield from the west wind. Obviously they provided an escape from the weather for campers with it being shade on the hot days, and a little dryness for the folks who camped in tents on the rainy days.
There isn't anything behind me when I took the above picture, maybe you can tell that from the picture below. If ya look carefully, you'll be able to see the lake through the trees in the middle of the picture.
But if ya can't see the lake, or imagine it there, here's another picture showing the lake a little better. Ain't telephoto lenses great?
I spoke of the gazebos earlier, but didn't say what the second use was, which was a place for the wildlife to perch, as is seen by the picture below. It wasn't uncommon to find sea gulls on the gazebo peaks, or other places. After all, they are the state bird.
A little while after we got set up, another camp host came over to introduce herself, and let us know a little about what was going on. There was a dinner of all the camp hosts that evening at the local mexican food eatery in Garden City, Cafe Sabor, where we got to meet all of the other hosts, and enjoy the mexican food that was good enough for us to go back there several times while we were in Bear Lake.
Our stay in Bear Lake was for the next two months, but we didn't make it to the annual main attraction in Garden City that summer. Anyone got any ideas as to what it might be?
Have a blessed day!
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