Busy Week

It has been a busy week at SMR. We worked Saturday, Monday and Wednesday. Wednesday I worked in the craft shop and the pop top belts were a big hit. I also got 4 International students and the Craft Shop Director started on a Swedish Weaving project.

Wednesday evening we took part in a skit honoring the alumni who had returned for a reunion. This world is filled with talented people!

On Thursday we went to a Rockies game at Coor's Stadium in Denver. They played the Yankees and Roger Clemons pitched. There were 5 of us "Seniors" and 3 of the International students on the trip. We had a very good time. Butch and I also decided that when we leave SMR we will be going north to Laramie WY...the same way we came here.

Friday we rested and we needed to! I did meet up with some Swedish Weavers I had met online. Pam and Randa live in Granby and came out for a visit Friday afternoon. We had a very enjoyable visit.

Today we went to the Rowley Homestead which is on SMR property. It was a ranch that was here when the property was sold to the YMCA. It has been maintained as it was found with some donated items added to enhance the place. The Just Ranch is also on the property but those buildings are not being maintained.
We are slowly feeling at home here. I have come to the conclusion that once I feel at home I take better pictures.
So most of the pictures are on the Webshots site so look to your right on this page and you will find the link to Webshots.

Rockies Game

A day at the Ballpark Album

Ballgame Day

More to add later

SMR's Got Talent!

SMR Variety Show

Hot Air

Yesterday morning I spotted a hot air balloon over the mountains.
It was hazy at the time. Summer has reached the Rockies.

Latest

We have a day off today. Butch is immersed in the US Open. I am doing laundry. I hung some sheets on the line and then the wind came up so I went out to take them down and they were dry! A full five minutes had elapsed.
There are 30 departures today from the campground so the hosts working today (not us) will be busy. The work days are getting easier and more enjoyable. It doesn't pay to take 3 years off from the work force. It seems one has a work fitness as well as a mental and physical fitness. It has been good for us to be back!

The weather in the mountains is a very different experience from anywhere else we have ever been. The mountains seem to knock those clouds around like pinballs making it impossible to predict where they may go. We can see the clouds hung up on the divide and we can tell it is precipitating to beat the band and we will remain in sunshine.
People who have been here before are in "Tree Shock" when they come here now. The pine beetles have devastated the area and the effects will be decades in the healing. But the bottom line is that it is still and will remain a beautiful place.