A Lot With A Little

Mother Nature can do a lot with just a little bit of rain.

Boat Ramp

Guests have been dragging kayaks up and down the boat ramp and the bottoms of three of the singles now have holes in them. I've taken the rest of them down to the bottom of the boat ramp and now you have to carry them maybe five feet or so. I'll see how the other hold up once I've gotten them repaired.

Two Weeks

It's hard to believe how quickly the days go by. I thought it had been three or four days since I did a post on the blog but it's almost two weeks. Did a little trip to Chicken Corner. Walked around to the other side. Evenings are always incredible at Chicken Corner.

There's always a lot of work to do and we've been missing out on our daily hikes so occasionally we'll jump in the side by side and head up to Hurrah to walk around.

Jax is doing well. I think he's about eight years old now. He can still hike like crazy and his athletic skills don't seem to be diminishing like mine.

We usually just take the 2022 Polaris which I've claimed for myself. It's nice to have something that hasn't eventually been absorbed by the lodge.

Dripping Springs

Teresa, Jax, and I hiked back into Dripping Springs still trying to find that petroglyph that is back there somewhere. I went to Moab Tour Company and they described where the guy was that gave them the picture of the petroglyph but I still can't find it so I'll take a map and have them point next time.

Dripping Springs is such a neat place with so much different kinds of stuff back here. I've neglected it over the years. I won't anymore

Little More Stuff

Hiked up Jackson Ladder with some guests and took them to see the coolest petroglyph of the Spanish Conquistador. So hard to see it though it's so finely drawn.

Visited a couple of pottery sites I know and of course left all the pottery there and no pottery was harmed during the trip or picture taking.

Pretty dramatic views from the top of the Amasa Back.

Linny's Jeep has had a death wobble in it for awhile so dropped it off at Nations. They called said it was ready. I drove it up to Jackass Joe's on I-70 and it ran great so one day I'll get in the Jeep, drive to San Diego and switch out my other truck and Linster will have her Jeep again.

Stuff

I bought new walkies and then Collin switched them all over to Channel 35. For years they've been on the emergency channel out here which is 21 but it turned into constant chatter. No one seemed to know it was the emerency channel and now the days and nights are quiet without all the constant chatter of people passing by. I don't think we've had anybody on our channel since he switched over a month or two ago and it's nice and quiet again. Still once or twice a year at 2am I'd hear a voice asking if anybody is monitoring the emergency channel and then I'd help them as much as I could or go rescue them.

We got up into the 100's for a few days and it will be off and on for another week or two but usually by the third week of June somewhere it goes in the 100s and stayes there until 2nd week of September or so.

Three vehicles driving slow flying a drone above them.

Have all three sie by sides back for the first time in a long time, three of the four trucks, and one day soon I'll drive out to San Diego, give Linny her Jeep back and bring back my 4th truck.

Jax is good, eight years old now, still can outhike anybody I know.

Life, Then, it got weird

You thought we were there already. Doug said he was meeting with them again and could he negotiate for me. I told him sure, that's fine. But I got nowhere to go, don't want to go, and I'm not sure there is a price. He said he wants $10 million for his hogan ahd he'll get me 18 million. I said Doug, I got nowhere to go. He said have them carve out a spot on the property that you can keep. I told him I feed a lot of critters and they are my friends. I don't want to uproot them, I can imagine what would happen if they came in with the bulldozers. I don't think I'll sell.

Somebody has gotten busy at the Chicken Corner sign

The river has peaked and is going down an inch or two a day. Mud at the bottom of the ramp where we put the kayaks in.

Jax and I went up on top of the cliffs to see what work was going on across the river and ran into this monster.

More Life

Then I started hearing they were with the Ammon Group which owns a couple hundred luxury hotels. The closest one being "Ammonguiri" in Utah down by Page at a place called Canyon Point. It's luxury alright. The cheapest room I found was $2,400 per night, and houses a little better than mine which rent on average for about $400 rent for $5,000 per night and best I can tell they are sold out forever. The rumor is they are dumping $160 million into it. When I looked all their closest resorts were 600 to 800 acres. That only gives them 135 acres over there. They'll probably be looking to expand. Doug seems to think so, he wants 3.8 million now. He said since they paid 6 to 8 million for that place mine is probably worth at least 10 million.

Doug came by and said the guy in charge emailed him and said he wanted to meet but it wasn't him that showed up, it was his dad, and he ask lots of questions about me. Then he emailed me and said he wanted to meet. When we did it was the dad again. He ask a lot of questions about Doug. I ask him what they are going to do with the place and he said they don't know. I said you're blasting out all the rooms that were there and never used and now they look big enough to drive a train through them. He said they are testing the ceilings for how much strength they have. He ask where I grew up and I told him Taylorsville in Salt Lake. I told him I don't know anybody that pays 6 million for a place and doesn't know what they are going to do with it. He said "Sometimes people in Taylorsville are just smarter than everybody else." We verbally danced for awhile and then he came to the point. Did I want to sell? I told him I wanted to retire but I had really good people working here right now and I am mostly retired. I was going to buy Doug's hogan on the hill until you guys got crazy and overpaid so much for the place across the river. Now, no chance of that happening.