Still More, Just Stuff

When Blackburn dropped off 1700 gallons last week I have a lot more left over at the north Last Hurrah side of the property than I did at the lodge. I can get propane in bulk under $2.50 a gallone while taking the small tanks to town cost around $4.50 per gallon. There are hoses, don't know their real name, but in the propane business they're call "cheaters". Where you can pump propane out of your large tanks into the small ones that are hooked up to Little and Big Buddy heaters. Thus saving about $2.00 per gallon. Currently in the little tanks that go in the rooms I'm going through about 30 gallons a week. The cheater hoses will save about $60 per week and leave a lot more room in the back of the truck saving money and a trip or two to town.

To increase revenue without raising prices I need more occupany and I am adding three more booking sites that I'll have my listings on.

Teresa made a trip to town today so Jax and I caught a ride up Hurrah and hiked back down.

More Just Stuff

The property income looks like it's going to finish about what it was last year. However I sold all my stock in Let's Play last year which I had been taking monthly installments on for 15 or so years so with that gone the monthly income to me has been down signifcantly this year. On the upside however payroll and vehicle repair are doen a lot this year and that's really helping.

Passes some park service guys coming back from town and ask them what they had been doing out here and they said "Putting up some sign."Most of the area and a part of my property has been absorbed by Bears Ears National Monument. For many years when I directed people to the Wind Caves I'd tell them to take the first left, there's no sign, some punk stole it years ago. But that's not true anymore.

Somewhere in the second picture below there is a little dog chasing cows.

Just Stuff

Took some work the beginning of this year to get a propane truck out here that came all the way down from Roosevelt Utah. Somehwere around 10 plus hours all said and done. This year they wanted $150 per hour on top of the gallon bill is I didnt have 2,000 gallones. Blackburn Propane out of Bicknell Utah, also a pretty good drive. came out with no delivery charge. They have some accounts in Moab so they were coming this way anyhow. Saved about $1,300.

I had a cancellation last week. The guy saw the weather forecast and it said rain and snow while he was here. I"m under the belief that the forecast is by zip code so Grand and San Juan counties have all sorts of varying elevation. I'm at 4,100 elevation. Hurrah is 4,800. The Anti-Cline is 5,400 elevation. The LaSal mountains are 10,000 plus. I told him I highly doubted we would get any show at 4,100 feet but he cancelle anyway. Since it was Thanksgiving weekend it re-rented and I refunded him in full as I didn't lose anything. As it turns out a little bit of snow got down to about 4,700 and more of a drizzle than rain.

I turned 71 this year. Been living here since I semi retired at 54. Each year I've mostly felt healthier than the year before. However last year I had a noticeable drop off in some things I use to climb with ease and this year it has continued deteriorating. I don't recall riding my trials bikes even once. I haven't even kayaked the river and it's about 200 feet away from my office. Mostly I just got wrapped up in lodge stuff and the time wasn't as available as usual. For this year the season has mostly ended and I'm caught up on many of the things that have been dragging on so Jax and I have been hiking every day and Teresa has gone with a twice. Five or six miles each day and not around the high school track. Over, under, and around stuff. So I'm hoping by Spring I'll know if it's just old age or lack of time to combat it. I'm nervous.

From San Diego

Kobae is in San Diego now until late February sometime but I'm cleaning up stuff as the season is mostly over and found this picture of Kobae and Jax hiking together, in sync.

There is a large rock in the backyard in San Diego that came from Moab and Kobae hangs out on it some days.

It's hard to tell which vehicle is from Moab. I guess you could tell by the ground clearance.

Linny and CeCe sitting on a bench. I don't know who the other guy is.

Pictures from Moab 240 by Glen

TRX Falls Off A Cliff, If You Haven't Seen It Yet

San Diego

We take a walk around the neighborhood right as school is getting out. Bad timing.

Cattle Drive

Next day we load up Kobae in the F-250 without a back seat and it's off to San Diego. As we come down the other side of Hurrah Pass here come the annual cattle drive. Jax wants to go out the window and get involved but there's a lot of cows. After the cattle go through we continue. When I get to Green River I'm putting gas in the truck but as much is spilling down the side as is going in the truck so we drive back to the lodge and wait for Nation's to open Monday morning. They promptly fix the issue and we're in San Diego 13 hours later.

One More Hike With Kobae

It's time to take Kobae back to San Diego for the winter but we're getting one more hike in and it was a good one. We were all over the property.

Just a brief period of time with few guests so got to go soon.