The Weekend Stuff

Every now and then guests ask about fossils I have around the property and I generally tell them if they want a couple I'm good with it. Somebody got a little carried away and took a whole box including some of my prize stuff. Now that I have a little time between the slowdown and with Michelle, Krysti, Tawnya, and Tammy here I've got an agenda to replace stuff missing so Saturday morning Jax and I headed over to where I've found much of it and picked up a couple muscles. Two bike riders went by while we were out there.

When Ryan was here working on both disc golf courses he painted a spoke on each basket indicating the direction for both blue and red tees to the next basket.

Jim Ryan came by in his Baja racer.

Jax and I got a short hike in Saturday evening.

Going Pretty Well

Dre is still mostly out of service suffering it out in the boat house. Tammy and Tawnya have taken over the cleaning and are doing an excellent job. Krysti watches Kobae and the lodge if I have to take off or I'm going hiking with Jax. Michelle is still painting. I'm not sure how many days it's been but probably close to a week. Michelle projects always start out a disaster but somehow in the end it comes out right.

Michelle, Jax, and I hiked up Hurrah Thursday morning early. When we got back Krysti and Canyon were ready to go hiking so Jax and I took them on the high trail out towards the Wind Caves and looking down at the river.

Friday morning Michelle, Jax and I hiked over the Last Hurrah to pump water in the tanks visiting the boat ramp on the way.

Different Stuff

Things are working out ok. Getting some bookings here and there and doing scheduling gymnastics to get them in but separate from each other. No spreading on my watch. Well one exception. Four or five days ago Michelle was sitting in the living room and randomly said "I think I'll paint the ceiling. Then a little paint got stuck on the walls and so she decided to paint those. A couple walls she wasn't happy with so she took the rest of the bucket in the king room and decided to paint that. No Corona virus but Michelle has got the paint disease and it's spreading all across the lodge. On Monday I ask her to take a break and maybe take a shower. When she came in the kitchen she said "The shower was a good idea or I never would have found this Snickers bar in my hair."

Guy walks up the driveway and says "You help me flip my side by side over?"

Krysti, her dog Canyon, Jax and I hiked Skinny People Wednesday morning.

Tawnya showed up yesterday and with Dre down and what we hope are the final day or so of his passing the kidney stone Tawnya and Tammy went over and cleaned the houses when they went vacant this morning. When they got back Krysti and Tawnya went to play disc and Tammy accompanied Jax and I up to Two Trains. We got two good hikes in today.

It's Quiet

Last week Ryan was here. Said there wasn't much to do at work so he came here and spent a few days fixing up the disc golf courses. Painted the tees on all the holes, a direction marker on the baskets and built cairns where they were needed as well as cleaning up some of the tee boxes. Three more have showed up saying they don't have jobs or anything to do and they'll do work for free around here and camp far apart to not take any chances and avoid the madness.

Jax and I headed out this morning to climb Stairway to Heaven and just about there Dre called on the walkie and said he and Tammy were out hiking and would join us but somewhere the directions got messed up so we headed over towards Skinny People, got close, then I let Jax go find them and he did. We took a hike Dre hadn't seen yet and spent a little time in Geode Heaven.

Dre made it to the hospital and they gave him four pills to take to dissolve the kidney stone. He said that's what they did last time and it didn't work. He's taking the large garage and sectioning it off to make part of it his work shop to create more art.

Jax and I got about four hours hiking in today. Was wonderful.

Heather sent me this a couple weeks ago and I just found it. Some friends were visiting Dead Horse Point and took this picture of the road coming down Hurrah on the right side of the picture. You can see some of the evaporation ponds which are blue and above them a skinny slide of the river. The lodge is sitting just above the left side of the river sliver. Got to blow the picture up real big.

Some Days in April

When we wake in the morning Jax immediately goes outside to check all the vehicles. I think he feels personally responsible for their safety.

I wouldn't think the critters that live here would be affected by the craziness going on in the human world but that all changed. On my trip to town Village Market was out of Kit&Kaboodle. Out. That's never happen in ten plus years I've been feeding critters and believe me it's the only food that everybody likes, everybody. There were two 17.6 pound bags of Kibbles n Bits sitting there which the pictures looked like Kit&Kaboodle so I bought them. I put two on the porch and stuck the little bit of Kit&Kaboodle out in Kobae's pen for the foxes. The fox bowl was empty in the morning. The raccoon bowls looked like this.

Jax, Michelle, and I got a hike in.

Flowers are blooming. In many places Indian Paint Brush is first.

Temps are in the 70s for the next week. So strange that spring has sprung and there's almost no guests to enjoy it. Since I put the property back on the booking sites I got three bookings the first day and nothing since. I think I'm going to do about 10% of last April's revenue and that won't even cover payments. I've got enough to last for awhile and I hate to get assistance especially from the government and there's so many people that need it more. If I don't apply for the loan though and do need it at some point it could very well be they're out of Federal funds.

One thing that is working out well is just like the movie people I tell everyone to bring their own food and whatever else they think they might need from wherever they live. Two disc golfers showed up that I never talked to who went to a store in town but as far as I can tell everyone else has brought groceries with them to include the movie people. Some day we're all going to be back in business and best to find out now what works and what doesn't. I think we're at 100% compliance so far with no impact on Moab. 

When we got back Michelle said "I think I'll paint the roof of the living room." Jax and I left to hike in The Fingers

When we got back the living room looked like this

Michelle said she had a good idea. What if she took some of this caution tape and painted it into the ceiling and walls. It would be a cool conversation piece. I said "I don't think that's a good idea." Before I left to go hiking with Jax, Dre, and Krysti I forgot to hide the tape.

I've made a lot of good friends in the disc golf community and they are such great people. One of them is Krysti. She didn't show up for a couple tournaments and when I'd ask about her other players would say she just sort of disappeared. Friday afternoon I got an email from her saying she has been living in her truck the last year or so. She was in Arizona and everywhere she went everyone was kicked out of the camp grounds. Could she stay here? I said yes and seven hours later she showed up. Dre, Krysti, Jax and I went hiking in The Fingers and to visit an arrowhead factory in that area.

When we got back the ceiling had expanded to not just being horizontal above but vertical down the sides and the laundry room door was painted as the test case for Caution tape.

I found one bag of Kit&Kaboodle in the dollar store in town so I put Kit&Kaboodle on top of the KibbleNBits trying to get the ringtail, skunk, raccoons, and fox to eat the whole bowl and not notice the KibbleNBits taking up most of the bowl. Each night they'd eat down to the KibbleNBits and then leave the rest of the bowl alone. I was beginning to fear I was stuck with 35 pounds of KibbleNBits. Later though when I was working in the office I looked out the window and saw Kobae cleaning up the fox bowl in his yard. Then a little while later the one sitting in the parking lot and finally the bowl sitting on the porch. He's only suppose to have a certain amount of protein a day or at a time or he'll get pyramiding on his shell. Hopefully the other critters will adopt cause I can't feed Kobae much.