It won't be long now.............

Hopefully, I'll get my act together and get started on this painting. As you can see, a brush and a tube of paint are sitting there, so I guess that's a start. I wish they would start on their own............

Here's a picture of my fella', Merle. We're good pals 99.9% of the time. The other .1% is hardly noticeable, just those married moments that everyone has upon occasion. We've been married for about 18 years (I can never remember exactly), and have gotten through the hard stuff. We managed to stick together although there were times when it felt like we were finished. This picture was taken in the fall of 2006 when during our first visit to Dead Horse Point in Utah. We loved it so much that we had another camping trip there this last May. That's when the picture of me in the header of this blog was taken. It's one of our favorite places.

As mentioned in a previous post, we like to 4 wheel drive. Actually, I used to like it more. I think I'm maybe getting a little burned out on that activity for now. I prefer something that involves more exercise. So, we are going to be taking a little break from the Moab, Utah 4WD scene for a bit. I say that now, but who knows what may prompt us to pack up and go back next year sometime? Here is a picture of Merle and his beautiful red Wrangler in Moab .

We've had trips to Moab for about the past 10 years or so, one or two per year. There are always interesting people to meet and the scenery is really very spectacular. We always thought that we would like to live there until one winter, we were passing through, and it was like a ghost town. The temperature was very cold, just like at home and it was snowing. Only a couple of restaurants were open. It made us realize that the area is really only "alive" for maybe 6-7 months of the year. The rest of the time, it kind of shuts down. The RV campgrounds we now stay at are always filled to the max and very hectic with children, vehicles and people coming and going. RV parks have become a new experience for us since the purchase of our little Tab RV. However, the ones in Moab have been the busiest of any place where we have stayed. A couple of months ago we went to Great Sand Dunes National Monument in southern Colorado. We stayed in the little RV park there. Here is a typical picture of us next to the big rigs.

Everyone always gets a big kick out of our little trailer. We always get folks stopping by to get a "tour". It's such a different RV and it suits our needs to a "T". (What does that mean, to a "T"? I'll have to research that on the internet......:-) Meanwhile, back at the dunes, the mosquitoes were having a feast on us despite frequent applications of bug spray. We visited there with my sister, her husband and Laird, their cute little boy. Despite the blood thirsty little suckers, we had a reasonably good time, particularly by the dunes playing in Medano Creek that runs along the base of the dunes. Here is a picture of Laird standing in Medano Creek eating a lollipop or possibly a Tootsie Pop.