I’m writing tonight as our last night here at the cabin. I’ve posted several blog entries today, so if you are interested, please read backward a bit to see them all. I guess I felt the need to catch up a bit more before we left.

This morning we took our coffee and walked down to Serenity Point (as we’ve named it.)




Note to self: Next time I want/need to enjoy some serenity, leave the dogs behind in the cabin.

We are as ready and packed as we can get tonight. We just made the last walk with the dogs down to the bottom and back. They all know that we are leaving tomorrow as they’ve watched the progress of packing up all day long. I would like to think that they are as ready as we are.

The hummingbirds are not happy with us as we just now took down the feeders. They are in a frenzy of sugar withdrawal. I feel bad for them.

I emptied the bird feeders and along with it, all the junk food that we did not eat. So, the beasties will be feeding on Cheez Doodles (better known as Cheeze Do-dos) and stale potato chips and Chex cereal.

I have to say that given the extreme fire danger here, I took some extra photos of the cabin in case I might not see it standing again. Don’t ever take anything for granted. Not in this wild country.

If not this fire that continues to chew away at all the beetle kill, another one might take it. You just don’t know.

Our time here was good. But we are ready to resume our normal lives again and pick the threads of our lives back up again on the other side of the country.

We’ll see you on the flip side! Thanks so much for joining us on our journey west. I hope you enjoyed your vacation!

Posted using BlogPress from my iPad at the cabin 8,650 feet above sea level

Safe travels home.  Hope to see you next time you come out west.  In the meantime…will keep up to date on here

Don’t like that you can see the smoke that well.

By the way.  I live on the north side of city.  We are up high - not down in the poudre valley - we can see the mountains easily from here.

I scrolled back and as it turns out, I’ve missed several of your entries over several days. The one featuring the sky pilots, glacier lilies and all that fab scenery, for example. Glad you prompted me to keep scrolling.

Those smoke clouds, as well as the tree death that fuels them, are SCARY.

I’ve been thinking about your sensor blip. It could be damage to the sensor, but it looks more like a dust speck. I wonder if a tiny bit of something from the camera’s manufacturing process isn’t loose inside the camera body? Alternatively, I’ve heard the sensor can be damaged by pointing the camera directly at the sun…don’t know if you’ve taken any sun photos lately.

Have a safe trip home. I enojoyed my office chair vaction thru your eyes!
I don’t like the look of that smoke either. Yesterday I heard they had the fire only 5% contained!

A great time at the cabin was had by all, even those of us who weren’t actually there.  Have a safe trip home!