June 12,-16 2023 Fort Bridger to Rawlins, Wyoming to Fort Collins, Colorado

 High of 64. Sunny, then cloudy, windy and raining.

Storm clouds, spring green grass and cows just before the Wyoming border. We are now camped at the Fort Bridger RV park. Beautiful place with grass and trees. Only drove 3 hours today. 

Lilacs are in bloom. I love the smell. Pasture with golden banner and wild iris. 

Wild iris and shooting stars, if our dogs don't like you, we probably won't either, welcome to Wyoming. Wild iris and shooting starts and old cabin.

Blacksmith shop, Jim Bridger statue and the Orange and Black $1 camping cabins. 

Fort Bridger historic monument. I finished this basket today. It is made with dyed and natural pine needles, polyester thread glass beads and the center is a fossilized fish from WY that my friend Pam gave me. 7 1/2 x 6 1/2 x 1 1/2.

Another 3 hour drive today to Rawlins, WY. We are at Western Hills Campground. The beautiful house is for sale! $699,000, 7,990 sq feet. 

John took me out to dinner at the Aspen House restaurant. It was in a lovely old redone house and the food was excellent. It is still our anniversary season. John humor: Cow drifts behind the Cow fences. Keeps them from blowing onto  the highway.

We made it back to Colorado. It is very green in Colorado from all the rain.

The deadbolt on the garage door at the house was frozen so we could not get into the garage to unload from the bus. John tried picking the lock. Then called a locksmith who drilled out the deadbolt. Behind him is a pile of things from the car to take into the garage. And the AC/ furnace system is broken and it getting replaced on Monday. Other than that it is good to be here. The rain clouds parted a tiny bit for sunset. 

I planted my garden. I spent an ungodly amount for big basil and tomato plants. I am planting late and would love to harvest some before we leave, hopefully early fall. The 4 on the left are the new plants. The two scrawny ones on the right are the basil plants we had on the bus. They had some kind of affliction and were sickly. I planted them hopefully far enough away from the new ones so it does not spread. Maybe they will recover and grow now that they are in the ground. I have spent most of the last two days working on the estate and cleaning out my brother's condo. Still a long way to go, but making progress. 

I got back to Fort Collins late last evening, through lots of rain. The clouds looked kind of like sunset. Not this nice, but the camera made it look good.