We've had at least three weeks of clear, dry, sunny weather. It has been quite nice, though hotter than I would prefer. But, by this afternoon, the rain is scheduled to begin; by tomorrow, we are supposed to have snow on the ground; by Sunday, lows should be in the mid-20s. Summer's end?
The signs are up. It is a terrible time to sell a house. Actually, it is a terrible time to buy a house. In short, it is a bad time to be buying or selling real estate. So, naturally, we listed The Homestead. We don't necessarily need to sell it right now. But, with EDO at Utah State and VSO working in Price, the house is sitting empty. It doesn't really make sense to heat it and furnish it if we are not living in it. So, we'll see? It has a certain rustic, not to say ramshackle, charm that may appeal to someone.
We made a bunch of pictures today. I used two of them in the first post. But, as I looked through the rest I found a pair of beauties. I really like the downed log with the big toothed maple (above). But, the show stopper is the one of VSO (below). She is gorgeous: A supermodel in the canyon.
Today we went all the way up Grad Canyon to the bottom of the big wall. There is some difficult fourth-class scrambling, but VSO has the moves. On the way down, she took the camera to make a picture of me slack lining on a peeled pondo.
I have never liked the plastic skirting added to many modern vehicles. About the only thing it is good for is to be torn off the first time you cross a wash. GC2 came with two levels of plastic. The top one was (is) integrated into the bumper and housed a pair of fog lights. The fog lights have never worked since we bought the truck (and I've never encountered fog in southern Utah), but there didn't seem to be any reason to mess with the plastic. Until now. With a few of the (plastic) snaps broken, the skirting has been blowing in the wind. I repaired it by cutting it off with a pair of tin snips.
