Blustery Day

The morning started out easy-going enough. We had plans to walk from the RV park into the historic part of Boulder City. We planned lunch at Boulder Dam Brewing Company, a place with good food and a nice outdoor seating area. It's a tradition for us to have at least one meal there when we're visiting Boulder City. So we drank our morning coffee. Sadie sat in my lap helping me with my slow stitching. Smitty had lap envy.

Later, he joined us on the veranda while we sat outside in the morning sunshine.

It wasn't long before the wind came up. With us just skirting the cold weather east of us, the pressure dropped rapidly here, bringing strong winds in the 20 mph range with gusts into the 30 mph range. It had our camper rocking, and we were both very glad it was still seated in the bed of the truck for extra weight. It blew like that the whole live-long day. Everyone, including us, hunkered down and waited it out. By late morning, the sky was orange with blowing dust. We still thought we could brave the wind and have lunch in town. By noon, we'd changed our minds. I'm really glad we did because it would have been miserable both coming and going, and it's unlikely their outdoor seating area would have been in use.

Okay, so apparently this happens fairly frequently in Boulder City. We've never experienced it like this before, and so it comes as something of a surprise. With so much time just sitting inside, there was plenty of time for slow stitching. I finished up the 9th of Grandma's Thimbles.

Just three to go. Think I'll get them finished before we reach home on Saturday? 

It seemed like a good day for a skillet cookie, and so I baked one of those for our dessert last night and tonight.

Later in the day, Sadie amused herself by stalking birds through the window. She takes this activity very seriously.

As you can see, a day spent inside is pretty lackluster. We're hoping for a better day of weather ahead. The wind seems to be dying down. It rained quite a bit last night, and if the forecast is to be believed, we should have sunshine starting around 11:00 a.m. Maybe we'll walk into town today, but nothing is certain for sure as I'm writing this.

Okay, so the rest of our journey will be driving, driving, driving, and I'm planning to take a break from blogging until we get home. Mike and I were discussing these "vacations" of ours. Since we're retired, they don't really feel like "vacations." Instead, we're referring to them as "road trips." Having a few days here in Boulder City feels as if we're getting a little vacation from our road trip ahead of making the long drive home, driving long distances for several days running. As for blogging, it starts getting hard to fill a page when we're just sitting still, even if we're sitting still rolling down the road. So look for me on Saturday or Sunday. I'll be back then. 

But here's the rub: Our roofing project is set to start on Monday, October 18th. Where we live, we have wireless internet with an antenna on our roof pointed at our service provider across the valley. That will be disconnected for a short time while the new roof is being installed. After that, the internet service provider will have to reinstall the antenna and get it positioned in the right direction. In the meantime, I can probably use my cell phone hot spot, as I do when we're traveling, but our cell signal isn't great where we live. (It's the downside of living in a rural area.) So, I don't know whether I'll be able to blog once the roofing project begins, or how long our internet will be down. I'm thinking less than a week, but that's only a guess. Fingers crossed it's a short outage, and fingers crossed my cell phone hot spot can take over. We'll all find out together.

Thanks again to all who have followed and left comments. Even if you didn't comment while we were traveling, it was good having you along. We're all looking forward to being home and settling back into our regular routines. I know the kitties are Jonesing for some of that Oregon grass. For now, I'm signing off. I'll be back again in a few days.