Month: September 2022

This was an eventful weekend. We started out double rigging or hauling a double. Whatever it’s called, I dislike it and today wasn’t an exception. We started out fine until we were on the freeway and the four wheeler trailer detached from the fifth wheel trailer.

I failed to take pictures, because I was pushing the tongue of the trailer and Paul was pulling it while cars were speeding past us at 70 mph! We got it hooked on after Paul repositioned by pulling forward and then backed up on the freeway! I wasn’t thrilled.

We hooked the trailer up and were able to safely bring it back home and dropped it off.

With the trailer issue, we arrived at Soapstone pretty late. We are not familiar with the area and with the sun already set we were worried about traveling too far up the mountain. What if we couldn’t find a spot, could we turn around?

This was taken the following day so we could reference where we were and how to get to the same camping spot next time. 🙂

We made a right and took the next spot to the right. There was another trailer in this spot without a truck so we pulled in and parked on the other side and hoped who ever owned the trailer wasn’t coming up this weekend. I didn’t take pictures of that either 🙂 And VERY late the guy did come back! He turned out to be a really nice guy and was up here hunting for the month.

We leveled and jumped in bed, but first noticing we didn’t have power from the batteries. 🙂 They were dry and we didn’t have any distilled water to put in them.

The next morning we woke up to this! Not bad. And then I heard this…

Is this was the zombie apocalypses will sound like?

Turned out to be a great spot and when we come back we would like to return to it.

We had to drive down to Kamas to get distilled water and on the way back, we may have stopped off for donuts 🙂

Later that day we saw the sheep herder.

Paul made breakfast every day this trip.

Making breakfast a little sweeter 🙂

And that was it. Short and sweet.

This morning Eli showed us that he is growing up to become a fine young man.

It started our as a normal morning. I was getting ready in the bedroom and Paul came in and started brushing his teeth.

A minute later a knock on the door, Eli asked if he could come in. He was holding a plate of waffles. He calmly told Paul that he wasn’t arguing and he was just letting him know he didn’t like burnt waffles. Eli said he likes his waffles crispy on the outside and soft in the middle, and he was worried if he didn’t let Paul know about this, he would always get burnt waffles. He also said it was very hard to get the wet waffles out of the dish washer and into the trash, but he managed to do it. 🙂 Eli then held out the plate of waffles for Paul that HE made. He said he was sorry and he didn’t mean to make Paul feel bad.

Turned out Paul had a very short night due to work, and this morning he didn’t have any patience with Eli and his complaining over his breakfast. Eli complained that his waffles were burnt so Paul picked up the plate with the burnt waffles, put everything in the dish washer, and left the kitchen.

I am so please how Eli handled this situation. He was so calm and just explained how he was feeling and the reason why he said what he said to Paul.

Eli is a generous, caring, thoughtful young boy. I sure hope he continues growing up this way.

Went on my usual run this morning.

As I was running I thought it would be fun if I ran into Paul and Eli. But what a crazy thought, they never come out and meet me while I’m running. I turned the corner and there they were! Well, wouldn’t that be fun if won a million dollars? Ha!

When I left to go running, Paul and Eli went around the valley and picked up 7 electric lime scooters.

Eli and I jumped on one and the three of us went around the lake.

We called some friends and invited them to come ride with us.

It’s always fun to be with Lauren.

We stopped under a bridge to throw rocks into the lake. I was really hot out! We needed some shade.

That evening I called my brother and we went out again.

I even got my dad on a scooter!

Sorry, Paul. This is the only picture of you 🙂 I had to document that you were with us 🙂