Some changes

It was a cool/cold the 4 days spent finishing the shop project last weekend, with the propane heater going most of the time although up top it was bright and sunny, I kept hearing about the terrible traffic accidents and freezing drivel in the Springs and points east.

Well, I ran in to those conditions coming down through Woodland Park on Sunday.

Bright, 55 degrees in WP and when I hit the cloud bank you can see in the pictures the temp dropped to 25 degrees. It stayed like this all the way back to Parker.

It says on the signs Woodland Park - "The City above the Clouds" I believe it now and on Sunday it certainly was.

The shop project is finally done, and the number of splinters in my fingers from the OSB is still being totaled up. The place looks real nice and the lighting has improved greatly. There is still a lot of re-arranging and shelf building to be done, but the heavy lifting is over.

Also as I mentioned back in March 2008 ( http://patcaulfield.blogspot.com/2008/02/we-take-next-steps.html ) that there was a second shoe to drop on the truck purchase, and we dropped it last weekend by putting a deposit down on a Okanagan 117DBL truck camper ( http://www.okanaganrv.com/Camper%20Floorplan%20Page/camper.htm#OK_117DBL ). Marlys and I will be going out to Washington state to pick it up next week.

This means next year we hope to attend the Gypsy Camp-in, and other gatherings that may be scheduled. Marlys is even thinking that we should get a convoy together and attend Burning Man. Hhere are some pics taken this year by one of the people I work with
http://picasaweb.google.com/Sean.Miller.Photos/BestOfBurningMan?feat=directlink .

Since the "real" camera is back this weekend, I will grab some good pics of the shop.