On Mondays - we try to do a bang up job after the week-end. We cleaned the latrine, picked up trash and did our regular chores. We also did laundry and dumped our black and gray tanks (RV). Then we walk and sit under the awning and watch the boaters, swimmers, fishermen, and floaters. This can be quite entertaining!
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Tuesday we also did chores and Steve did some weed eating. Then we packed our backpack with snack, water, bug spray and bear spray and drove up to Jewel Basin. This is a place that you get to by driving up the forest road to near the top of the mountain. Our elevation here is around 3,000 feet, but where we went to on the mountain was 5,500 feet. It was also cool up there. The snow had not melted. We did not get all the way to the ranger station at Jewel Basin due to the snow pack on the road. We will try again in a couple of weeks. There were lots of cars up there and no place for us to walk. We we drove back down a bit and got our dogs out. There were chipmunks there that drove Zoey insane! She loves hunting! We drove further back down the mountain and walked the dogs some more, but we got tired and decided to start back to the RV.
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| Zoey Hunting |
Wednesday we did the usual but also dumped our sewer again because we thought it smelled. Steve also checked the air vent on top of the RV - it was OK. We defrosted the freezer. Steve started working on re-stringing the blinds.
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Wild Turkey we saw on our walk
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Thursday we went did the chores then dropped off the trash on the way to Kalispell. In Kalispell we stopped at Gardner RV to get stuff to work on the blinds, then went to K-Mart (didn't buy anything), the next stop was lunch at McDonald's. We just wanted something quick. Then we got some rope at Lowe's to make a little barrier around our site so people won't walk through it. Next place was Walmart! That is always fun. It was overcast when we left Bigfork , but the sun was out at Kalispell.. I think we are close enough to the Swan Mountain Range that it makes its own weather.
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Hanging Flower Baskets in Kalispell
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Friday was again overcast in the morning and then sunny! After chores and weed eating we went to Bigfork. Hazel sent us some mail, and I needed to check the Fishing Access there. We also picked up chips and salsa for our supper of soft tacos.
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Steve weed eating
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Saturday - it rained all day! Gloomy! Steve worked on blinds. We walked very little, I napped and read my book. I also helped Steve with the blinds (against my better judgement). He is finally happy with the one above the couch, Now he wanted to re-do the blind over the table. What fun! This is not something we enjoy, but it needed done.
Sunday the place was very busy! It was sunny and we had lots of boaters, swimmers, fishermen, paddlers and so on. The game warden came by and did some education about lifejackets with the folks here. He wanted some positive interaction. He handed out boating regs and talked to some folks. I don't think he gave out any citations. It was nice that he was here because it makes people behave!
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| Rope around our site |
We have such a beautiful place to stay for the summer. We really can't believe how lucky we are to be in this special site.
I got my fitbit report today and we walked over 70,000 steps last week! Woo Hoo! We are working on trying to get our activity level up.
Tuesday we also did chores and Steve did some weed eating. Then we packed our backpack with snack, water, bug spray and bear spray and drove up to Jewel Basin. This is a place that you get to by driving up the forest road to near the top of the mountain. Our elevation here is around 3,000 feet, but where we went to on the mountain was 5,500 feet. It was also cool up there. The snow had not melted. We did not get all the way to the ranger station at Jewel Basin due to the snow pack on the road. We will try again in a couple of weeks. There were lots of cars up there and no place for us to walk. We we drove back down a bit and got our dogs out. There were chipmunks there that drove Zoey insane! She loves hunting! We drove further back down the mountain and walked the dogs some more, but we got tired and decided to start back to the RV.
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