Klinger Musings: September 14 - 17, 2019 Winding down our summer at Echo Lake

Saturday - 14 th
I walked the dogs separately and did the chores while Steve kept ice on his back. Mostly we took it easy. We watched OSU football and napped. After that game, we watched OU until it got boring. By evening he was walking better and we did some stuff around the RV.

View as we reach the top of the hill from our site

Sunday - 15 th
Steve was feeling some better today and was able to go for a walk this morning- Yea! I did the chores and gave away a fishing tackle box that someone had left behind and never claimed. Then we went to town and did laundry. Also we cleaned the Bigfork access and hauled the trash. When we returned tot the RV I fixed tacos for lunch. There was a little rest also. We put away our blackstone griddle - which was tricky getting it to fit back in the box. Then we started to move the picnic table next to the tree to chain it up. Some nice folks from Houston Texas helped us - as they saw us struggling. They were nice and I visited with them about our workcamp job here. We also chained up the fire pit and trash container. We decided to haul the weather strip from our wrecked awning to the dump - no way to haul it home that we could figure out. After these preparations, we were tired, so we had supper and watched some football.

Area north of parking lot

Weather strip we hauled away

Monday - 16th
It was a gorgeous day here at Echo Lake - makes us not want to leave!. We did the routine things then headed to the chiropractor. After that , we did some more prep to leave. Steve was able to do our regular walk this morning and we did the chores. Our boss, Tony, came by after lunch. He said everything looked good. He had received the inventory I emailed him. I also gave him the volunteer notebook and our potted flower plant for his wife. He said it would be great if we could return next year. We said we would love to if everything is good. After a short rest , we took our dogs to the Notch Trail and creek and walked. Then back to put away the hose and reel, patio mat, chairs. For supper we went to town for pizza and a few snacks for the journey.

Steve & I in our Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks T shirts

Fall Colors at Echo Lake Cafe

Mary Montana FWP Shirt

Zoey - at the creek

Buster on the trail

Tuesday - 17th
After getting up and around we took the dogs on a short walk. It was raining and overcast. We started getting stuff ready to leave - jacks, slides, utilities. I moved the pickup forward and Steve started to drive forward, but I waved at him to stop because the satellite dish wasn't stowed. Then he turned off the RV and it wouldn't start- neither would the generator. So he fiddled with the connections and got thing to go. We stowed the satellite dish and then moved the RV to the parking lot and hooked up the pickup. Luckily the lights checked out ok. We went to Bigfork junction and filled the RV with gas. We finally got on the road about 12:15 PM. Then we started traveling east and south on 83 through the Swan Valley. it was a beautiful drive - mostly cloudy and cool. We pulled into Deer Lodge, MT about 5:00 PM. We decided to stop for gas before we parked the RV. Then we walked the dogs and set up everything. We walked to the 4B's cafe and ate breakfast for supper then had ice cream. We returned to the RV and relaxed. The first day of travel was complete.