Visiting a boomtown

We had a leisurely drive over to Pinedale today. The climb over the pass was uneventful. We were delighted to see that Farson is open once again. A lawyer has bought the "town" and is making major changes including opening the "ice cream" store again. Stopping at Farson for their wonderful ice cream was always a tradition to our family on our yearly treks back to Oregon. Arrived in Pinedale and dumped the pickup to explore. Man, this place is booming. Talk about impact; this town is having it. We ate lunch then toured around. They have the coolest "sculpture" out in front of the school. The schools here are in one complex. And quite a complex it is! Then we went up to Jo's. She is on top of the hill behind town. Great place. We got TB setup by her garage. Ken went out between the garage and TB and there was a fawn laying there. He got up and wandered away into the garage and waited us out. We went to the Park for the Fireants Concert. This was sponsored by the Pinedale Fine Arts Council. A little music; a little dancing; a little ice cream and a nice reclinging lawn chair. My friend Dana was dancing to the music with some of her friends. Now that is the life! It was a great summer (going into fall) evening. It was dark as we headed up the hill. What a sight. Looking out over the valley we saw the lights of all the drilling rigs that are set up - 10 of them. It looks like a city around each. As we got out the pickup we realized that the noise we had heard this afternoon was the sound of all the rigs working. The beautiful full moon made for a great view over the valley.

On the Road Again

What a week we have had. Whitney brought the boys with her to Lander and Grandad watched them while we were in meetings. Then Thursday afternoon we took them to the Children's Museum in Lander. KaCe particularly had a great time. We leave this morning to start the second half of the Wyoming tour. We are going to Pinedale, stopping in Atlantic City on the way. This evening we will go to a Fireants free concert to kickoff the Pinedale Fine Arts Council's season. We will stay there until after meeting with town folk Monday. We have also been able to follow the Olympics. Since we have both east and west feed with Directv we get to watch two hours earlier; thus being able to go to bed earlier. Michael Phelps is a great role model for those with ADHD.
It has been cool and rainy here in Lander the last three days. Ahhhhh August in Wyoming!

Lander is a great little town

We came to Lander on Thursday. We are staying at the Pioneer RV Park. Phyllis (the owner) has done a great job in just a very few years. The spots are level gravel, with a nice picnic table and a beautiful bucket o'flowers in each area. There are no trees to mess with your roof or with sap to drip on your roof. (I just found out I now Care about these things.) There are two Workampers here helping her out. I made calls on Friday and spent the weekend working on the computer and helping Ken install a "surround sound" system in TB. We are sick and tired of having the TV up so loud it shakes the earth underneath us. Of course now Ken has the subwoofer up to hear the bass. OMG! What has he turned into. Oh well, we went to Riverton Friday to look for some doodads for Ken. Lander didn't have them. On the way back we stopped at the local Farmer's Market and got some fresh veggies. Tomorrow Whitney, KaCe and Ethan come. Whit and I have meetings and Grandad will watch the boys. On Thursday afternoon I want to take them to the Children's Museum here. (Prolbably only KaCe.) We will be here through Friday and there won't be any site seeing so probably won't have anything to say. :) We DID watch the opening to the Olympics. It was so awesome that we watched parts of it twice. Once on the East Coast feed and once on the West Coast feed. Just watched the US swim team win and silence the French boys that were pretty mouthy before the swim.