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It was hotter than hell when we got up
at 6AM. The tractors firing up in the field next to us
didn't help. I made sausage for breakfast, and we said
hello to a neighbor who had pulled in sometime over
night - a guy who, it appeared, lived in his car with
his dog. Takes all kinds, I suppose. He was a nice
guy, though, so can't really complain. Anybody who can
actually LIVE in a 1980s era Toyota hatchback deserves
something. After breakfast, we walked around the
farm a little bit, since the busses full of
conventioneers from Salt Lake wouldn't be getting here
for a while. They had some very nice flower plantings
and stuff around the place, which I tried to capture
before they got trampled by the arriving guests. The hosts had promised everything from
blacksmith shops to a staged Wild West gunfight, Native
American dancers, a jousting tournament, and a petting
zoo. It got hotter and hotter as the day went on, but we
were lucky in that we could just hie on back to the RV
and put the AC on to cool off. Drank a lot of water,
though. There had been some concern that the brush fires
would send a lot of smoke around, but the wind was in
our favor and it never got too bad. We watched the
jousting which was rather bizarre, as they staged a wild
west shootout at the same time, and of course the Prez
of the company was the good guy riding in with his
lance and vanquishing all the bad guys (dressed up as
FDA inspectors, I suppose...) The entertainment was
decent, if you like country music. By the end of
the day, I was pretty ready to retreat to the air
conditioned RV permanentaly. |
