Monday
I wish there were some way I could convey the view from here. Sitting at
the dinette, typing this letter, I get the most spectacular streamside, row
of cabins, robins beside me, mountains, trees, high country snow, clarity of
the high country blue sky, view you could imagine. There is no way to
capture this with a camera.
Okay. Off to work. Let's see if I can do this in three days.
The Creede Repertory Theatre. The Leadville job was advocates for victims
of domestic violence. The Glenwood Springs job was a domestic violence
safehouse. The Creede Repertory Theatre is a well-worn turn-of-the-century
repertory theatre in a tiny town in Colorado, but it has a worldwide
reputation. They put on a whole season of plays all summer long. They
travel the country in the off-season, recruiting players for the next
season. Some very famous names have spent their summers here. There is a
lot involved in putting this on. They bring all these actors in for the
summer, but the town is too small to house them, so they have to provide
cast housing as well. They took care of that by buying the old Rio Grande
Hotel, known locally as The Bordello, and refurbishing it. They got it
fixed up nicely but couldn't get rid of the last of the ghosts. There are
reputed to be some unsatisfied souls wandering the upstairs.
Got the financial statements set up and got half way through the assets.
Same as last year, we're the first and only guests of the campground of the
season so far. We have partial hookups. We get full-time electric and
sewer, but it's still too cold at night for water. It's no problem for us
inside the motorhome. Our holding tanks are heated and stay plenty warm.
Their outside lines would all freeze if they turned them on though. We're
parked just close enough to the one year-round faucet that is deep enough
and strong enough to not freeze. We can reach it with three sections of
drinking water hose. So once every day or two, in the middle of the day, we
stretch our hose across to it, fill up our fresh water tank, and disconnect.
We run all the inside water off our tank, with the pump. This is a good
thing. It will complete the de-winterization process for us. We have to
winterize the lines with that pink non-toxic antifreeze for the winter
months, and then flush it all out in the spring so we can use it again. The
pink color rinses out quickly, but that doesn't complete the process. I,
mister sensitive, detect an aftertaste to the water after that. Every time
we use a tank of water and refill, it dilutes it more and even less of the
aftertaste remains. This week here will complete the winter water flush.
