Happy Memorial Day! This weekend we took advantage of the gorgeous Denver weather and headed out to Kenosha Pass, which is about 90 minutes from our house for our second outting with Poppy, our camper. We found a great camping spot right away and set up and didn't think too much about the temperature, it was early and bound to warm up. After being there for not more than 3 minutes Blue returned from a quick scouting of the area with what looked like a monkey paw in her mouth. Turned out to be a very large bone from some poor deer or something. Tim took it and chucked it as far as possible into the woods. Blue ran off to find it again and returned with a whole spine, complete with a complete set of rib bones...gross! It was getting colder so the girls and I headed to the warming glow off Poppy, wait a minute, why isn't the heater running? And what is that white stuff falling from the sky? I opened the door to find this...
In the meantime Tim is farting around outside trying to get the furnace to turn on. Poppy is not cooperating! Tim suspects the battery is dead. It's still pretty early in the day so we decide to drive into town and find an auto store to check our battery. Turns out the battery is dead-er than that deer carcass Blue rolled around in. New battery and back to the camper, furnace working great and the snow has stopped! We decide to take a little jant up the trail and see what we can see before our tasty hotdog dinner and somores. After dinner we decide that it is too cold for somores and plus its late so we hope in bed and proceed to freeze our buns off! Annie was apparently warm because she kept pushing her sleeping bag off. The next morning we wake up to...frozen water! I guess the water heater isn't working right yet and we are still trying to figure that one out as we speak. After breakfast we decide to try a little hike. Not thinking too much (or maybe I just didn't really want to hike) we left camp without our jackets and no hats or anything, I was wearing my sandals, so obviously my brain was still too cold from the night before to think that it might still be kinda cold outside. We ended up driving about 5 miles up a forest road and spoke to a ranger who said "It cost $5 to hike here, plus the lake at the top is snowed in." We said "See you later!" and headed across the valley for a drive and finally decided to go back and enjoy the warm weather in Denver...we did see some wildlife, the battery store had a few hummingbird feeders and I saw at least 7 hummingbirds hanging out there, and we also saw an antelope family while we were leaving the $5 hike. 
Hey! Forgot to add...our truck turned 90,000 miles on the way back. Of course I called my brother John to celebrate...it's a Rondot thing, long story! Too slow with the camera though!
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