Reindeer Travel

Click photo to make big so you can read the writing on the trailer.

So much for the theory that reindeer fly. The photo above is proof how they really travel. I took this yesterday on our way back home to (Westcliffe). The roads and traffic were horrible. We thought people stayed home on Christmas day, how wrong we were. The normal 3 hour drive, took us 4 hours, which actually wasn't bad considering the conditions. We ran out of snow in the Springs, but were back in it, just outside the Springs, on route 115 heading to Penrose.

Got back around 3:30pm and it was 41º inside! Yikes, someone forgot to turn the power back on after, running the generator to get batteries fully charged before we left. That could have been disastrous. Luckily we must have had some warm days to keep things warmed up and the pipes from freezing! We had taken most of the food with us out of the fridge. The root cellar that SRC built this summer has dip down to 35º a couple of times, but so far so good. We have the biggest refrigerator in the county, let hope it doesn't turn into the biggest freezer.

I was exhausted yesterday when we got back, and when it finally warmed up in here, which took several hours, I was out like a light on the couch. Finally got up and went to bed at 11:30. Woke with my usual back ache and stiffness. Time to get it checked out. My new rheumatologist, says it's not my RA??? Enough whining for now.