After 2 days of thunderstorms and rain and two very cold nights (28F-32F) the clouds have lifted to reveal a beautiful crisp and frosty landscape this morning.

 

 

 

Fortunately the weatherman got it right and warned us ahead of time so we turned off the water for the night!

 

 

 

 

Today is supposed to be gorgeous, no wind and the temperatures in the mid sixties but only for a short time since there's another storm brewing.

 

 

 

 

It's probably going to bring more thunderstorms and gusty winds, like we had earlier this week when it looked like this:

 

 

 

 

 

There even was a tornado watch for our county for a couple of hours after reports of several funnel clouds around Island Park.

I don't know if I captured one here, it sort of looked like one but I think it's just a little 'dip' in that cloud. Looks cool though!

 

 

 

 

The first morning after this storm went through we woke up to a light dusting of snow on the mountains across from 'our' meadow:

 

 

 

And on 'Lion's Head', the mountain behind us.

 

All this 'weather' meant I had lots of time to work some more on our route down to Texas. I thought I had most of it figured out until the stories about the flooding around Boulder, Colorado, started to come in.

What-do-ya-know-it, I'd planned on going right through that area and drive the famous, and reportedly very beautiful, 'Peak to Peak Byway'!

Looking at the road closure maps I've found on the web, this is probably not going to happen!

 

 

 

 

 

James is working on preparing the RV and Truck for the trip too. The RV got 6 new 'shoes'! You don't want to know how much that costs :-(

But fortunately there's such a thing as the Internet and specifically E-bay. Isn't it amazing? I bought them for about half the price (brand new!) and than they shipped them for free!

Not so easy to get them off the truck since these buggers weigh a ton, best is to just throw them off and let them bounce!

 

 

                  I'll call this: " Dances with tires" !

 

Great job, honey!

 

James ..... the RV up on one side, took the wheels into town where the tires were changed and balanced and the next day he did the same for the other side.

 

 

And on another note, yesterday we got company! Former classmate of James, Meg Jette, and her husband Chuck are spending two nights with us here at the KOA to see Yellowstone. They're so lucky, the weather is going to be gorgeous today and tomorrow! 

 

 

And they're such troopers! They sleep in a tent and it was 28F last night!

I offered them the living room floor in the RV and told them I'd leave the door unlocked but they didn't show up!

 

James loves having company for more than one reason:

 

 

 

 

My version of a Black Forest Cake, with chocolate mousse, real cream and (pie) cherry filling.

OMG, it's to die for!

 

 

Oh, what the heck, .... let's have another sunset!