Well Memorial Day came and went pretty peacefully. there was a lot of people in Haggard's RV Park and the swimming pool got an amazing amount of use considering how the weather was only warm and kind of cloudy. Everyone was well behaved, there was no loud music, or drunken behavior that often shows up when some people go camping during the holidays. I don't think there's too much of that kind of behavior at nice RV parks because the owners won't tolerate it. But my experience has been that at state parks and other government run parks there's more of a tendency for campers to act like fools on holidays and ruin the experience for folks that don't want to see how drunk and stupid they can get.

I'm not exactly sure why this is but one popular opinion is that holidays brings out people that are more interested in partying than in camping, after all it's a holiday and holidays call for parties.

 but I do know this for sure. I stay far away from public camping areas during the three big summer holidays and either boondock far away from people or go to a private RV Park like I'm at now.

I went to Denver Sunday and picked up my wife's cat. The cat is going to be spending a couple of weeks with me while my wife is out of town. I like cats but this cat has never been one of my favorites. The cat is noisy,  not all that friendly, and seems like the kind of cat that one day will kill you while you sleep.

Before we sold the house this cat was an outdoor cat.  she would stay outside all night and come   inside in the morning to eat and sleep. In the forest and around our house I have seen, Mountain Lions, Bears, Bobcats, Raccoons, packs of Coyotes, foxes, Hawks, Eagles, and of course deer and elk.  And this cat shared the night with all of those critters and must've held her own because she's still alive. I believe that would indicate that she's a pretty tough cat.

But now the cat lives in a condo and never gets to go outside so she's pretty bored. Here in the Arctic Fox  she sleeps a lot, and stares out the window, probably looking for something or somebody to kill.

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 Things started getting busy at Haggard's RV Park. They got the swimming pool filled up and running  this morning, I helped move an ice machine from the back of the office building to the front, and RVs have been trickling in all day.

It's been chilly and cloudy all day. I don't think it's hit 60° all day, and yet some of the first kids to show up went straight to the pool as cold as it was.

I guess tomorrow will begin the first day of the summer tourist season. I hope it's a good one because there's a lot of folks in Colorado whose livelihoods depend on visitors from all over the country showing up in great numbers, and with money to spend.

Since I used to be in the tourist business in Colorado I know how difficult it can be at times especially in the mountains where I was. The seasons not very long, it would start on the Memorial Day weekend and end on the second weekend of August when everyone had to get the kids back in school. there was a little money to be made before Memorial Day, and some money could be made after the kids went back to school, especially during the leaf season, But for the most part you made the bulk of your income in June, July, and the first half of August.

They'll be a whole lot of people up in the mountains this weekend  camping, and fishing, and  just having a good time in general so I hope it warms up because it was snowing in the mountains today and that's not a good way to start the first holiday of the summer.

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