Boo !!!

Clicking the pics on Halloween is scary.... Be brave.

Mountain sunrise. I usually don't like getting out of bed early enough to see the sunrise, I figure the suns been coming up every morning since long before I was born so it doesn't need my help. But in the mountains I can get up later because it takes a while for the sun to clear the mountains which gives me a little extra sleep.

As I mentioned yesterday I removed the little Bronco camper from the bed of the truck. I don't know if a truck can smile, but I felt like it was smiling when I lifted that 1600 pound camper off its back.

I took the foam boards that the camper sits on out of the truck and stored them inside the camper. I also unplugged the rearview camera monitor from the truck and stored that inside the camper also.

I've taken everything out of the little Bronco that will be damaged by freezing weather, so now I'm hoping it's ready to safely hibernate all winter and patiently wait for my return in the spring.

I'm really glad I bought the little Bronco. I think my previous plans for camping in a tent while running around in the mountains would've limited the places and times I would go based mainly on the weather. the freezing cold nights I dealt with in the Alamosa area probably would've scared me off were I sleeping in a tent, and I never would've got to experience the good times I had taking pictures of the wily but good-natured Sandhill Cranes.

This morning, feeling flush from the fairly substantial accomplishment of removing the little Bronco camper, I put my storage box and the Anderson fifth wheel hitch back in the truck, so now I look like a real full-timer again.

Accomplishing this has removed any excuse for me not getting my oil changed and the tires rotated. I might even call my insurance company, I've got the lizard, and have them fix my cracked windshield; it seems like I'm averaging a new windshield about every three years. Boondocker's are no strangers to dirt roads, and driving on dirt roads is an excellent way of getting cracked windshields.

Today is Halloween, but not your typical Halloween, thanks to the Bat flu. My daughter and son-in-law have a small Halloween celebration planned that doesn't include taking the kids up and down the street knocking on doors and begging for candy. They are having one of my grandson's friends come over, they're in school together every day, so this shouldn't be a problem. And they're fixing up a haunted house in the garage for the kids to play in. Their also hiding candy in the backyard, sorta like Easter eggs, for the kids to find. Definitely not a typical Halloween, but 2020 is not a typical year.

                                    theboondork

Downtown Main Street, Alamosa. The Alamosa downtown area has had more than its share of redevelopment, some of which was caused by fires. So to me it looks more like the buildings are from the 1940s and 50s than the 1870s when the town was established.

Old po-boy mine. There's old mines like this all over the Colorado mountains and their most definitely not safe to be around. The hundred year old structures can fall on you. The tunnels or  shafts can cave in. Or a stope that you have no way of knowing is there can collapse under your feet if it was mined too close to the surface.

My grandson playing in the yard.