Truck Repairs, Rocks, Fishing, and a Show at the Barn

We had a nice dinner with Matt and Patty and then drove back to our place at Star Valley. That evening we packed up our jewelry and prepared for the Arts and Craft Fair at the Barn! It’s the RV parks annual show and while it’s a small one it still gives us a chance to show our work to our friends.

After the show was over we drove to our friend Vickie’s house to celebrate a birthday only to discover coolant leaking onto the ground. Returning home, after eating birthday cake and ice cream of course, I parked the truck and decided to wait till the next day to hunt for the leak. Filling the radiator I saw the fluid start to run onto the ground.

Not being able to see where it was coming from, I then called our emergency towing service. They located a dealer able to work on the rig. Monday morning we provided entertainment for our neighbors as the tow truck loaded the truck onto a trailer, before delivering it to the repair shop in Afton.

Luckily the repair was just a broken hose on the EGR and a couple of hours later we were back on the road. We were so lucky the hose hadn’t ruptured up the four wheel drive road to Green River Lakes. Otherwise we would still be there!

Tuesday was a planned fishing day and we drove up the Greys River in search of cut throats. The Little Greys had dropped six inches and was devoid of large fish so we stopped and fished new water. I was about to start looking for rocks, in other words fishing was slow, when I decided to try a big hopper dry fly.

Two cast later and I was fast onto a fifteen inch cut throat! Luckily Renita was able to capture a picture of the fish, as I safely released it back into the stream. I wanted the image as its one of four cutthroat species, here in Wyoming, and catching and releasing all four earns one a Cut Slam Award from the Wyoming Game and Fish Department.

Having a day to relax, we actually played some pickle ball and finished up some jewelry orders. The next day we got a phone call from an antique dealer in Afton, who wanted us to come over and check out her rock collection, (we had bought a nice piece of fossil stromatolite, (fossil algae), from her the week before).

While she didn’t have any rocks we needed, (do we really need rocks?), her son stopped by and asked us to look at some of his rock collection. Driving to his house we searched through two large barrels of rocks and found some nice petrified wood. Of course we just had to have it and now we have a large collection of Blue Forest/ Big Sandy, Wyoming petrified wood.

More did happen this past week but this blog is already too long and so I will save the rest for another entry. Suffice it to say that there just isn’t enough time to do everything we want to do! Don’t laugh to hard, it’s a common complaint of retired people!

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