Just a quick hello

Hay there everyone. Just a quick note to say we are still here in Colorado. Because of my being a cry baby about how hot it will be in Moab, Chuck decided that we can stay in Blue Mesa until after the 4th of July weekend. We will leave here on the 6th and head for Moab and the hot weather. It has been in the mid 80's here outside of Gunnison. Very nice.
Yesterday we took the ATV out and had a fun time exploring some of the mountains. We did not get any pictures, but if we go out today, I will be sure to get a few. Saw some cowboys branding and tagging their calf's. I made the comment I would like to go out and help them, but Chuck did not stop the vehicle, so I guess that was a no.
Pancho is in kill heaven. He got a mouse yesterday and his day was complete. I swear, I have never met a dog that was such a good mouser. He is putting Cats to shame. Hay, maybe that is why he likes kitties so much......he wants to be like them!!
Anyway, for now that is all. I will post pictures when we go out again. I am not sure if we are staying home today or going out in the world to explore.
Take care of each other.
Chuck, Dee and Pancho

Still in Deming

Hi Ya All!!
Long time no hear from us.....sorry. We have been busy. I will explain what we have been doing as I write and you can look at pictures. We are hanging around here until Poncho has his puppy shots before we take him into Mexico. I am taking the advice of some friends on RV net who suggested we make sure this is done before we go in as parvo and distemper are real dangers there for our little guy.
This first picture is of Poncho on one of his hunting excursions. Not one we are real happy about either. This is a feather. I had the camera on him as he was sniffing around, and all the sudden, up he comes with the feather and he saw me KNOWING I know he has it. See the guilt on his face. Needless to say, right after this picture he ran like a rabbit. He ate the feather on the run (seriously) and then he stopped running and was happy. Off to look for Rabbit poop. Yeah, puppies!!















This is my Uncle Gary. Notice him and his chi (that's chewie) look about the same. Dogs and Masters look alike I have been told. This was after a Turkey dinner Teresa and I had made. Everyone was full and it really shows with this picture. I am sure Gary is going to be real happy I posted this. hee hee, whats a good niece for if not to show off the family!!
I would of put a picture up of Chris, my Uncles Grandson, but he kept turning away from the camera, so that will have to wait. When your 14 a camera is NOT your friend.
















This is what Teresa and I have been doing for the last few days. We have been putting her massage space together. This is not a great picture, but it does show some of it. Next time I will post a picture of the space done. It really looks good. It is up and running and she is seeing clients now. She is so busy that she is actually having to carry around an appt. book with her everywhere. She has decided to take only four patients a day for now as otherwise she will get to tired. She is doing massages six days a week. Well, actually five and a half days as Friday she does not go into her shop, she goes to a business and does chair massages from one to five. She is pretty tired after that. I guess when your good EVERYONE wants you. She loves what she does and it shows with how in demand she is. Heck, I wonder if I will ever get another massage from her now!!! (ha ha) Oh what!!! There is always Travis!! Yeah, I am a lucky mom.

















In the meantime while the rest of the family is out working, going to school (chris) doing doggie yard duty keeping the rift-raft out of the yard (red dog...I will post a picture of her later) the pup's Clint and Poncho are making sure they keep up with their tug of war. That toy they have is Bandits (chewies son...another picture I need to post....damm this thing only lets us post five pictures at a time!!!) FAVORITE toy MONKEY!!! Bandit loves his monkey and these two brutes are tugging him!!! It was very nerve racking for Bandit to watch that. Clint is Teresa and Travis's little boy. He is four times bigger than Poncho and out weights him by four also. Poncho does not seem to know that. Like gary says, one foot tall with a ten foot attitude!! They have lots of fun together and are great play pals. They are the same age, so since they are on the same puppy shot program and time, it works that they at least have each other. Clint plays a lot with Red Dog as the other Chi's do not like playing with Clint. Being he is only nine weeks old, he does NOT understand why these little friends do not know how to play like a REAL puppy. If you look at Clints foot, it is resting on His purple pony. HIS favorite toy. No one gets Pony if the Big Boy is around!!

















This is a picture of Teresa and Travis. Are they not the cutest couple?? Travis is an agent with Coldwell Banker here in Deming, so if you want to buy a house or property, give the kid a call. He is actually a great realtor. I am very proud of him. Especially when I am in Wal-Mart and people who have been Travi's clients come up to me to say hello to Chuck and I and tell us how wonderful and honest Travis is. We had a lady do the same when we were with Teresa also. Gee, I love that.
I can tell you that we are really proud of our kids. Travis and Teresa, Tracy and Nate.....Man, we are lucky parents. Yeah, and thank's to all of our friends who helped as the kids were growning up. Bill Needham for draging Travis across a sticker infested field to teach travis a lesson (we laugh about that still) to Tim and Gretchen for being there for Tracy and helping her Grow into the wonderful woman she has become..
Ok, enough of the sappy crappy stuff. On with life.















The other things that have been going on is lots of little things. Chuck has helped Gary build his garage so he can start his house. We had power put on the property (Gary and Chuck split the cost....that helped a whole lot) We have water here now....thanks to Gary. We are using his well. Then we have also been helping to do what we could to help the kids get into there own house they are remolding. Travis just got the Bathroom tiled and grouted. Chuck and Travis have been doing lots of carpentry work. They took off a garage door and enclosed it so the kids can make another room out of what was a garage. Lots more work to be done on the inside of it, but enclosed is good. Us girls got the rugs shampooed, painting done, etc, etc. and constant cleaning up after the guys.
Of course their is always a set back, and so far that is with the propane lines not holding pressure. Hopefully this will be solved this week so the kids can move into their new place this next weekend. Chuck went to the hardware store to get some sort of plumbing stuff for that. (I am probley not saying that correct, but that is man stuff....I don't do that sort of thing, so I stayed in the truck with Poncho)After this is solved, then comes going to Las Cruzes to get the stove and wire so they can get Clint's yard done to. Details, Details.
Gary killed a four foot rattlesnake on Sunday,so I guess I need to pay attention better to where I am walking while Poncho and I are exploring the desert. Poncho has started to get bolder and bolder and has been running away when he has something he does not want us to take away from him, so to help solve this, I am now going to be having him on a leash so he understands Come and Stay. Children, even furkids all need training!!
So this is it for now. They next posting will probley be pictures so you all can be caught up on family and pets. Depends on how much of a hassle it gives chuck. This picture posting took him two days it was being such a pain in the butts!!
So talk to everyone later.

Deming New Mexico

Hello everyone!! It is I...Yeah, like ya did not know that right??
We are now in Deming and have been for a bit over a week. We got here a couple days earlier than we thought we would, but that is ok by me. Being this Last Monday (Oct. 2) was my birthday, I was lucky enought to get to spend it with the family. Teresa and Travis asked me what I wanted, and I told them my request. Oh, let me back up a bit. When Teresa and Travis got out of there vehicle to see us, Teresa had a puppy in her hands. Seems like they had gotten a puppy from Gary. This poor little guy had gotten run over by the other owner who as he told Gary "is not a dog guy". The guy told gary he had ran over its paw, but it could not walk. It crawled, so Gary Took it off the guys hands. Gary gave it to Treresa and Travis and even paid for them to take it to the vet and be checked out. Gary is such a nice guy. Anyway, long story short. They named him Clint. The pelvis is fractured, but not broken. In just the time we have been here Clint is recovering in leaps and bounds. He is such a cute guy. I will get pictures of him tonight when we go over to kick some butt in Mexican Train and post them on here for everyone.
Ok, on with the rest of the story. So on My Birthday (did I mention I am now 51?....Man I dont feel that OLD) Teresa came over with her table and gave me a wonderful massage outside under our awning. It was so wonderful and relaxing. That Girl has some magic fingers let me tell ya. Than, that evening we went over to Garys for dinner and Mexican Train. Travis fixed me pizza. my other request. NOT ANYWHERE can I get a better Pizza than that kid can make. It is wonderful. I had Lemon pie for desert.
Than the BIG surprise!!! My Uncle Gary gave me a puppy. He is a little brown Chihuahua. Needless to say at first Chuck was NOT happy. However, he took it like a grown up man and did not yell, scream, or throw a fit. I was proud of him. (Still am) Now Chuck is this little guys dad.
Chuck named him Pancho Villa. I was leaning more towards Cody, but being he is a Chihuahua decent of Chihuahua Mexico and probley from the wild Chihuahua herd of Parana Chihuahua's that eat full grown bulls from the hoofs up, I like Pancho Villa.

This is the boy. He is now six weeks old. We think a bit young to take from his parents. But from what Gary said, his enviroment was pretty damm poor. His two sisters were already gone.
















This is our boy waking up from his nap.















You can see that he loves his bed and blanket. These are his and all his worldly possitions end up in there. What you can not see is his balls (cat toys) and chew bone under that blanket.














Look at those liquid brown eyes. How can you not let them MAKE you fall in love?















This is the last picture of interduction. I will post more pictures later on of our family, including the humans. So until then, take care of each other as family and friends are the most important things in your life.
Chuck, DeeDee and Pancho Ramsey

After the glow

Well, it is after the glow of seeing our daugther and on the road again. We are heading back to Deming to stay on our little piece of property for a bit. We have discovered these fuel prices are killing us in Driving time. It cost about a $100.00 a day to travel. Fuel cost only. Normally we drive a day, stay a week. Sometimes two weeks. Leaving Tracys in Amity we have traveled long days for three days now, and are feeling the pinch. So we made it to Moab to boondock for a bit, lick our fuel wounds, and recoup from the long drive time. Usually we only travel four hour days, but since leaving Tracys, we have traveled three eight hour days. Way to much.
However, our visit with Tracy was great. We stayed in an RV park eight miles from Amity. It was a very nice park with lots of flowers and friendly people. I am pretty sure the name was Mulkeys. It is on hwy 18. We actually HAD to pay full price of $144.00 a week. But worth every penny to be with Tracy for a few days.
She and Nate (her boyfriend) has a really neat apt. in Amity. It is in an older building and there apt is over a Mexican Restaurant. The restaurant keeps their apt warm. The light fixtures in the apt. is 1950's and just awnsome. We really loved there place. They have two bearded dragons (lizards) and a kitty Tracy rescued. The kittys name is Tempest (meaning storm). I call him my grandson. I played with him daily when we were there and now tracy has to retrain him since I spoiled him and let him play rough.
Nate had a few days off from roofing due to the weather and is happy to be back at work. Tracy just started a new job at a restaurant three days before we left and really loves her job and the people she works with. She is doing the dishes and janitoral work. Her boss said he would put her out on the floor, but she said no Thank you, she does not want to deal with the people. She is happy where she is for the time being. We ran around town, did lots of Geo Cashes, did a watercolor and lots and lots of other stuff. Tracy and Nate took us to a shop and I put some of my jewelry in for sale. We also went to a Geo Caching event and met lots of wonderful people and made some new friends. Nikki and Scott being our favorites. Nikki and Scott go by Otisprincess. Otis being there last name and princess as Nikki is the princess of Caches. She has placed most of the caches in the Yamhill area I think. I think we got Nate hooked on Cacheing. He has eagle eyes to!!! He found lots of the caches we went to and can spy the little bitty caches really fast. Both "the kids" are happy and that is what counts the most in life.

We had a tough decision to make and decided not to go to Southern oregon and Northern California to see our long time friends. After figuring the fuel cost, cost of parks to stay and Travel time and distance, we decided that our bank account was going to suffer greatly. So we decided to put off the visits to our friends for next year......or when diesel comes down. Here in Utah we are now paying $2.89 per gallon. In New Mexico the diesel is $2.55, and in Mexico it is $1.89 a gallon. Yeah, we will be in mexico soon. Probley in November sometime
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As for Chuck and I, we are doing well. I am really tired today and Chucks back is bothering him a little. It is cold here (in the mid 50's) so I am in sweats with a cover blanket on me. We started seeing snow on the mountain tops yesterday and this makes us even more wanting to get into some warm weather. Anything below 70 is now cool to us, and anything below 60 is freezing. The nights have been in the 30's and I am just not wanting to get out of my warm blankets in the mornings.
Maybe I should of called this blog "Want a little winnnneee with that cheese" because of my crying about the cold and fuel cost. Hay, it is just good to be alive is it not!! Ok, I will go take a nap and then I will not be so sniffley. Until then, suffer with this blog and we will talk to you all later.
Chuck and Dee

Oh, before we go, We wanted you all to see this!! We stopped for a Geo Cache on the road called "These boots were made for walking". I wondered why that phrase until we stopped at it. Look at this tree!!!


Ok, here is a closer look!! Some of these shoes have been on this poor tree for years. Some of the shoes are dated, some are not. I do not know how this got started, but it was so unusual that we just had to let you all see it for yourselves.

Sumpter Oregon

States that we have Geocached in. The visited states is full.

Hello and good tidings to all!! We are in Oregon now. We spent a wonderful several days with some friends in Sumpter Oregon. Duke and Dianne Elliott own the property and invited us to come and spend some time up there with two other couples. There was Mabel and Bill and Sharon and Alby. We call Alby "Pie" cause pie are round. This is a very loving nickname by the way. We all love our Pie to death. Sharon is Sweet Pie. Yeah, you got our mentally dont ya!! We hated to leave but we did cause we did not want to get sick of each other!! We had a blast and so enjoyed each other's company. We laughed alot, joked with each other, pulled gag's on each other, did art stuff and Bill even helped me make (ok, he did the most of it) a new walking and poking stick for me. He even wood burned "Dee's Geo Stick" on it for me. Thats so Chuck can't steal it!!

This picture is our "camp". The locals started to stop by on there ATV's and ask Duke and Dianne if they had opened an RV park!! Har Har Har!! They (the locals) were very nice and we enjoyed meeting quite a few of them. On the left is our Fifth wheel, Mable and Bills Safari RV,
the big white RV is Duke and Diannes and the other brown one is Sweet Pie's and Pies.
















This is a concert given by Mabel and Pie. Pie is playing the guaitar and Mabel is playing an According. Course, you can not see that as bill is giving Dianne a sing along paper and sharon is looking on with her sing along paper wondering what to do with it. She sure was not going to sing. Pie sings great and sounds like Johnny Cash. Really. Sweetie Pie never even hummed. She says her Alby (pie) pays her NOT to sing.
















Now this is a better picture of our concert. That is me in the blue shirt. I sang. I don't care if I sound bad. I figure everyone can plug their ears or sing louder than me if my ugly voice finds there ears. Either way, it was a LOT of fun. Notice Berney sound asleep on the RV pad thing. It could not of been that bad cause the dog was not howling.

















This is Sweet Pie (Sharon) and I petting a deer I named Jasmine. She was very sweet and allowed me to groom her for over an hour. She loved it. She groomed me with her tongue (the deer, not Sharon, in my hair, arms clothes. I enjoyed every minute with her and I think she enjoyed us to.
















Here is Jamine grooming me. She was eating some carrots also. Chuck did not put the pictures of her on after her grooming. She was very happy to get the summer hair off of her and expose her winter hair. If you look closer you can see our hair is alike. Both of our summer hair is more brown, and beneith it is darker. We must be twins!!!
















This is Bills Deer Lilly. She used to be Dukes girlfriend, but left Duke for Bill. Even kissing Bill. He feed her a mixture of seed, nuts and other seeds and grains. You can see she eats well. She has to in order to put on fat for the winter. She really liked the men. Sorry Duke, maybe you can win back her affections now that Bill is gone. You know, a little dinner goes a long way with us woman when your dating us. Check with your wife, she will tell you the same. Besides, she never kissed you did she Duke?? THAT tells you who is important !!!
















This is typical Sumpter Humor. This town is full of wonderful people with great humor. This sign is at the local gas station and snack store.































So this is what we did when we left I-dee-hoe. We have to thank Duke and Dianne for there wonderful friendship, but not here as they do not do computer stuff, so they will never see this. Yeah, we do have friends who are not into computers, but that is ok, we love them just the same!! Mabel and Bill, it was wonderful spending time with you all. Give Mo-Mo a kitty hug for me and Burney puppy love. Mabel, thank you for the owl you gave me and Bill, I use my stick with great memories. Pie and Sweet Pie, we miss you already. Keep Caching Pie.
So thats it folks. We are on our way tomarrow making our way to see Tracy and Nate in a day or so. We will update later. Take care of each other cause your family and friends are the most important things in your life.

I-Dee-Hoe

Hay Ya All, I thought that we should up date before we leave here tomarrow. Here is just outside of Boise Idaho. We stopped here so we could visit with Chucks sister. We are not real impressed with the area. Boise is so busy and the traffic is so thick you feel like your a flea on a dog amoung an infestion!! Horrible. Nasty.
So we are staying about forty miles outside of that jungle city. It is a nice park with older trailers, but the people are wonderful. Usually when RVers pull up to a park such as this, they take a look and pull away. Lots of older trailers that are here for the long haul. We learned long ago that just cause there are older trailers and they do not move does not mean the people are not just as wonderful as the newer trailers. We have been proven correct once again. This place is called River Heaven.
Anyway, Here are a few pictures of the area. Unless the trees are planted there are none. How many trees can you count in each picture?? Bushes?? Shade??
Enjoy.

Chuck and I were geo caching.































Even the deer are dieing for a drink and some shade.


























































































As far as I am concerned, these were the prettest things out here.





























By the way Val, we should hit 500 today.

Arches National Park "Devils Garden"

Hello and good tidings to all. Lookie Lookie, we are posting more stuff about us. We just love to brag do we not?? We need spankings, we are so bad!! ha ha ha
We leave Moab tomarrow morning to continue on with our adventures. We actually have not been doing much of anything except laying around reading and relaxing for the last four days. We went to Devils Canyon in Arches National Park for a Geo Cache. We did not expect it to be the hike it turned out to be. We knew it was a five mile hike if we just walked in and out, but we could not do that!! It ended up being over a seven mile hike and when you see what we hiked, you will be as impressed with our old selves as we are. The reason for the four day rest is not the hike itself, we feel great (no soreness) but I got sunburned on my shoulders and back pretty good. I have needed to stay OUT of the sun, so hince, no hiking, no sun, just stay in shade. Today is the first day I feel not burned.
Ok, enought of my chatter, on with the pictures!!


The entrance to Devils Canyon. It looks like it is going to be such a lovely stroll does it not??


















This sign (I think you can click on the picture and get it to be bigger) tells you there is an arch in front of you. Cleaver them forest service peoples are.















Take a good look at this arch as it is falling to pieces. If you will notice from what the sign said, it is crumbling. This is probley the last picture EVER taken in the world of this arch. It probably fell down right AFTER we left the park. (Do you beleive that?? If so, we need to talk in person...I have a deal for you!!)















Now, I do not want to shock ya or nothing, but your going to see lots of pictures of holes in the rocks. These are called Arches. I love the rocks. There are so many colors and textures that go along with them. It is quite beautful. God does good work does he not!!
















This Arch was a really neat arch. We really had to hike to get to it as you can see from the background. That is me standing there, and the guy behind me is an Italian guy we have been following with his group of three others. He was the only one who spoke english. Did I mention the Canadian we picked up one the trail?? His name is James. We all became friends and he joined us on treck over Devils Canyon. We bonded through Water. (I shared my water with him. Poor guy had no idea he was going to meet us and be dragged all over Devils Canyon so he did not have a lot of water with him)
















This fin is part of the primative trail. Yeah, I went over that. Not by looking around either. I had to keep my hands on each side of my eyes (like those things they put on horses eyes to keep them from not shying when their pulling buggies) and James had to be there encourging me the whole way. ( ok, Chuck was in front, James behind me so I had no choice but to go) My knees were jelly. I do NOT do high places well. I did however make it alive.




















This is James, The Canadian we met on the trail. Notice he is smiling now. Just you wait James!! Your going to be crying later on!!

















This little jewel is Dark Angel.



















This picture looks like an elephant looking at you does it not. This was on the way back on primative trail. This trail was beautiful and such a cool trail. It would of been better if we had taken it when we first started out and when we were "fresh" instead of on the way back when we were dieing. Man, it was so hot out there.

I can not remember the name of this Arch, but it was so cool and pretty. I mean cool by shade. I was very happy about that. Lots of blessed shade.
















Some pictures of Fiery Furnace. These pictures are of a different day. These were a couple days before Devils Canyon. I can not write on all of them as for some reason they are set up different on the blog. You will just have to view and enjoy them. I do know for sure however, you can click on the picture and they will become bigger so you can see them. This was a canyon Chuck and I really liked. You had to go with a Ranger on a tour. (Yeah, they CHARGE you for this one...probley for the rangers services and then do not give HIM any of the money) Thats why the group of peoples you see. We were with a wonderful group of people. Lots of French people and Germans in Arches. We had lots of fun with them and I learned lots of different things about there country. The kids were great on this trip and very enjoyable. So since I can not write much further on, Enjoy these pictures and the next time we get on the blog should be probably a few days. We are headed to Boise Idaho to see chucks sis, and then to Sumpter Oregon to be with some friends. We will post soon. Take care of each other.