The Work Goes On

This has been a great week.  The weather has been good despite short hail storms on Tuesday and Wednesday.  It is so amazing, you put on coats and hats and in an hour you are throwing them off because it warms up.  The storms and wind moves in and out faster than anyplace I have ever seen.
We had the "Pay sisters" Doreen Lloyd and JoAnn Baird.  They are Marjorie Hinckley sisters and are just a constant laugh.  Their Grandmother, Mary Goble and Grandfather Richard Pay were members of the Hunt wagon company that stayed with the Martin handcart company. They shared many great family stories and even had a grave marker for their 6 week old Great Aunt that died on the trail.  It was an amazing story about how it came into their possession.

Bob, JoAnn Pay Baird, Doreen Pay Lloyd

Grave marker for Edith Goble. Burried just before Devils Gate in Wyoming

They did a great fireside on Wednesday night and then we spent the day with them as we visited many sites of the actual trail and campgrounds.  We also saw "Brighams arrow" that was placed there by the vangard company to show them where to turn.  We saw many unmarked grave sites which were just stones embeded in the ground.  We had lunch at "The Muddy" where every Mormon pioneer who came across the plains would have camped.

Debra on the actual Mormon and California trail.

Bob and Debra at the Muddy campground

It was very moving and inspirational to be in those sacred places where so many of our ancesters sacrificed so much for their beliefs.
Bob and I finished covering the vent work upstairs in the trek center, and Bob repaired the two toilets after I kind of broke one as I was cleaning.  He got quite a shower as the water line broke off of the valve.

Bob, the toilet fix it king

We rode some of the trails with paint in hand to paint the poles so as to help keep us on the trails.  I must say, I am quite liking buzzing around the Ranch in the four by fours!

Debra, painting poles on the trail

We spent yesterday knocking down the mud the swallows keep bringing in to build their nests.  They love the Depot and it seems to be a favorite spot for nest building.  I have come to believe they are "pesky" birds!
All in all it has been a great week.