SUMMER TIME FUN!

No, I didn't get the picture in the wrong spot! Would you believe this was taken over Memorial Day weekend '08?

Well...Believe it!

Mother Nature threw campers a curve ball, because this was indeed the scene on The Rim in Arizona. A place where folks flock to on the weekends, especially long holiday weekends. There was well over a foot of the frozen white stuff, coming down in near blizzard proportions. We could only imagine what we were going to find on the ranch.

In between The Rim and The Ranch there was over a hundred miles and a multitude of elevation changes, but we eventually got out of the snow, although there were traces to be had on the side of the road once we crossed into New Mexico.

Granted, Quemado (more on this tiny town in the future) looked like it had just come out of a deep freeze. A bit of a strange site for the end of May. The trees had just begun to bud out, (the leaves would be a while in coming) and we had heard they got a few snow flurries the week before but nothing stuck. We had run into snow flurries when we were there the first week of May also, but thought that perhaps it was just a freak storm. In hindsite, that was just the coming attraction.

The 26 miles of gravel road to the ranch wasn't too bad. The road crew does a nice job of keeping it passable. All in all, it turned out to be the usual windy Memorial Day weekend.

And of course, there was birthday cake for Karen!