Lynn's Lines: New Fork and Green River

New Fork Canyon Pond

New Fork Lake

New Fork River

Picnic

Betty, Nancy and I did our morning routine.We had to wait for the phone co. repairman to come again. Apparently the one who was here the other day got the Internet going o.k., but undid some of the filters which caused the phone to quit working. Didn't notice it for a while until I needed to make a call. So today he got the phone working again, and the Internet still works too. They have told me to call Dish Network for the TV right away and tell them it was probably lightning, but I haven't done it yet and not sure when it will get done.

While the phone man was working we made a lunch. When he was finished we loaded up into the SUV. Today was another fine weather day for taking a drive up to New Fork Lakes and Green River Lake. This morning I had to stop at the clinic and get another protime check. Its very high right now (blood too thin), so they lowered the dose of coumadin quite a bit. While I was in the clinic, Betty and Nancy went down to The Barn Door, a decorating place with lots of neat stuff.

Then we drove up to New Fork Lakes first. We passed some cowboys and their dogs taking Angus cattle up the driveway toward the forest. They were really moving along, whether because they were feeling good or the mosquitoes were vicious at the time we're not sure.

Lo and behold when we got to the outlet end of New Fork Lake, there were our mountain men again. I would have like to talk to them, but they were about to eat their brunch. I got a couple of pictures from there and a little further along the shore. We drove around the roads up there some. I'd never been over to the Boy Scout Camp before, and their parking lot was packed with vehicles from Utah. The New Fork River is also running full, as well as the spillway really creating a whirlpool. It is quite different the way it takes water from the lake to the river - sucked down some kind of drain. I had my grand sons up there once and as usual they had run ahead of me and I came up and found them nearly to the whirlpool. They could have been sucked right down there and surely would have drowned. They were mad at me when I hollered at them to get out of there right now! There should be warning signs there. Anyway on the way out, I yanked up a couple of sapling trees, think they are narrow leaf cottonwoods, for the yard. They would have been scraped off by the next road grader that came by anyway.

We ate our lunch at the narrows campground. Boy the canyon is pretty up there. Then we drove on to Green River Lakes. A beautiful drive and the Green is spread out wide in most places. Saw only one deer, no swans. (Although Joe told us he'd had a moose right in the yard at the ranch.) The campground is closed and it looked too difficult to get down to the water with no place to park and a bunch of other vehicles down by the lake. Couldn't see how we'd get turned around to get back out.

Stopped at The Place for ice cream cones. As we left guess who we saw! The mountain men were coming up the road with all their horses and their airedale dog. So this time we stopped and talked to them. We said they had camped a few days ago across the street from our house. They are going to a mountain man rendezvous camp near Green River Lakes and wondered if we knew a short cut that would get them off the highway. I only knew about the Moose Gypsum Creek Road but so did they so that will help. They were besieged by mosquitoes and we didn't leave the windows down long enough to find out where they were from.

Dinner was late tonight. This was probably the night we tinkered with my recipe for zucchini and hot Italian sausage casserole making sure it had no problem foods for Betty. It turned out pretty good. Served it with spaghetti. Nancy and I went out to get the plants Lois brought planted, as well as some bulbs I've had for a while. I want to bring more plants from the ranch this summer too, probably when Scott gets done working in the yard.