Coming home was never like this!
In the past, the only changes we dealt with included a wee bit of altitude, a wee increase in the ambient temperature, an increase in our living space, and an increase in the number of daily chores.
This time... oh my! The change in altitude from about 6600 feet to about 1500 feet - a drop of 5060 feet... almost a mile. That's significant and our bodies knew it! We spent most of the trip home looking at one another and saying "huh?" as our ears adjusted and we couldn't hear each other.
The temperature - in spite of everything everyone said to us in warning about Arkansas - hasn't been as severe a problem. It was - at it's highest - about 104° in Larkspur, CO. It's only 90° here. "Ah," everyone (the same group that warned us before) says "but the humidity..." Yeah, it's a lot more humid here, but it feels nice. Never thought I'd say it, but it IS good for my skin. The heat index here is about 100°. Still less than our high temps in Colorado.
Because we don't yet have a house built (probably won't have a house built for us for several more years), we actually had to deal with a reduction in living space coming from a 33'x20' Renaissance Festival booth to our campers and RVs and shop. Never thought I'd long for the spacious accommodations of a show booth, but there you go...
And the chores. Ha! We have to add fence building and barn building and brush clearing to our normal run of goat milking, sheep feeding, llama feeding and horse feeding, bottle baby bottling, and general critter watering. On the other hand, the goats (aside from milking) and the chickens seem to be taking care of themselves by nibbling or pecking anything and everything (including the catalog I picked up from Grizzly Industrial... drooooooool.... not to worry, I ordered another :-)).
Other changes include flora and fauna. In Colorado all we saw was pine, scrub oak and wild rose. Here there's... um... well, everything this side of coconuts and bananas. There we had some rabbits, squirrels, crows and deer... and the occasional brown bear. Here, we've got... um... well, again, everything this side of lions, tigers and 'gators (oh, my).
When we lived in Colorado, we were 'weekenders.' That is, we went home during the week. Now, we go home once... at the end of the show. That's the biggest difference. In 9 weeks everything changed! The lambs are sheep, the kids are goats, the trees are in full leaf, we completely missed the strawberries and blackberries, the garden grew and grew and then went to seed... we didn't get much of a harvest (the first thing I did after hopping out of the truck on our return was to check all the animals real quick and then grab a HUGE vine ripened tomato... yum!)
Lastly, there's the drive itself. Used to be, we could drive home Sunday night (we'd arrive looking not much better than a George A. Romero zombie, but it could be done), sleep in late on Monday and get back to it. Now, it's about 1,000 miles. We did drive straight through out there and back... switching drivers or napping alongside the road for an hour or so to keep ourselves safe. But 24 hours on the road... George A. Romero's zombies look liked supermodels when compared to us after those trips. On the other hand, long drives like that are our best brainstorming and planning times and you'll get to see the results of our brainstorming here and in our eBay store soon... and we got to listen to most of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows :-)
Long (way, too long) and short? It's great to be home... can't wait to get back on the road to the next show.
I'm a Gemini, through and through!
In the past, the only changes we dealt with included a wee bit of altitude, a wee increase in the ambient temperature, an increase in our living space, and an increase in the number of daily chores.
This time... oh my! The change in altitude from about 6600 feet to about 1500 feet - a drop of 5060 feet... almost a mile. That's significant and our bodies knew it! We spent most of the trip home looking at one another and saying "huh?" as our ears adjusted and we couldn't hear each other.
The temperature - in spite of everything everyone said to us in warning about Arkansas - hasn't been as severe a problem. It was - at it's highest - about 104° in Larkspur, CO. It's only 90° here. "Ah," everyone (the same group that warned us before) says "but the humidity..." Yeah, it's a lot more humid here, but it feels nice. Never thought I'd say it, but it IS good for my skin. The heat index here is about 100°. Still less than our high temps in Colorado.
Because we don't yet have a house built (probably won't have a house built for us for several more years), we actually had to deal with a reduction in living space coming from a 33'x20' Renaissance Festival booth to our campers and RVs and shop. Never thought I'd long for the spacious accommodations of a show booth, but there you go...
And the chores. Ha! We have to add fence building and barn building and brush clearing to our normal run of goat milking, sheep feeding, llama feeding and horse feeding, bottle baby bottling, and general critter watering. On the other hand, the goats (aside from milking) and the chickens seem to be taking care of themselves by nibbling or pecking anything and everything (including the catalog I picked up from Grizzly Industrial... drooooooool.... not to worry, I ordered another :-)).
Other changes include flora and fauna. In Colorado all we saw was pine, scrub oak and wild rose. Here there's... um... well, everything this side of coconuts and bananas. There we had some rabbits, squirrels, crows and deer... and the occasional brown bear. Here, we've got... um... well, again, everything this side of lions, tigers and 'gators (oh, my).
When we lived in Colorado, we were 'weekenders.' That is, we went home during the week. Now, we go home once... at the end of the show. That's the biggest difference. In 9 weeks everything changed! The lambs are sheep, the kids are goats, the trees are in full leaf, we completely missed the strawberries and blackberries, the garden grew and grew and then went to seed... we didn't get much of a harvest (the first thing I did after hopping out of the truck on our return was to check all the animals real quick and then grab a HUGE vine ripened tomato... yum!)
Lastly, there's the drive itself. Used to be, we could drive home Sunday night (we'd arrive looking not much better than a George A. Romero zombie, but it could be done), sleep in late on Monday and get back to it. Now, it's about 1,000 miles. We did drive straight through out there and back... switching drivers or napping alongside the road for an hour or so to keep ourselves safe. But 24 hours on the road... George A. Romero's zombies look liked supermodels when compared to us after those trips. On the other hand, long drives like that are our best brainstorming and planning times and you'll get to see the results of our brainstorming here and in our eBay store soon... and we got to listen to most of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows :-)
Long (way, too long) and short? It's great to be home... can't wait to get back on the road to the next show.
I'm a Gemini, through and through!
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