This is my shop

Living in an rv can give you many challenges. 

If you are a tool freak like I am then it poses more than a normal amount. 

Hubs and I love to make and build things. 

In an rv they have to be smaller things and that is okay. 

We have a lot of tools but no shop. 

This is where we work. 

And this is why we do not get as much done as we would like. 

Missy

People can be very strange

I mean it. Really strange creative...

Look at what someone did. 

 The plow scooped up a huge slab of snow and deposited 

it on the side of the road. 

The next time we drove by, this is the sculpture that greeted us.

 

I really like the carving done on the snow, the addition of an eye and snout.

It looks like one of those carved bears. 

Even the tail is cute. 

I tell you, people can be very strange..

And no. It was not me.

Snow....

The snow  has been everywhere.

I hear people claiming that it is almost spring.

Then it snows 6 more inches.

It is tough for a Texas transplant.

We thought the first year we were here was bad.

We had a whopping 54 inches of snow that season.

Of course, most of that arrived about 4 days before we returned. 

We had to learn to shovel it.

That is hard work.

Move forward to this winter.

September 30th, 2009 the heater went on. What the???? No,no,no... heaters go on in December, right?

No, not here. It was still September.

So, along comes December.... 3.5 feet overnight. 

 Okay, I can handle that. Not that it really melted, being as it was December and all.

We had pockets of more snow in December and January. Nothing too bad. It was manageable.

Then comes January.

6 inches one day...it melts some

8 inches the next day....it melts some

Then we had the big honker of a snow storm.

45 INCHES OVERNIGHT

 Yeah, really, 45 inches

And it stayed and stayed..and to add injury to the insult... the roof of our local half price bookstore collapsed.

And it snows, and snows, and snows....

We have now had about 125 inches this season and more is due.

 I feel trapped in the house and unable to do any of the projects that are on my schedule.

I am waiting diligently for the sun to shine and the ground to melt.

I know it will happen.

I need to remember this in July when it is hot.

Where do I Live, You Ask?

Does this look familiar?

It is a very deep place...

It might not look too familiar like this.
Most people do not see it coated in snow.

Yes, I have to admit it...
I live in
the Grand Canyon National Park

Right in the middle of the National Park.

It sounds so cool to be able to say it.
"I live in a national park".

When you talk to someone on the phone and they ask the question....it is fun to be able to tell them. 

"Yep, right in the middle of the park."

Are there benefits of living here? Oh yes.

Are there drawbacks? Many....

Is it interesting? Mostly

Does it drive me nuts... Daily.

But, the pay is good and the housing is cheap.
Or it will be if it ever warms back up and we can quit buying propane.
Winter at the Canyon is interesting, to say the least.