Peace-Life in a small town-day 3 and start of 4

It rained most of the day with some pretty good winds. The Meadow Gold truck was still able to make its delivery, parking in the middle of Highway 550 and hand carting the goods in to Ducketts. UPS and Fed Ex parked next to them and made their deliveries into the Ivory’s Trading Company and a small one to the Silver Nugget Restaurant.

Speaking of Silver Nugget, they have the ‘Miner’s Breakfast’ for $7.50; pancakes, sausage, two eggs, toast, hash browns. Who the hell can eat that much food, except the guy I was with. Incredible. Also at the other end of town, for $10 you can have the all you can eat breakfast buffet at the ‘open for breakfast’ place. We didn’t see a name on or near the sign so that is now its name.

Brie, the vizsla, that is a cocoa colored version of the weimaraner, was walking with her owner this morning, carrying her own repelling leash. It was coiled and tied and she carried it like it was the newspaper. Her boss went in for coffee and a bagel at the Backstreet Deli and Brie sat outside, putting her leash down and waiting for master to return.

The Links, up on 8^th Avenue and 4^th Street have their wild squash starting to sprout behind their house, next to the flume that carries the water from Cascade Falls through town. There was a small doe munching on some of their wild daisies next to the road, just under the ash tree behind them. She checked me out, finding I was no threat since I was sucking air so badly climbing the street at over 7700 feet, then she just went back to eating.

The sun just topped the ridge line to the east at about 8:17 this morning. Sun is now starting to warm the valley, a valley you can walk and touch the east and west wall to over a cup of joe. We might head out of town to the north towards Ridgeway and see what shops are there. This is a place you can lose time in, if you don’t work here. Sometimes, I find myself counting the nights we've been here, having to start from the beginning of the trip. When we get back, the world will be spinning fast enough. It’s good just to take a time out and get off the carousel for a while. Aaaaaahhhh.