Of course, when your working vacation happens in a place like this, it can hardly be called working. Especially when you know that at home heat indexes are well into triple digits!
Yes, more work was needed at our Colorado cabin. And more work was accomplished! Just take a look at the rainfall beautifully beading on the newly re-sealed deck!
Even more impressive, I think, was the transformation of the much-weathered railing. You might remember my railing tales from a post from several years ago. Well, lots of sun and snow can really do a number on even the most carefully painted surfaces. Here's a look at one of the worst sections, after some serious scraping...
...and then after priming and repainting—doesn't it look almost brand new?!
(If you look closely at the rear of the top photo you'll see our old DirecTV dish, which friend Garry—who was indispensable in all this work, BTW—thanks so much!—was able to take down, only after we'd both bonked heads on it more than once. And why, you might ask, did we cancel that service? Hint: it wasn't just because the dish was a head-cracking hazard. Because we have good internet in the valley now! Thanks to the ring of satellites put up by someone I'd rather not mention. But they sure work wonderfully, so that we can stream, email, chat, and do everything else we used to have to go somewhere else to do.)
Another reason the "working" part of the vacation was only partly accurate is that there were often afternoon showers, which makes this kind of work impossible. So we really only had to work half days, leaving the afternoons for lazing about, reading, and enjoying displays like these:
Here's a closeup of an even more impressive example of refraction:
Pretty sweet, eh? And the best part is that soon after arriving back home to the sauna of San Antonio, I was able to escape it again for a while. In a completely different direction! I'll tell you about that next time.
