Flowers from garden

Moon flower

My moon flower finally bloomed this evening, so beautiful and smells wonderful!

Commercial break...Just in...beautiful chiffon ponchos..also.Summer sales at Country Creek Treasures! I'm having a sale also...all blinking dog collars 50% off, all summer pet shirts 25% off..still lots to choose from. Stop in and try the tea-of-day located in the tea house...and check out the 50% off table and other team member sales.. thanks for watching. :) and thanks to so many of you that keep our shop in business...shop local...

It was such a beautifiul cool evening

It is such a beautiful cool evening!. We had a picnic out by the fire pit, then enjoyed some wine until the fire was nothing but embers. There are hundreds of lightening bugs blinking in our back yard, I could just watch them forever, but we had to catch up on the last few episodes of FARGO...hope you all had a good day!

Final stop....Bird City, KS

We have been to Colorado many, many times through the years. We visited all different areas and love it there. On the way home we always visit Bird City, KS. The reason is that we have stopped there many times and have never seen a single human being. The town is perfectly manicured, with clean streets, new buildings, but no people. It looks like the perfect place for the Stepford Wives...today we did see 2 people in front on the post office, and this town dog...that's it..so , it's just kind of a joke to us to stop here..the end.

The Idle Inn again.....

When we were on vacation in 1998 we drove home on Hwy. 36, as we love the small towns along the way. On our first trip we stopped at a little cafe and camp ground near Meadville, MO. It was owned by an older couple that told us interesting stories of owning their business and cooked us breakfast and it was also a museum. Many times through the years we talked about these interesting people and their little cafe, called the Idle Inn.. So all of these years went by and we found it, closed, of course, but we stopped and took some pictures. We were looking around and a guy on a motorcycling drove up and how ironic, it was the son of these two people who owned it. So cool to talk to him and to find out that his dad had passed, but his mom was still alive at 97 and that he had saved the stools and main lunch counter and put them in his new home, such a treat. So, again, here is a photo from the day we were there the first time and last week, sad to see it closed, but it was open for over 30 years, if only those walls could talk.
 

The Idle Inn in 1998

and now.....

The Dunes revisited..

Don't fret, my vacation report is about to come to an end..We left Eagle's Nest, NM and headed for Alamosa, CO.to the Great Sand Dunes National Park.and Preserve. We had been here before, many years ago and camped on the Dunes. An amazing fluke of nature...so here are some photos from THEN and NOW...we climbed to the top of the 700 foot dunes back in 1998 on a cool November day, but since it was nearly 100 degrees the day we were there last week, we decided to just walked in the water that melted down from the mountains.( Sangre De Cristo) . Hundreds of people were enjoying the place though, a must see if you are in the area.
Then......

NOW>>>

 

Cimarron Canyon State Park

We went to Cimarron Canyon state park that wasn't far from our campground, beautiful park. We hiked and climbed around there for a while, really enjoyed the cool morning.

Kaw-Lija's

This became our favorite place to eat in Eagle's Nest, NM, it was a retro 50's and 60's mom and pop place named, Kaw Lija's, like the wooden indian in the Hank William's song..great food, but most of all the people were so friendly and fun with good ol' rock and roll always playing in the background. Of course, there was a wooden Indian standing outside the front door. The menus were on the back of old records. The whole village is very quaint with many family owned businesses.The Cloud 9 gift shop has fresh homemade fudge everyday...there was no dieting on this vacation..lol...Oh, and there was an ice cream parlor in the back of the restaurant..!

Camping at Eagle's Nest, NM

BTW, we drove through Santa Fe, and it was packed with people, traffic and was difficult to find places to park our motorhome, so we decided to come back another time and plan ahead a little more, looked like lots of shopping and art museums, but there were some historical things we were interested in, so that's for another time, so we moved on to our new favorite camping place, Eagle's Nest, NM..just gorgeous. It is in the middle of the mountains that you see in the photos, with a beautiful lake as well, we stayed here a couple of days and visited the sights in the area. We will definitely be coming back here to camp. The days were hot, but was always a breeze, and the nights were cold, one morning we had frost on our motorhome!