Sunset and ATV Trip

Last night’s storm clouds treated us to a spectacular sunset.  What do you think?

Today our friends Sarah and Sarge along with their dog Callie joined us and of course Emmi for an ATV ride to Moccasin Lake.  The trip up was glorious, we stopped several times—Callie loves to run alongside the ATV’s—that dog put on so many more miles than we did!  Every creek crossing or mud puddle, she went for a swim.  Emmi just watched her from the basket on Michael’s ATV—“what in the world is that dog doing??” 

We arrived at Moccasin Lake to a view like this:

Storm clouds were building and about the time we all dug out the lunch gear, the bottom fell out.  We all retreated under the shelter of a fir tree—Michael and I had oilskin raincoats, Sarah and Sarge just had jackets—the tree kept a lot of the rain off us but parts of all of us got a soaking.  My feet were soaking wet—I asked Michael this morning if it was OK to wear sneakers instead of boots and he said, “maybe.”  I wish he had said, “no, I think you ought to wear boots.”  Then my feet would have been dry.  It probably rained hard for a good thirty minutes or more.  When it more or less stopped we headed back to the ATV’s and made quick tracks for home enduring only one quick rain shower before arriving to find dry ground, dust—no rain at home.

Hot chocolate and tea warmed us up before Sarge and Sarah headed back over the hill to Chico way.  It was a great day in spite of the rain!