DON'T YOU LOVE A LIBRARY BOOK SALE

So Many Books, So Little-----well you know how it goes.

Our wonderful library had their annual book sale in July and I think we sorted 5000+ books. Many full-time and part-time residents donate books frequently for this sale. These are some of the gems I bought.

Looks like a must try recipe to me.

GRAND COUNTY MUSEUM IN HOT SULPHUR SPRINGS

Made a trip recently to Hot Sulphur Springs to the County Museum. Had forgotten how much great stuff they have.

Mary Lyons Cairns was born in Ellsworth, Kansas in 1885. She came to Colorado in 1905 to visity her sister and decided to stay. A teaching position in Grand Lake was responsible for her meeting James Cairns who she married in 1907. From her first arrival in the town until her death in 1972 she was immersed in the pursuit of area history and was an ardent photographer. She wrote 2 fine, illustrated histories of the area and the county of which she was a highly respected citizen.

Original Table and Chairs from the Board Room of the Moffat Road Commission

Turn of the Century Parlor

Old Telephone Switchboard --wish I had one of these for the playroom.

Two-story Outhouse-notice the ladder on the left side. This was to access it in the deep snow.

Grand County One-room School House

Map Rack

My school desks through grade school looked just like these

Blacksmith Shop

Roof of Blacksmith Shop

TRAIL RIDGE ROAD

Trail Ridge Road is the highest paved continuous road in the United States. (Please let me have that right.) It runs through Rocky Mountain National Park from Estes Park to Grand Lake. It is usually cleared of snow and open around Memorial Day. It's a beautiful summer drive and peaks at just over 12,000 feet above sea level. Leaves some people a little short of breath but usually its attributed to the views. These photo's were taken the 2nd week in June.

Trail Ridge Visitors Center

There is a 2 foot rock wall under the snow and the view below

is what you would see if the snowbank wasn't there.

Looking East



Snowbank along road near the top.

Colorado River on the West Side. This is where the kids usually put the canoe in to come downriver.

JUNIPER LIBRARY FUND RAISER

The Friends of the Grand County Library held their annual fundraiser at the Grand Lake Yacht Club on June 27th, 2008. The wine tasting/auction was done beautifully as usual. No, I'm not a member of the Yacht Club and No, I don't drink but I can buy a ticket with the best of them. My daughter attended with me and I only embarrassed us once when I ask "where do we put the tickets for the door prize" and they were actually the tickets used to obtain "our wine" for the wine tasting. We got our Coke and Sprite and wandered around looking like we belonged?
The Auction items were beautifully decorated tables designed around the Title of Books.

"Ciao Colorado" A beautiful cookbook of Italian Family Cooking by Physsis Newton

"Barefoot in the Park" Neil Simon

"My Life in France" by Julia Child

"A Walking Tour of Historic Grand Lake"

"The Virginian"

"Sailing Above The Clouds" by Dorothy O'Ryan

"A Colorado Kind of Christmas" by Sally Daniel

"Dancing in the Light of the Moon"

BUFFALO BARBECUE WEEKEND

We have a big Tourist Attraction almost every weekend during the summer. This weekend was the big Buffalo Barbecue with lots going on

There was the Library Fund Raising Book Sale--Last day was $1.00 for a box of books. I helped several days to get ready for it and we had a gazillion books to sell. Made me remember my days of working in the bookstore.

Then the Pancake Breakfast yesterday morning and the Buffalo Barbecue this afternoon. True Buffalo meat shreaded on a bun with lots of accessories. Yummy.

The parade is "Unique" as most small town parade's are:

This guy looks just like Bill Geist on CBS Sunday Morning

The lovely lady above and the nice gentleman in the photo below are in an interesting situation. Judy Burke is our past mayor and Harrington "won" the election several months ago by (2) votes. Then they found out that two people voted that did not live in the town limits so the election was declared Void and the re-election hasn't taken place yet. I don't think we have a Mayor right now. Mind you the total vote was something like 56-58. Told you this was a small town.

Our wonderful Fire Department and Volunteers. Please let them, plus several B52 Bombers and 5000 additional National Guard and Fire Fighting Crews be able to save our valley if the fires do come.

Two Bears--The one we had in our garbage the first week and our friend Smoky

If my info is correct this is really an old jail house. This weekend you can have anybody put in jail for an hour for a donation.

Every town needs a dance floor on wheels.

We've got our Rodeo Princess,

Uncle Sam and Family

the Token Tractor

Horses

And last but not least, the pooper scooper.