Adventures at Mule Creek

One of the things we love about Sanpete County is the dark nighttime skies.  It is a great place to view and photograph the stars.  The first night we stayed in our trailer, we laid on the bed with the lights off and the windows open and watched the Milky Way. Milky Way rising over an old hay rake, with Mount Pleasant in the background, with Jupiter on the left   We've also been able to watch Comet Neowise.  It's difficult to see from the Wasatch Front, but can be seen with the naked eye in Sanpete County if you are patient and know where to look.  It's easy to see with a telescope or binoculars. Comet Neowise sits right beneath the Big Dipper Here's to lots more stargazing in the next few months!

Just after the 4th of July, we pulled the trailer to Mule Creek on a Sunday afternoon.  We set her up on the concrete pad, hooked up electrical, water and sewer.  Everything worked and went pretty smoothly.  We bought a freestanding air conditioner unit at Lowes to deal with the summer heat.  It took some effort to get it vented properly through the louvered windows, and then it took a while for it to catch up with the heat.  But by evening it had cooled off nicely. Getting used to RV life takes some time.  There's so little room that everything has to be done very deliberately. The changes in the space from sleeping to eating to working together at the tiny dinette have to be planned out carefully, minimizing movement and avoiding thrashing around.  It's very easy to get in each other's way and on each other's nerves. But we love it.  It's our little home away from home, our cabin in the mountains.

Kathy is a watercolor artist. She's been wanting to take a big step forward in her education and experience, so she registered to pursue a Fine Arts degree in the well-respected art department at Snow College in Ephraim, Utah.  Ephraim is about 90 miles from our home on the Wasatch Front.  Too far for a daily commute, too close to pack up and relocate.  So we looked for a suitable apartment.  Big problem - apartments in the Ephraim area are very expensive, and hard to find.  So we purchased a 1995 22 foot Dutchmen camp trailer. Then we found a place to park it in a small trailer park a few miles north of Ephraim in a place Google Maps calls Mule Creek, although I've yet to hear a local refer to it that way. The guy who sold us the trailer told us he'd had it checked and everything worked great.  Of course, anyone who tells you that about a 25 year old RV is lying.  So we went to work.  New laminate flooring was only about 1/3 installed.  We f...