Still kicking II

Nothing much to report as we have been sticking close to home until the truck gets repaired on Tuesday as John doesn't want to be on a gravel road somewhere and have us breakdown.  We are both starting to get a bit stir crazy.

We have been down to the rapids a couple of times and watched rafters and a couple of kayakers maneuvering through the rapids which is always interesting.  The river flow has come down quite a bit in the past week.  One guy in his small whitewater kayak got caught in the depression where the upper rapid flowed in to the lower rapid.  It was fascinating watching him work his kayak to get out the depression without rolling the kayak.  Once he was free of the depression and into the boiling water, he did end up rolling his kayak.  He wasn't upside down too long (must have been really cold on his face; he was wearing a dry suit) and was right side up again and floating down the river.  He and his buddy rode through the last rapid, floated a short way down the river, and paddled back up to the rapid to ride it again.  This was repeated several times as we watched.  They really looked like they knew what they were doing.

We attended today's potluck where the main dish was turkey gumbo (turkey that was left over from their turkey fry on Thursday which we missed) along with all the side dishes and desserts everyone brought.  We had fun table mates and sat for a while after dinner just chatting.  From the amount of food present, if anyone went home hungry, it was certainly their own fault.

We have been having issues with our new Samsung Hotspot internet device and are now on our second unit.   We got the replacement on Friday and all was well until this afternoon.  Spent an hour on the phone with tech support.  The device was showing we had connection, the computer showed we had connection, but we couldn't connect.  When we came back from the potluck, we were able to connect again.  Maybe it was a Verizon issue and not the device.  However, this evening, we keep getting bumped off both off the laptop and John's phone.  So frustrating.

Since we are being boring with nothing new to write about, I thought I would include some pictures of our local fox and doe from yesterday as well as the awesome sky we had this evening.

We haven't seen red skies like this since we left Tucson.  Gorgeous.