A tour of our "neighborhood"

I absolutely love how the clouds look here. They are amazing! They go on forever and ever. I never realized or even thought about what was in the sky on the other side of the mountains. Now I know its more clouds! As far as you can see. It also seems like they are closer so you can see more detail. On days like this one, when I took these pictures, the clouds look like delicious cotton candy!

 

 

I found out my phone does panoramic photos. Genius! I went a little overboard but I want you to see the whole sky!

 

The picture below is our "front yard". I took it standing on our front steps. The mound of dirt on the left hand side started out as a huge mountain of dirt; there is on by both ends. When it rains ALL the dirt you see turns into a mud puddle. The cars drive through it and leave giant tracks. After it dries up they use these piles of dirt to "re-pave" the parking lot.

 

 

 

This picture is to the west of us. The three man camps you see (there is another one you can't see to the left) are where some of the guys live. Bret lived in the one in the middle when he first came here. There were man camps and trailers shoved between all of these but they had to move. Its the same story for the east side.

 

 

This picture is our backyard. I was standing at the back of our trailer looking to the west. It was crowded with trailers a couple weeks ago. I didn't like letting the girls out there to play, but now this is where they get to run free. It turns into a lake when it rains. Thanks to Grandma Mary Ann for the rain boots the girls haven't ruined any more shoes back here! There is also a horseshoe pit back there.

 

 

This is the rest of our backyard. The building with the green roof is called the dog kennel. The man who owned this property before Craig kept his dogs in there. Hence the name dog kennel. Now it houses four washer and dryers, three showers and a bunch of random stuff. That yellow equipment you see in the background, that is the "yard". The office is on the other side of the dog kennel so you can see just how close we are to Bret's work.

 

This is the opposite view of our backyard. Our lovely trailer is on the left. Those tables are the ones we snatched up from the man camps.

 

When it rains Maycie always says "I sure wish we had a garage so we could park our car in it and it wouldn't get all rained on because me and daddy just washed it." Funny thing is, she went with Bret, one time, the day after we got here and the sprayed the mud off my car, now she gets mad at me when it gets dirty!

 

There you have it. That's our neighborhood.