Our "Free" Campsite Pays Off!

Thursday, May 20th we arrived in the south Denver area to settle in to our temporary home at South Park Mobile Home Community.  We will be parked here for about 2 1/2 months while Dale goes to the doctor for his chronic pain issue and a shot/procedure we are in hopes will give him some relief.  I will also be having my other knee replacement while here.  If all goes as planned, we hope I will be ready to roll by the first of August.   We are parked here among the permanent residents.  This is the first time we have ever put on the 'skirt' that came with the trailer.

Even temporary residents are asked to take care of the lawn around their rigs during their stay.  They provide some tools as well as a push reel mower.  Dale has cleaned up the flower beds that were neglected over the winter.  He left the perennials that were coming back and added some annuals we purchased.  We got some more today to add to the bed below and put around the bottom of the bird bath.  

  

Today my clever husband made our 'free campsite' really pay off.  While we were parked up in the Pike National Forest, Dale spent some time cleaning up the area of various debris left by the not so ideal campers. Among the trash and junk he found was a bunch of used wiring someone had left as trash in the surrounding camp area.  He remembered as a young man his father would bring home wiring scraps for he and his brother to strip and sell for extra cash.  He ended up picking up a large bag of alumimum cans, a couple large bags of trash and a big bunch of discarded wire.  Today, while we were out running our errands we stopped by a metal recycling center.  Dale took his 'find' to the scales.  His efforts were rewarded with $35.95!!!  Needless to say we were both delighted and surprised.

This is an entirely different part of Denver than where we used to live. We have been trying to get aquainted with our new neighborhood. We are discovering several stores, the library, the church and other attractions within easy driving distance. We are finding we have NOT missed the traffic and fast-paced life of metro Denver. It is nice to be back to the Denver climate though.

Unless something extraordinary happens I will only be posting weekly for a while.  But please, stay tuned!