3/21/12 GOOD TO BE BACK

FOGGY MORNING IN BAYFIELD

Wednesday, 11:30 AM.  56 degrees F, wind W, calm.  It has been a foggy morning but is lifting now.  The barometer predicts sunshine.
        Our two week trip to visit kids and grandkids in Texas and Colorado was short, hectic, but all went well, and all are well.  We left Bayfield with about three feet of snow on the ground and came back to none at all, and early things beginning to leaf out.  The Forsythia are in full bud and the red maple (Acer rubrum) on Manypenny between Eighth and Ninth streets is in full bloom.  Daffodils are five or six inches high in the herb garden. 
        The bears were emerging when we left, and we were greeted by one along the side of the road north of Hayward as we returned last night.  Gasoline was $379.9 a gallon when we left and was still that when we returned.  We paid between that and $355 on the trip.  We averaged 17.2 miles per gallon in the truck, which was loaded pretty heavily from Bayfield to Texas and from Texas to Denver, carting furniture around as well as the three of us and our gear. 
        Buddy had a great time visiting, and stayed in the truck nights we were in motels.  He is a really good traveler.  In the next few blogs I will post some vignettes of the trip.  It was good to go, but just as good to get back.