Towards the end of day one after much unloading and hauling of stuff to the property, the neighbors decided to drop by. Two sets of them. At the same time. “Coleen”, the crazy lady with no teeth and a (really) bad mullet, and “Dude” and “Dude’s Wife.” They told us their real names, but I suck with names, so… forgotten. They called us “the pyramid builders.” Apparently we’ve been the subject of much speculation, so when these two different sets of folks drove by, they had to stop and see who these nutjobs were.
As nutjobs, out here we’re in good company. We heard about the dude next door named “Montana” who is apparently not very friendly, and about “Crazy / Psycho What’shisname (Bob?)” across the road who likes to play with dynamite apparently.
Our visitors seemed nice, and were rather friendly, and eventually they saw that we weren’t quite done working so they let us get back to it.
Speaking of which… the pyramid is still standing (good design trumps shoddy construction) and the shrinkwrap flapping in the wind kept the antelope away. We got everything unloaded and most of the materials to the build site up by the pyramid and figured we’d call it a day while we’ve still got light left. It is still a vacation after all.
Anyway, we’ll take the truck back tomorrow morning and then head back out to build the Dome!
On the way up, the Wife was leading and got lost in the fog in Cheyenne and figured I-25 (Northbound) would eventually get us to Rawlins (It wouldn’t). We pulled over and Husband led us back to I-80 (Westbound).
Outside of Cheyenne just before the fog, we saw us some buffalo. Sorry, North American Bison. Mmm… Still good eatin’ no matter what you call ‘em.
We’re totally knackered and have just had showers, so now it’s time to go get some FOOD!
Dinner: Salad Bar, Pizza, and BEER! Then asleep by 9:30.
... Start of day 2: Went back out to the property to take advantage of the lack of wind, only to be faced with cold rain. We got several panels up to the build site and got the first two rows of the dome connected before the wife wussed out and got too cold and wet to continue. (yes, she's OK with that. and so am I) So now we're sitting in McDonalds back in Rawlins and she's drinking a warm carmel mocha and shivering.
We'll head back to Laramie to turn in the truck and then hopefully it will have stopped raining and we can finish assembling the dome. If I have to, I'll finish it while she sits in the car and stays warm. : ) She's game enough, but we all have our limits. I'd rather not make her mad when it's just the two of us surrounded by lots of places to hide a body.
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