Cody---continued, May 31st-June 3rd

Tuesday, May 31^st

Dan went to the Wyoming Armory, aka a gun store, to drop off guns for some work and pick up one that he had built to shoot in the matches this weekend.  Me, I stayed back at the ranch and did laundry, $11.50 worth.  At least we’ll smell nice.

Wednesday, June 1^st

Dan met with the guy who built his slug gun for a trip to the range to get the low down on how to make it shoot straight...always a good thing when you’re in competition.  One thing led to another and the day was gone.  As for me I loved being able to do nothing, get caught up on computer stuff and my TV intake.

Thursday, June 2^nd

It’s site in day at the range from 8am-4pm, so Dan headed out around 7:45am while I finished reading the paper and doing crosswords.  Now I know I’m not real good at judging time, but the next thing I know Dan is back...wow that day went way too fast I think.  I’m relieved to find out the he got half way to the range and remembered that the spotting scope wasn’t in the truck, another good thing to have when you’re shooting at 200 yards.  So off he goes for the 2^nd time.  Dan reminded me he would be back around 1pm so I could go on my big excursion...shopping at K-Mart and Walgreens.  OH BOY!!!

Phone rings about 12:30, just know it’s Dan saying he’s been delayed, but it’s a 307 area code...it’s Brenda from the RV park in Thermopolis.  When they were cleaning up they found some sort of controller or sensor by our site.  I started to laugh and asked was it crushed to pieces, no she said it was in perfect shape.  Now that’s something really amazing.  I bought a clock with an indoor and outdoor thermometer so we could keep track of the cold weather here in WY.  In order to do that the  above mentioned sensor has to be outside, bet you already figured that out.  In order to keep it dry during the rain Sunday and snow Monday, Dan put it on the wheel of the trailer.  Well, both of us thought several times about bringing it in before we left but obviously we didn’t.  Dan thought about it half way to Cody and just wasn’t going to turn around...I don’t understand, I mean it was only 40 miles and it wasn’t snowing so bad now.  But he insisted it wasn’t necessary, we could just guess how cold it was outside.  So it was just plain weird that Brenda would call...she’s mailing it to us so we’ll be back in business for our next trip.

A short while later Dan called to say he would be another 30 minutes, but, there’s always a but these days...  He would have to go back to the range for a couple of hours, because he forgot the bullets to one of the guns he needed to site in.  Kinda hard to shoot without bullets.  I dropped him off at the range and had my big adventure to Walgreens for Claritin-D and K-Mart for nothing...not a very big store even thought it said BIG K on the sign outside.  I guess when you have a population of 8800 and BIG mountains you don’t need other big things.  I headed back to the range to get Dan and he still had one more shot to take, “hopefully” he said.  An hour and a half later we were leaving.  I’m sitting in the building behind the shooting line.  Granted it’s not  meant to be a Taj Mahal, it’s your very basic man cave....big square room with OBS tables, big wood burning stove for those really cold days, they didn’t think today was a cold day, in my opinion it was FREEZING in there.  There's the requisite coffee pot and a couple of windows to watch the guys and gals shooting.  You guessed it, the windows weren’t double paned so you could hear all the guys gabbing about this, that and the other and oh yeah....THE GUNS BEING SHOT!!!  If you’ve never had the privilege of being near a shooting line when a slug gun goes off, it’s something special...it’s a wonder any of these guys can hear at all, even wearing ear protection, which is a must, it’s still LOUD.  I probably lifted several inches off the seat each time...glad I was the only one in the room....lol

I thought my real big adventure for the day would be going to Wal-Mart to get dinner, fried chicken and baked beans and $90 worth of “stuff” that I just know we’re gonna need for the next 2 weeks until we get home.  Boy was I mistaken, as the sun started to go down the winds started to pick up and when I say pick up I mean blowing 55 mph steady.  That continued through the night, needless to say I didn’t get any sleep.  I felt like we were going to end up in Kansas before we should...maybe we will be home by the 10^th!

Friday, June 3rd

The winds continued pretty much all day.  I mean the trailer was rocking back and forth and making the most horrible creaking noises, I really thought we were going to bust a seam or something.  It was quite eerie.  Dan ran (well not literally) to the range to see how the matches were going or if they were even going to shoot.  Turns out  the winds were just too much for the manly men to conquer, so they postponed until tomorrow.  That means there'll be 3 matches Saturday...."we'll shoot until we puke if necessary" words from the head honcho, Steve.  The rest of the day was rather boring, Dan loaded powder for the shoot and I finally got caught up on this blog....FINALLY!!!  Didn't think it would ever happen.  We walked to the Sunset House for dinner and both had a great meal then to the DQ for dessert, that's why I had a nice salad for dinner.  The Carmel Toffee Cookie Blizzard was soooo good.  Working on Manhattan..,,.will walk into town tomorrow to browse the stores and hopefully get rid of the blizzard!

I'm afraid the rest of our stay here will be somewhat boring, but on the oft chance that one of us does something worth mentioning I'll be sure to let you know.

Stay tuned...