The hEAt is on... and kicking me down.

car grill... road trip, pickings                                     June 2013

Hay... here's those grill pickings form the last post pinned onto the white pearl eraser... bound for the sketch book journal 

Well i can say this is a HOT Panguitch summer and it's only a couple of days old... summer that is. And i can also say that the heat has been kicking my buttocks all week long...  Cleaned the deck last Saturday past knowing the VC would be closed Wednesday & Thursday for parking lot project. What could it possibility take to paint a 500+ sq. ft. deck and all the railings  in 90+degree high desert, no humidly heat... well in my case about two and a half days for the first coat!! The paint was drying almost as fast as i could put it on...
even starting at 0730 it was too hot to go much past 1200... and maybe if the afternoon shadow got on the deck i could start again about 1630 and work till 2000 then soak myself with the water hose as i cleaned up. The heat just saps the energy right out of one even with a hat on and water to drink... you are left with no desire to eat anything or even drink much more. 

During my mid day deck breaks i would drive to red canyon to check on the parking lot progress. Yea hot sticky tar in hot weather, that made the deck seem like not much at all.

thirty-three spaces in black & white...                                           28 June 2013

And they got in done before i got the deck done... well they did have more then one person working on the same project at any given time, but they had an inspector looking over their shoulders... not me and the deck project... though i did, and expect to, have some good conversations with myself. Yes i know this is all, both projects, summer time work, but it could have been a bit cooler.

Then along with all this came the Panguitch Balloon festival, now these are the guys that can use some "hot air" though they do go up early in the cooler mornings before not much wind comes up. This really was one of the better weather years for the balloons. Lots of Family back to Panguitch this festival weekend... to visit the old timers that still live here by those who were born and raised here and have left. The numbers of people go up in town and go down at the visitor center, then we have the Fourth of July, our national holiday coming and then the BIG Utah State holiday on the 24th... if you didn't get home for the balloons you best be here for Pioneer Days... the whole nine yards is going on then. Those stories are for another day...
Balloons up early each of the three days... but the fun part for me is Saturday evening an night... walking the shut down main street lined with hot air balloons and more people then Panguitch ever sees, except for this one night in June. Take a short look...

first give away...                                                                              29 June 2013

They are here somewhere...       29 June 2013

Saturday night glow, main street...                                               29 June 2013

after glow at the GEM...                                       29 June 2013

So that my friends is a festival in small town Utah , not as big as some but we are glad when they all go home and we can get Panguitch back. We don't mind sharing, but we do know that Panguitch is one of those special places on earth and with only about 1,200 souls living here we do need to get back to living here... come visit when and if you can. The deck is screaming for it's second coat and we still have a hot week coming and the Fourth of July fireworks on Thursday at the city park!! Oh yea there is also a week of work at the VC bundled up in this coming  hot week, and if we continue to Fast and Pray for moisture the monsoons may start before the 24th of July... the seven day weather forecast shows a chance of showers most of the week... scattered and in the afternoons as the heat builds those clouds. O ya we do still live in a desert. Best weather predictor... keep your eye on the sky, if the ground is wet...rain, trees moving...wind, you get the picture. Remember: lightning first then thunder.

Cheers...