The sign says "His Ranch" - makes you wonder, doesn't it!

 Up and on our way to Alamosa by 9:00 am - beautiful drive over La Veta Pass and to Mass at Sacred Heart Church by 10:30 (on time!). Pretty much everything in this part of Colorado shows the Spanish/Mexican influence - buildings, names of towns and the streets in them, colors, etc - and this church is no exeception, right down to the congregation! Mostly brown skinned people with beautiful black haired children. To eat at Cavillo's Mexican Food Buffet afterwards, then grocery shopping at Walmart and back home by 3:00. There is a town picnic here in La Veta starting at 4:00, and I have promised we'll go check it out...........and we did.....6:00 now, just got home from the picnic. It wasn't a big affair - just a bunch of people gathered in the La Veta City Park, milling around and sitting at picnic tables under the shelter`, live music by a small local group, and someone cooking hotdogs on a grill. For $2, you got a hotdog, chips and a chocolate chip cookie, so now we've had supper!  We sat at a table with Dick & Thelma, a retired minister and his wife, whom we quickly got acquainted with, and were joined by Jim & Peggy Hoobler. Peggy is the local theatre person who directed and organized the melodrama at the Francisco Center for the Performing Arts a couple of weeks ago where Ashley, Ally & I spent a very enjoyable evening. Jim played the "fill in" character "Goober Hoobler", who had everyone laughing so hard!  They live just outside of town and offered to rent me space to park my camper there during the coming winter.