Road Trip to Utah for the Sheep Convention

I'm in a motel in Monticello Utah after a nice 7.5 hour drive. It was a beautiful trip with brilliant colors the whole way. After crossing into Utah I pulled off to the side of the road and took a few pictures. I continued driving and took an off ramp so that I could stop and take a few more pictures. When I got to the top of the off ramp I saw a sign for Moab-45 miles and assumed that was where to turn. It took me through a canyon along the Colorado River. Sometimes it was right next to the road, sometimes down a VERY STEEP cliff. The road was narrow and I was glad there was still some light so that I could see the beauty and the need to be cautious and stick to the posted speed limit. As I got into Moab after the long winding road, I saw a sign for I-70, so that may have been a quicker route. The route I took was spectacular though!
I started listening to Ines of My Soul as I left Lyons and listened to it the whole way. I still have two and a half discs until it is done-that should take me well into Colorado. It is a long one!

Dinner with the sheep, chickens and friends

It was feeling like fall but the weather was nice for a fairly short notice potluck dinner at the Farmette. As the kids finished eating they left plates on the ground. Lucy (the dog) was polite and left them alone but the chickens dove in, eating tomato cream soup, bread, cake and even a slice of turkey. Lucy did get a piece of bread, but the chickens ended up taking that too. In this photo, she's trying to figure out which chicken took her bread.

As always, the food was delicious and visiting with the fellow farmetters was a treat.