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Monday, November 3, 2025

Yoyo weather, yoyo time!

Last week there was that overnight temp of 15 F. Yesterday it was 83 in the afternoon. Today, the high is mid-50s and overnight will drop into the 30s. Tomorrow, 74. Welcome to Colorado in the Season of the Layering! And here we are again in the time of time confusion. Half the clocks in my house are aligned with my internal time, the rest are lying. By next week, though, those are the ones I'll be believing. Stupid system, this time switch twice a year, instead of simply living in the world of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, October 29, 2025

HOW cold...?!

This morning I asked as I usually do when I wake up and before I climb out of the warmth of bed and comforter, "Alexa, what's the temperature?" Lately, the answer has been somewhere in the 30s. Yep, winter is coming and the leaves are giving up the green. This morning...? "15 degrees. Expect a high today of 54." 15!? Seriously? Apparently so. And last night around midnight I heard the voices of a small gathering of coyotes somewhere near, maybe a block away. There's a strip of wild along a creek... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, October 27, 2025

I knew this was coming...

There's a wind up and the leaves are rattling on the great old maple tree off the end of my deck, and flurries of leaves are dancing in the air like frantic butterflies! Last week the maple was still green, just showing a bit of gold, and it only took a couple of cold nights for the change. Today was warm, low 70s, but now the sun has ducked behind the mountains and the thermometer is heading down the glass rapidly. If the wind keeps up through the night, I expect I'll be able to see Pike's Peak... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, October 22, 2025

Ah, Nature!

In the nature documentaries it's always a clean, quick, quiet kill... Sunday morning up in the mountains, it was not. I heard an owl hoot twice, really near and loud, and then a scream... and that screaming--a rabbit, I think--went on for long seconds moving very fast across the lake before all went silent. I also never heard of an owl announcing its pounce, if that was indeed what was happening. I'm imagining Darth Vader gloating, " I have you now! " Clearly, The Force was not with the rabbit... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, October 21, 2025

Further Adventures of the Weekend

Besides the skies, there are the trees. Over in Facebook I've been posting a lot of images in the Unique Trees group for a while and that's made me more than ever aware everywhere I go of how beautiful trees are! Up high in the mountains, here on the verge of winter, all the aspens have dropped their colors and stand like pale ghosts in their clusters among the dark evergreens. It doesn't take much sunlight to make them glow! We drove up through Nederland (you might have heard of a terrible... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, October 20, 2025

What an adventure!

This past weekend was the final LARP weekend of the year at Lake Tumbleson, a YMCA campground near Ward, Colorado. It's a little over 9000 ft elevation so about 3000 ft higher than what we're used to but not enough of a difference to notice much. And it's an 80 mile drive each way. We were supposed to head up there on Friday--Charlie, Vale, and I--and got as far as Castlerock when suddenly a warning light--something about transmission temperature--flashed on. Not good. Vale works at O'Reilly's... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, October 14, 2025

A special moment!

Today we stopped at our favorite middle-eastern restaurant, and it happened that the owner was there for whatever reason. The server said something about some kind of crisis they'd had but didn't say what. Anyway, I had the chance to tell him how much we like the food, I especially like their baba ghanouj, and we're always bringing someone to try it or recommending it. After all, how often do you get the opportunity to talk to the owner? I figured he can always enjoy hearing good things about... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, October 12, 2025

Looking Up

So many clouds in the sky today! So many kinds, so many forecasts of changing weathers on the way! It started with a mighty shelf cloud stretching from north to south, filling the eastern sky! I dropped Charlie off for jugger practice--every Sunday, 10-noon--and drove up to the highest land in the area, short of driving up Pike's Peak, and even so there was no view that would even begin to fit in my camera's lens. So I headed towards home... and got distracted... I've been posting in a Facebook... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, October 9, 2025

Busy days!

Well, I laid out the whole weekend of busyness in several paragraphs and then hit the wrong key... Suffice it to say, my doctor would be pleased with how much walking I've been doing since Friday! Birthday shenanigans, final jugger league day of the year, random runnings-around, yesterday's teachers' rally... I'm glad for a quiet day until I go pick up Charlie around 3 after he spent an overnight at the workshop. Fall is glowing and blowing--Many leaves have yet to turn, but every wind carries... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, October 3, 2025

Birthday!

Here it is again, just like every year... This morning we drove up to Green Mountain Falls to see an art installation I've been hearing about all summer. It ends Oct 19, and it's not that far away, so a perfect outing on a lovely fall day. Pictures...? Of course! I put a few up over on Fbook, but more of them on Flickr: https://flic.kr/p/2rxarHm Enjoy! Sign in to see full entry.

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