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Tuesday, September 24, 2013

A fine fall day

The past two days have been perfectly lovely! Cool, after a chilly morning, kindly weather, clear skies... I now have both Madame LaDarque and a couple of blue jays taking an interest in the peanuts I have on offer. Today she took one from my fingers with her mouth, and a second, she reached out with her delicate fingers, and grabbed, then made off across the yard with both of them in her mouth. I think she jams the first one halfway down her throat, to fit the next between her jaws. Today, it... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, September 23, 2013

I spoke too soon...

Rain came again yesterday afternoon, in force with wind and a scattering of pea-sized hail, lightning and thunder flashing and rolling... Not a long storm, but definitely a doozy! But there was only the one, and it didn't last even an hour as it swept from south to north along the Front Range. The heat, however, and summer, are definitely passed: I look out on the Peak this morning, and there is snow on the slopes even down past treeline, and a mantle of cloud over the highest points. All this... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, September 22, 2013

Change in the weather

I can tell the big rains are done for now: I had to water my deck garden today, and almost left it too late~ some of the plants are all a-wither, but hopefully they will perk up in a while. The heat, too, has gone for now. I am very glad of that, I don't do heat well! Charlie's latest show opened this weekend. It is a series of short one-act bits, an annual affair at Theater d'Art, called Theatergasm. Charlie directed and acts in a devised performance based on The Firebird. I suppose you could... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, September 19, 2013

Bed

A bed is supposed to be comfortable. When I moved in here last winter, I didn't have a comfortable bed. That wasn't going to stop me moving in, naturally--I had every intention of making do with what I had until I could do better. So, it began with a twin sized airbed to which I added the 4 inch foam pad from the RV. It had two problems: it was too close to the ground for my knees, for getting up; and it wobbled. Every time I moved, it moved. Airbeds are like that. They move like they have lives... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, September 17, 2013

Colorado Katrina

At dawn today, the air was full of fog, even the trees across the street were only faintly to be seen. But by 9am, blue had begun to appear overhead... and now, the day is clear and bright, and there is only the tiniest bit of white fluff over the Peak. This disaster, spread over a region 150 miles north to south, and from the mountains across the plains, will take months, even years to come back from. Some of us, very lucky ones, have sustained little to no impact in our immediate neighborhoods... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, September 16, 2013

Grey today

The sky is a flat grey, in fact a mist that I can feel on the breeze. It rained a steady, low-key rain into the night, and stopped around midnight. North of here, matters are not better. My sister asked about the possibility of bringing Mom to stay here for a time. How much time was not mentioned. The crisis in Estes Park now includes a 'no-flush' alert, and she is considering what they can do besides flush. A porta-potty would be impossible for Mom to use. She will be 91 in a couple of weeks,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, September 15, 2013

The Breakfast Hour

Waking up at 6:30, I am privileged to see a fiery dawn sky in the east, enjoying that view even as I pry open the first cat food can of the day for a very insistantly vocal Violetta Scampercat. Once she is face down in her little china dish, suctioning up her chicken in gravy dinner breakfast, I look at the same fire reflecting on the mountains to the west, as I sit and fire up this machine. Then, I have to get up again, and with each of my two cameras, capture the view of the Peak and the few... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, September 14, 2013

A new song for Colorado

I've seen fire and I've seen rain... The sky has reappeared, the blue one, with sun shining through. The clouds over the mountain are not those imminent-rain kind. Because I don't have TV and hardly ever look at the local paper, I was only vaguely aware that other parts of the state north of here were getting seriously bad rains and floods. I wrote an email to my sister in Estes Park about a possible visit next week, when Charlie had one of those Dinner Detective shows to do at the Stanley... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, September 13, 2013

The clouds are walking

and it is raining, off and on, light and sometimes not so light. Beyond the trees of the neighborhood, nothing can be seen but grey. And on such a day, it is easy to imagine anything beyond view. It might be perfectly flat out there, the Rockies smoothed down, a plateau all the way to Utah. That would suit our CCT, I believe. Or there could be an ocean--California, Nevada, Utah all dropped off during the night, and Naut is that much closer to the Pacific. Maybe a jungle has grown up overnight,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Another sunset, another cloud...

Some of the grandest skies I've ever seen are over Colorado Springs. In the summer, thunderheads build to massive heights, to dump out epic storms! And some--subtler, quieter--are all about the art of another unique sunset. The first in this upload was a cloud rising above the mountains, spreading visibly, if one took the time to watch. The rain, when it came, missed our part of the Springs. The sunset was the same sort of cloud, the leading edge of, as it turned out, nothing spectacular. I... Sign in to see full entry.

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