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Tuesday, June 18, 2013

Today the sun is bright, the sky blue

But yesterday, late morning to evening, there were great dark clouds with great hanging veils of rain-fall all the way from the mountains to the prairie--literally! And some areas got a good drenching, including the fire zone. Hurray! for that! Often we see skies like that, but the rain seems to go around this neighborhood. Last year, there was a huge hail storm, hail on the ground as deep as cars! We caught the edge of it, 2-3 miles away, and never saw more than a smattering of hail. I was... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, June 17, 2013

There's another mountain

South of Pike's Peak, and clear to see from the side and back of my house, the Front Range of the Rockies seems to end, and the last mountain in the row bristles with radio and cell towers, and who knows what-all. There is a road up this mountain, and I've been told there is a road sign halfway up that warns, 'If you proceed beyond this point, you may be shot." Welcome to Cheyenne Mountain, in the heart of which dwells NORAD, the North American Aerospace Defense Command which is there to track... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, June 16, 2013

Naut said--

That he thought Davy was a blond, and I am thinking this might be why: http://www.flickr.com/photos/therovingeye/7943962900/ Violetta gave me some anxious moments last night, when I couldn't find her anywhere in the house, at bed-time. The back door had been open, but she has never gone further than just past the bottom of the steps into the back yard. She scoots right back, too, as soon as I call her. Timid, she is... and it seemed unlikely she'd actually jumped the fence. But possible. I got... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, June 14, 2013

my muse

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Listening to the morning

A red-winged blackbird just sang out from the top of a nearby tree. They fly up from the reeds in the little wetland area a block away, where a stream slides through a low area, and has been granted about 100 feet of land on either side, sloping down from city streets and buildings. The blackbirds are singing down there all the time, so it's a treat to hear one's bright trill, up here. Other songbirds are singing loudly and a lot. The mourning doves' voices are like soft caws as they fly from... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, June 13, 2013

The wind is once again tossing the tree tops and shifting the deck furniture, and sifting fine dust into all the downstairs windowframes. It is a rare thing, a full day of stillness, it seems. Of course, it seems cooler because of it, but it also makes things dryer, especially when the humidity is below 10% as it has been lately. Later, the wind will die down, most likely, and the evening will be quiet and calm. There is a lot of cloud and smoke in the sky. It's hard to see which is which, but... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, June 12, 2013

I knew there was poetry ready to surface...

Heat of the Day The sun glares down on white concrete that once warmed, now stings little bare feet. Upon the couch, or floor or chair or... really, anywhere a cat can go, limbs akimbo, bellyfur exposed, she stretches out long as cat can be, cat-naps away the heat of the day. Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, June 11, 2013

The wind is blowing gustily

enough to shift the higher profile deck furniture around, so I brought those two chairs indoors. There is a great deal of dust in the air between here and the Peak. We are on the start of an incline up towards the plains, so there is a vale between the plains and peaks, that sometimes gets all stirred up so you can't even see the mountains! Great news: Three of my beans have popped and are unfolding those first leaves! And I believe that some tiny green stems are discernible in the sweet-pea... Sign in to see full entry.

Movie Night

After a long, hot day, Charlie came over with the last three episodes of GAME OF THRONES, that one of his friends records for us. We sat in the new guest room where it's cooler than upstairs, as I may have mentioned before, and watched the first two, then came upstairs to make bison burgers which were very tasty, but I slopped too much oil in the pan: when I flipped the first one, the oil splattered, and I was in the way of some of it. Not much, it only tingles some on a bit of my right forearm.... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, June 9, 2013

Some vulgar conversation about money, sales and deals

It's a quiet Sunday noon here, now. Later, I will be driving my lad up to Denver for a must-attend meeting. I don't look forward to navigating through Denver downtown, or looking for parking. But it must be attended to. Yesterday was another day of great thrift store finds! Another $12.50 recliner, this one for downstairs, in the guest room. A round table on short legs--table is the size of a family table at a Chinese restaurant--and is in the garage which is turning into a gaming space for any... Sign in to see full entry.

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