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Friday, July 17, 2026

Morning adventures!

Today started early, driving Charlie up to Denver to meet the group going to the LARPing event in Wyoming. We left around 7 which is extremely early for him, and early for me to be out and about though I usually wake up 6ish or earlier. As we headed north on I-25 he looked at the traffic conditions via his phone and saw a big red stretch at Castle Rock, about halfway to our destination: 30 minute delay! A crash was all it said. Happily it was not too late to change course to take Hwy 83 which... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Trivia 2nd Place!

The theme this week was STAR WARS! When first announced, I figured we could handle that topic. But do you know how many movies, TV shows, and animated shows happen in the Star Wars universe? Sooooo many! Our team tonight besides Charlie and me had four other players with a wide range of SW knowledge, but mostly it came down to Charlie's early appreciation back when his brain was fresh and young and had so much room for things like knowing the names of the various species--10 of them for this... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, July 10, 2026

Something new!

On Wednesday evening Charlie and I went to a trivia night at a local shop/restaurant. I'd seen it advertised, the theme being 'nature and science.' I figured I could be useful with that kind of topic. It's all pretty casual. The hosts give each team--we were the Fire Thieves, with T-shirts saying so--5 pages with 1-10 answer spaces. Then we just write down our answers when the questions are given. There are 5 rounds, and after each one each team's score is tallied. We were a team of two, there... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, July 7, 2026

Monday, Tuesday

Sun rose in an orangey sky today. We're promised storms again this afternoon, but all such promises this past week have been disappointments: not a drop! Temps in the 90s, that they get right. And today I heard a prediction of triple digit heat over the weekend. Yesterday Charlie, Vale--my grandperson--and I had lunch at Red Lobster, and though more expensive than I normally choose, we each walked away well fed and well-satisfied. I've found that chain restaurants are totally dependent on the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, July 6, 2026

Kabu is coming...

She asked me to say hi, and let Blogitfolk know she is getting her ducks in a row and will be back among us soon! Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, July 5, 2026

Not an entirely quiet night

For at least a week there have been reminders and exhortations in social and other media here in Colorado that fire danger is extraordinarily high and that official fireworks shows were being cancelled, and to please please refrain from setting off private shows--which are illegal to begin with, but that never stops a few die-hard scofflaws. They were not all stopped last night, either, though this was the quietest 4th of July I've experienced in a while. I posted on FBook: What words describe... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, July 2, 2026

Life going on...

Monday was null; Tuesday was sad; Today life continues. There are many big cumulous clouds in the sky today, and the air is hazy with smoke from half a dozen or more wildfires across the state. Maybe that's why the temperature outside is not quite as high as predicted. We used one of those small air-compressors to put enough air in the flat tire to get it over to Big O about a mile or two from the house. There was a nail... It was extracted, the tire patched and there we were merrily back on the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, July 1, 2026

Sad day

Charlie asked me to drive him with his cat Astrid to the vet because she was lethargic and not eating, unable to stay on her feet. It wasn't until he was getting out of the car that he told me that this might be her last visit, her last day. And so it turned out to be. She's been fighting some kind of immunological disease for several years, taking prednisolone, a steroid, to knock it back, but finally, this thing they were never able to pinpoint exactly, overwhelmed her. She went peacefully,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Cool!

Today is our cool day for the week with high temps in the 80s. Rest of the week, it'll be in the 90s F until the weekend brings in some thunderstorms. There are the most amazing clouds here where the mountains meet the plains! We see them forming, building into monsters that sail eastward over the flat lands and drop buckets of rain, some notable hail and the occasional tornado. Here against the Front Range we get some grand thunderstorms, but only very rarely a tornado. I woke this morning with... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, June 27, 2026

So much for plans...

It got hot again... So our intentions to drive north to visit Dinosaur Ridge a few miles west of Denver are postponed. I don't do well walking around in 90+ heat. It also didn't help to discover yesterday afternoon a flattening tire on the Forester. This morning, even more so. Today my grandkid who works at O'Reilly's is picking up one of those hand-held inflators so Monday I can put enough air in to take it to my mechanic to check it out. Instead of adventuring I'm enjoying a quiet day... Sign in to see full entry.

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I'm doubtful the events of my life will be of great general interest, but I'd like to share a little more of me to the several of you on Blogit I've come to feel are real friends, and the many I imagine are potentially real friends. We'll see how it works out. ______________________ all my words and images posted on Blogit are copyright 2005-present, all rights reserved.

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