Got it!
Did a little shuffling and finagling, and picked up the Forester this afternoon! https://flic.kr/p/2rbQ8sT if you want a first look! Sign in to see full entry.
Thursday, June 19, 2025
Summertime
Yep, it's summer today by the weather though the calendar will catch up in a couple of days. We have sunshine and 90F heat! Tomorrow very early Charlie flies off to visit his older sister on the east coast, then to house-sit while she flies off with her younger sister--still older than him!--to a anthrozoology conference in Scotland! He'll be away a couple of weeks. Happily, he's flying from the Colorado Springs airport, about 20 minutes from here and much smaller than Denver's airport. That one... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, June 17, 2025
The next car
It's all rain and thunder this afternoon, with a bit of hail. We went out between storms and made it to the workshop while it was still relatively dry. Across from the workshop is a privately-owned shop that mends and sells cars, and in that space between rains I strolled over and found a car I quite like: a sage-green 2015 Subaru Forester. Before buying the Nissan from a friend, this was the kind of car I'd been looking at. It's a bit higher off the ground which makes getting in and out easier... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, June 13, 2025
Three days later...
Storm clouds are blowing in, bringing cool and probably some thunder and rain, after a sunny, hot morning. As expected, my insurance company agreed the car was a total loss, and the money for it is already in my bank account. Farmer's Insurance, if you want to know. We've heard nothing yet from the police or insurance company about the guy who whacked us then drove off. No dramatic physical problems have developed though we continue wary. I do appreciate all the responses here to the situation.... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Well, that was interesting...
First of all, I'm feeling the whiplash, and Charlie has a sore knee. So we're basically okay. But my little 'dentra' is well and truly totalled, I'm pretty sure. It happened as I was driving him to the workshop around 1pm, driving past some road work, when an absolute idiot of a driver in a 150 pickup truck came tearing out of a side street and tried to occupy the lane we were in. He paused, we made eye contact... and then he drove off. Immediately some of the young men in the road crew came... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, June 6, 2025
It has been an interesting week...
Well, sort of interesting. Maybe it was that I got things done on Monday which I usually muzz my way through, starting the week on Tuesday. But this week Things Got Done all week, and yesterday felt like Friday. It was like getting an extra day back. Maybe I'll try that again next week. One satisfying thing: I finished that crochet project that I started in order to use up some of my yarn stash and ended up buying new yarn to add to the one ball I had--only to find that the color lot was too far... Sign in to see full entry.
Tuesday, June 3, 2025
The Garden Report
With all the rain we've been having, the wisteria buds are ready to burst open into their pretty purple chains. Looks like quite a few this year! It's good weather for them, with sunshine and warmth in the mornings and good hearty waterings in the afternoon and through the night. There are the last of the photo canvases scheduled to arrive this afternoon so tomorrow they'll go up on the last clear wall at the Fire Thieves gallery and pictures will be taken. This month's FT newsletter will... Sign in to see full entry.
Monday, June 2, 2025
There was a chance...
For once we had a lovely clear sky last night, but up to 1am there was no sign of Northern Lights. But I had my camera ready and the moon was there, and I coaxed a nice focus out of the point&shoot which can be quite ornery at times. https://www.flickr.com/photos/therovingeye/54563047811/in/dateposted-public/ I don't know if it's just because I quit taking one of my daily doses--the statin, which has always been a little problematic. When I took one a few years ago, after a time, walking was... Sign in to see full entry.
Sunday, June 1, 2025
stormy weather!
We've been getting dramatic skies in Colorado lately. https://www.flickr.com/photos/therovingeye/ Since the neighbors took down the dying trees across the street the view of the skies to the north and west have opened up and made for some very pretty sunsets. Today started all bright and sunny but just around 2 the clouds started pouring rain over the mountains and built up some wonderful textures overhead. The rain moved in here around 3, with a little hail and enough force to give the car a... Sign in to see full entry.
Friday, May 30, 2025
Change in the weather
It has rained all week, and may be thunderstorming this afternoon, but temps are rising, expecting to get up to 80F this afternoon! I woke at 3 am to the sound of some kind of critter fight that went on at least 10 minutes down the street. I suspect racoons, or maybe a fox was involved. A couple of years ago there was a night fight between 3 young racoons and one of our community cats, the big orange fellow. I witnessed that one, seeing the racoons tear off down a storm drain and the cat, up the... Sign in to see full entry.