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Thursday, June 22, 2023

After the storm

The air is so clear this morning, between here and the mountains, after last night's storm. Since I posted the photos I got from the northeast of Colorado Springs, I've seen on Facebook several more from other angles.The one from Woodland Park, a town west of here along Hwy 24, is most impressive, showing the whole massive thing! The year I drove Charlie to his first term at UCCS, from I-70 coming out of Glennwood Springs we began to see a cloud over the top of the canyon. As we drove on, that... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, June 21, 2023

a dark and stormy night...

Hot today, but not bad at the workshop: It has a very high ceiling! Driving home we could see some mighty impressive clouds building out east over the plains, and right now a huge one is filling the sky to the south of us. Forecast here is for a thunderstorm some time tonight, but there are no clouds at alMaybel over the mountains where they usually approach from. I want to get a photo of the big one behind the house, but just when I went for it, the camera demanded feeding. dark I'm giving it... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, June 20, 2023

What, it's only MONDAY??

It has been hot this afternoon, not my favorite atmosphere but it's coming up on 8pm, the sun has dropped behind the mountains, and I've made it through the day without misery taking hold. We've entered the season of early evening showers--not the weather, but washing off the sweat and the last of the heat. It has to come late enough for the sun to be down, but early enough that my hair will dry before I lay down for sleep, to wake up with it going in sixteen different directions! The day... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, June 18, 2023

On this Father's Day...

Father's Day... I had a difficult relationship with my father. He was not a natural parent, was narcissistic though not malignant nor malicious about it. He simply wanted to live his own life unperturbed by distractions such as children. Which is not to say that he was not attached to us in his way, and aware of it from time to time when it came to sharing what he found fascinating in the world, and when we responded, in his estimation, appropriately. He was a scientist, having an appreciation... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, June 14, 2023

Tuesday re-cap

Here it is Wednesday already. Cool but sunny this morning... 70s this afternoon! They say more thunderstorms, too--It has been a very noisy several days and nights! Monday was so wet and stormy, it was an easy choice to stay home. But yesterday we had to go pick up the couch Charlie found that suited all his standards. He has been looking for a while to find one comfy, good for napping on, light enough to wrangle into the loft, and... cheap. He found it at Humanity's ReStore for $37. So he and... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, June 8, 2023

photos up!

Putting photos up has gotten a little more complicated than it used to be as this new laptop has no slot for a memory card, and I have not yet shelled out the $40 to get an adapter. So to process photos, I fire up the old laptop and proceed as I ever did there, then load them up to Flickr, then come back over here and rouse Flickr on this laptop to get the link I can post here: https://flic.kr/p/2oG1K4e Click left to enjoy the recent Colorado skies, and a little treat at the end. Sign in to see full entry.

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Isolating and crocheting days

Sun is shining at the moment, and again today there is a high likelihood of thunder storms. So they say. In fact I did hear some thunder yesterday afternoon, but there has been much disappointment in that prediction all this week. Today I caught up on reading your posts here, but writing has not been coming easily this week. Is it the summer slump that always seems to happen here in Blogitland during the summer months, when writing and reading seem to drop off? Maybe it's just a sense of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, June 4, 2023

Sunday cycling

Well, the morning is chilly and grey, and rain is forecast with thunderstorms from 10 am through all the rest of the day. This is the weather throughout the region, not just here in the Springs. Charlie's Jugger League Day in Denver has been cancelled. I just woke from a very pleasant dream of bicycling around the streets of Olympia, WA where I lived over 30 years before moving out here to Colorado. What made it specially delightful was that I was riding with our CCT who, it seemed, was also... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, June 2, 2023

Cleaning up and metaphors

It has been a lovely late spring day with breezes in the treeses and some nice arrivals on the front porch: two new yarns, and a lovely ginkgo patterned blanket that was sent to me as Mom's Day tribute. It's already on my bed, and one of the yarn skeins is already a ball. It's two balls, actually. As I was rolling it, exercising the required patience to deal with its tangling well before finishing, metaphors came into my head for the process. I am sure the Greeks had dieties who balled up yarn,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, June 1, 2023

Busy week!

Here it is, first evening of June, and the rain is coming down betwixt lightnings and thundrins! I'm good with it--got home before it got here though we could see it coming all the way from the workshop. There were mammatus clouds which are usually present underneath a storm cloud, and in the mountains we could see the grey wall of rain! So much has been accomplished in the workshop this week! Charlie has begrunged quite a few bears, and put up another pole in the costume annex so I could get... 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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