Feb 19, 2021
But not tomorrow, and that's a good thing. Because all too soon we'll be fretting about another hot dry summer.After several months of very dry winter weather, we've started getting some snow, a coupl...
Jan 22, 2021
Our river is iced up more this winter than the past few winters. We tried walking on the ice until Mr. Troutbend slipped on a slick spot and fell. This is him recovering enough to stand up. He nearly ...
Dec 24, 2020
Every year I enjoy the Jacquie Lawson advent calendar. A neighbor always sends it to me as a gift, and I get hours of enjoyment out of playing the games. Mr. TroutBend decided to come here from Las Ve...
Dec 3, 2020
See that yellow spot north of Columbus, Ohio? Looks like approximately where our blogger pal Jon Adams lives. Yellow means 6 to 8 inches. He's been talking about a good-sized snow storm on Facebook, s...
Nov 25, 2020
Usually I mail out Thanksgiving Day cards, but this year I got caught up in a dispute with the post office over a lost order of stamps, and time got away from me. I don't know what my excuse was for n...
Nov 13, 2020
I wish I could make stuffing that tasted like my mother's. This is how she made it:Lay Wonder bread on the oven racks for a couple of days and let the heat from the pilot light dry it outUse a rolling...
Oct 30, 2020
It was close to us and the air turned blood read from the smoke filtering all but the red spectrum out of the sunlight. This is Estes Park during the evacuation - 15,000 people. This was taken at 2 pm...
Oct 13, 2020
Mr. Tbend's brother is scanning old family 35mm slides and emailing the results. This is a picture of their mother's sister, Aunt Pat, taken in 1949. I sent it to her, and here's her response:Dear Lau...
Sept 28, 2020
What does it look like after the fire passes through? I'm as curious as you are. Fire resistant materials on power poles saved them from the fire. (Pictures are from the power company.) The online com...
Sept 10, 2020
One of the good things that has come out of the pandemic is that it forced government agencies and other entities to put their public meetings online and make use of social media for outreach. It's es...
Sept 3, 2020
Typical Colorado weather: hot, hot through the weekend including Monday, then a high of 45 degrees, low of 26 on Tuesday with rain and snow in the forecast. Shorts and flip flops ======> Coats and sho...
Aug 15, 2020
Our Colorado weather turned hot and dry. Several wildfires started over this past week. Smoke plume extends into the midwest. It is smoky and hazy here. The nearest fire is 35 miles to the northwest o...
Aug 14, 2020
It's a daily question. Tonight we're having Bananas Foster because there's two bananas that aren't getting any younger. And I made some green chili in the Instant Pot so maybe I'll make some flour tor...
Aug 13, 2020
Big Thanks to Eddie for fixing the glitch. Poor guy must have felt hounded - Jeremy left a phone message for him, I sent him a Friend Request on Facebook, and a message, and Dr. Maus contacted his int...
Aug 6, 2020
Here's a summer picture of my dad and his siblings with his dad cooking - camping in Wyoming in the early 1930s. The writing is my dad's. When talking about the picture he said: "Well of course Eleano...
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