May 22, 2022
We go from a daytime high of 70 degrees to inches of snow the next day with an overnight low of 20. The forecast said it was going to be 11 degrees, but I don't think it got that low.This is the reaso...
May 6, 2022
Remember the little old lady in Loveland CO who was assaulted by cops in Loveland Colorado? They broke her arm, dislocated her shoulder, and for hours didn't seek medical attention for her, didn't men...
Apr 2, 2022
Many happy returns....
Mar 26, 2022
And many happy returns!!!...
Mar 14, 2022
February 15th a speeding teenager plowed into the back of my truck right outside my gate. My truck:The damage doesn't look too bad, but she was going 60 mph, and had started to turn into oncoming traf...
Feb 23, 2022
CNN ran a story about a scientific study performed at the University of California San Diego, published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, that measured the physical activity of over 5,...
Feb 20, 2022
The Big Thompson River, upstream from my bridge.All of a sudden more of the month is behind us than ahead, and we're heading into the time to start seeds indoors, getting ready for summer. This has be...
Jan 27, 2022
We had warm, dry weather late into November, and I'm already thinking of this summer's garden, so winter is very short this year.Meanwhile, this is what it looks like:Looks cold, doesn't it? It is....
Dec 20, 2021
For Christmas Dinner I'm serving shrimp scampi with bowtie pasta prepared Alfredo style because the bowties are easier to eat than stringy spaghetti and not as tube-y as penne. There may be a romaine ...
Dec 7, 2021
I'll bet the trash guys in Las Vegas miss me being there during the holidays - I always gave them $20 each when I was there. It was a big project to listen for the truck coming and rush out there whil...
Nov 4, 2021
Ddubluvah's post about turkeys reminds me of my own turkey issues this year.Here's a wild turkey in our backyard in April. No, I'm not tempted to shoot one of those. I haven't decided if I'll buy a tu...
Oct 10, 2021
Our first hard freeze/chance of snow is coming this week, which is not to say that we've seen the end of nice weather. I took a walk around the property the other day and one of things I was looking f...
Sept 29, 2021
Up until the last month or so, the old people around here were happily not wearing masks in the grocery store because we were all vaccinated and we thought we'd paid our dues by staying home all those...
Sept 11, 2021
One recent afternoon I glanced out the kitchen window and a medium-sized bear was rolling around in the backyard clover patch. It was having a great time, either eating insects or clover, got up and d...
July 6, 2021
We decided to rent a roll-off dumpster and get rid of a bunch of our stuff that is not in good enough shape to be donated. The dumpster is 7 feet wide by 12 feet long, with 4 foot sides - 12 cubic yar...