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This weekend is Playoff Weekend for pro football. None of the teams we would routinely root for has made it this far. I watch some of the games and generally root for the underdogs but really don’t have a lot invested in the outcomes. It will be interesting to see who makes it to the Super Bowl this year.

There wasn’t much going on at the home front this past week. Some snow fell, enough for me to plow with the garden tractor, but it has since warmed up and melted all but the most stubborn patches of snow and ice where the sun hits. Shady areas are still white. There are 10% – 30% chances of flurries this upcoming week but accumulations will be (hopefully) minor. The high country has received more precipitation, welcome by skiers and good for spring water, but down here we are enjoying typically mild temperatures for this time of year — daytime highs in the low to mid 30 degree range and nights in the high teens to low twenties.

I worked on my web site and added a “Chipper” gallery with links to a couple videos. During these winter days I will be looking at updating other galleries and possibly adding a few more video clips from my library. For example, I added a link to the “Howling Dogs” clip on the Dogs page. Pam laughs at these changes, noting that most folks reading these posts are not that interested in my chipper, but – hey – it keeps me busy when I can’t get outside much.

Otherwise life is pretty routine. Pam continues to view potential retirement homes online and I have started a few projects at work. Weekends have a few minor activities – I moved the vehicles out of the garage and swept / shop-vacuumed the place – and took a 42 mile ATV ride out on Wild Horse Mesa to play in the snow for a bit. Now and then I wash the car at a U-Spray place. This is typical winter weekend stuff.  Not real exciting…

That’s it for now. Thanks for looking in!

Pam’s Penny:

Same-o, same-o.  About a minute more daylight every day. Stay warm.

Happy Trails.

We hope everyone had a good New Year’s Day!

As has been my habit in past first-of-the-year posts, I would like to begin with a short review of 2018 before I get into recent news and events.

The biggest news of 2018 was Pam’s retirement. I can report that she does not miss the long daily commute and likes the time she has to work on projects and taking care of our pets.

The retirement house hunt continued with two trips (May and October) back to the Midwest to meet realtors and view some properties. “The One” has not appeared yet but we continue the search.

Son Toby bought a home in South Bend and was promoted to a crew supervisor position. He seems happy with this. We met with him and a few of his friends on our May trip east; his friends are a varied and friendly group. It looks like he has settled into a routine that suits him.

Daughter Felicity traveled to England and Wales in 2018. She still works for a couple of on-line companies and managed to get overseas for a bit. Travel is her thing. On return to the US she found a studio apartment in Vancouver, Washington, to use as a home base until her next adventure. She would like to get to Australia and New Zealand in 2019. We hope she can swing it.

According to Pam’s notes, we managed 20 visits to The Lot in 2018. Much was accomplished in cleaning up and salvaging firewood. We concentrated in an area we call The Aspen Grove and it is great to be able to walk this area now after the dead and down trees have been removed. Chips were spread on several of our walking paths and we hope they settle in over the winter, resulting in easy-to-walk trails next year.

I was kept busy with working at The Lot, travels back to the Midwest, and my regular job. One project, recently completed, was to redo almost all of my web site pages to move my Galleries and videos off my old hosting service onto the one that hosts this blog page.

Now onto current items.

Pam has been working  on her “barn quilt square” and it is looking pretty good:

Pam’s barn quilt square

Based on a 24″ x 24″  framed canvas foundation, the paint is acrylic.The square is hanging on our front door and can bee seen from the road. It makes for a cheery entrance.

My mother, now in a care facility, appears to be fading according to my brother Jon. Not unexpected but sad just the same. It remains unclear if she can recover enough to move back home but I suspect she will be in the care facility for some time.

I have new projects at work and plans for The Lot are being formulated; more clearing and chipping is in the works. 2019 promises to be another busy year.

As I write this it is snowing fairly hard. The forecast is for 3 – 5 inches of snow today, making this one of the heavier snow falls of the season to date. I’ll be out later shoveling the deck and ramp then firing up the John Deere and using the snow blade to clear off the driveway and sidewalks. Tomorrow it will be back to work.

That’s it for now. Thanks for looking in!

Pam’s Penny:

Retirement.  At last.  Looking for the fun and fulfillment that eluded me in my working years.

Happy Trails.

Fourteen degrees.That was the temperature in Fairplay (Saturday) as I took a trip to The Lot to check on the RV trailer and storage shed.

It had been a couple of months since I was at The Lot, shutting down for the winter season. I thought it was a good time to check to see if mice had made their way into The Box – they have not.

Even though the temperature was cold, it was a gorgeous winter day. The sky was clear and the sunshine bright off the fresh winter snow. Below are a few photos I took during the outing.

The Box, December 29, 2018

I was surprised to be able to make it up the driveway in the car, without four wheel drive. The heavy snow months in the mountains – January and February – are still to come.

Here is a view down the drive and looking out over South Park:

A winter day in South Park

Even the higher parts of The Lot, those facing south or southwest, didn’t have a heavy blanket of snow:

South Park view again, above Pavilion Point

And, to those who received one of our Solstice cards, this view of The Nook may be a bit familiar:

The Nook in bright winter sunlight

While the air was dead calm at The Lot, a breeze was blowing light snow across Elkhorn Ranch Road a few miles away:

Light snow was in the air

It was a good day to be in the mountains and I was relieved to find zero evidence that rodents had taken up residence in The Box. After walking around The Lot a bit, and distributing some odds and ends of bread products for the chipmunks and squirrels, I jumped back in the car and headed home.

I have a few days off for  New Year’s break. Tomorrow we’ll begin to take down outdoor decorations in advance of an approaching storm. This holiday season seemed to fly by very quickly!

Have a good New Year’s Day, everyone.

That’s it for now. Thanks for looking in!

Pam’s Penny:

My New Year’s Resolution is plain (but not-so-simple) — locate and purchase that retirement property in the Midwest.

Happy Trails.

Well. We had a bit of an “episode” that landed Pam in the ER for a few hours. She was having chest pains but attributed the discomfort to heartburn — until her right hand started to tingle. Time to get her heart checked out.

Pam’s vital signs

After a couple hours of tests and chest x-ray, the doctor determined the chance this was a cardio event was very low. Nothing in the blood tests indicated the heart was involved. However, the cause of the pain couldn’t be identified.

We returned home and, over the next few days, the pain subsided (although it is not completely gone as of this writing). Not the best way to spent the week before Christmas…

Adding to the troubles, I found the Honda needs about $1,500.00 in repairs. The radiator is seeping a bit of fluid and at least one ball joint (front suspension) is making noises and needs to be replaced. Additionally, we want to get the routine service done; the car turned over 100,000 miles a few weeks back. Repairs have been scheduled for January 3rd. The car is drivable until then.

Work was not immune; an installation job that should have taken less than a day stretched into four days, as the vendor had shipped the wrong hardware. The upgrade is still not over. The servers are back on-line but I am short four network ports that are used for redundancy and I am not happy about it. The situation will not be fully rectified until after the first of the year, due to vacations and the holidays.

On the bright side, my jaw is healing from the tooth extraction. Absence of pain is a good thing.

I worked on my galleries and have finished converting them. Should you find a gallery or link that does not work, please let me know so I can get it fixed. This project took many hours but I am no longer at the mercy of the old hosting service (and their new business model).

In other family news, daughter Felicity is in a new studio apartment and is settling in — for now. She would like to visit Australia and New Zealand next year and is looking for a house-sit in that part of the world.

Toby is settling into his new home; this will be his first year as a homeowner and he seems to be satisfied with that.

My mother is going into a care facility for some rehab after she had liquid removed from around her lungs and heart. An estate guardian has been appointed to help run the day-to-day operation of her affairs. Mom is upset that she will not be home this Christmas but she needs a level of care that can’t be arranged in a home setting.

Christmas is only a few days away and it looks like we won’t have snow this year. Long-range forecast has dry conditions, with a high on Christmas Day of 41 degrees. (Snow and colder temperatures are in the forecast for the 26th and following days.)  I don’t mind it as these conditions make commuting much easier, but my Midwest upbringing finds it a bit odd.

We hope everyone enjoyed the Solstice and has a Merry Christmas!

That’s it for now. Thanks for looking in.

Pam’s Two Cents  Worth:

I probably wouldn’t have brought in the medical personnel if I hadn’t gone online to check out my symptoms on MedDoc.  According to online information, heart episodes can be mimicked by heartburn or flu symptoms in post-menopausal women (me). Day 1 no big deal, Day 2 somewhat concerned, Day 3 the whole “tight band of pain” thing was getting old. Since I had been running [slightly] high blood pressure in the last five years while working at the stressful (and sedentary) community college job — well, better safe than sorry, right?

Now I have a lovely photo of my lungs and more information about my heart chemicals than I care to know.  They asked to see my Medicare card at check-in, first time for that.  Altogether a surreal (and expensive) experience. And still no definitive answer on what caused it all. I’m not going to be a very good “old person,” I can see that already. First time wearing a hospital identification band in 32 years.

The Solstice on the 21st was partly cloudy here, but I did catch a glimpse of the full moon.  The Solstice and full moon will not occur together again in my lifetime.

Happy Trails.

Pam has been busy this last week decorating the Christmas tree. The ornaments are a combination of hand-made and commercial and the tree looks great. Here are a few photos taken during the decorating process:

Coming out of storage

(Greenwood HS) Cheerleader

Mountain Man

Ballerina

Queen E. I

Santa Bike

Fat Cat (Looks like our Antonio!)

Santa ornament

Golden globe

Decorated tree

Even the Spirit of De Beque received a decoration:

Spirit of De Beque

We hope everyone is getting into the holiday mood.

That’s it for now. Thanks for looking in!

Pam’s Two Cents:

All the holiday stuff is pretty much done – cards, decorating, tree.  (I don’t bake much in light of Fields’ diabetes.) Highlighted above are just a few of our collected ornaments — hand-made or purchased.  The stout branches on this year’s pine allowed me to pull out heavier ornaments that aren’t well supported by lighter-weight evergreens.  There is always at least one ornament on the floor every morning.

I started working on a new project. While in the Midwest on the two trips in May and October, I noticed “quilting squares” on the sides of barns in the countryside drives we took.  I’m working on my own version of a quilting square for our garage, to go up when the holiday lights come down.  Looking at my quilting square will bolster my spirits during the coming days of Winter.

Barn with painted quilt square (Shutterstock image)

Where are your holiday cards, people?! Support the USPS…

Happy Trails.

For the past few years our daughter Felicity has sent us a table-top Christmas tree from Oregon. This year we decided to locate a full-size tree in Colorado.

Pam found a tree farm near Montrose that looked like a good candidate, the Covered Bridge Tree Farm:

Covered Bridge Tree Farm, Montrose, Colorado

We drove about an hour and fifteen minutes to get to the farm, then hopped on their tractor-pulled wagon, and headed out to find a tree. (Well, some of us hopped, some of us climbed slowly and carefully into the wagon…)

On wagon. (Photo by another passenger.)

I located a suitable tree — the first one we looked at and near the road — but Pam needed to look around a bit before I cut it.

Jerry with cut tree

So far the tree has lights but no other decorations. Pam will take care of finishing the task this coming week.

Beginning – lights on, more to follow

You may have noticed Maxwell Moose (in his Christmas hat) looking in from the top-left corner of the above photo:

Maxwell Moose in holiday garb

We are very pleased with this Scotch Pine tree; the size, shape, and scent are all excellent. It’s been a while since we had a taller tree and it will be interesting to see some of our less-used ornaments on display again. The tree is, of course, fastened to the wall to prevent the cats from toppling it.  (We hope.)

There is an update on a topic mentioned last time; my dental appointment came and went. The tooth that was bothering me – with a “leaking” crown – was too far gone to salvage and had to be extracted. My jaw is very sore and I am popping Tylenol every 6 hours or so. This kind of sucks but things should improve by the end of next week.

Another update – the defective furnace relay has been replaced and the furnace is now working without having to be whacked to shut down the boost fan. Sometimes it’s the small things that matter!

Our Solstice cards have all been mailed to those of you lucky enough to be on our card list this year. The tree is up. Less than two weeks until Winter Solstice!

That’s it for now. Thanks for looking in!

Pam’s Two Cents Worth:

When we first moved to Colorado in the 1970s, we often purchased a national forest tree cutting permit and ventured into the wilds for our Christmas tree.  (Once we topped a tree that was physically longer than the car we were driving.)  Later on, in Wisconsin, tree farm day was a family event when the kiddos were young; we used to cut our tree every year.

This year — the first year of my retirement — I found myself thinking about the tree farm experience again.  The Covered Bridge Tree Farm did not disappoint.  The operation functioned like a well-oiled machine. Trees available to be cut on the acreage were marked with information as to name of conifer, height, and price. I must admit I enjoyed visiting the various animal pens (and saying “hi” to the goats) while Fields supervised the shaking/netting/stashing the tree in the RAV.  (I must observe, though, Christmas trees were much less expensive back in the day.)

What a gift to have time for decorating the tree at leisure.  When I was working, it was all I could do to find time to throw a few ornaments on a tree each December.  This year, I have started going through all the containers of decorations and ornaments; I do believe we will be seeing some items on the tree that have not seen the light of day for decades. Assuming, of course, these items are pet proof.

ChristmasCat (Shutterstock image)

Happy Trails.

Well, not much of significance happened this past week, but here are a few things that occupied our time.

First, Pam is working steadily on our Solstice (as opposed to Christmas) cards this year. We drove to Grand Junction to a hobby store and picked up card supplies last month. Pam’s in full production mode now:

Solstice cards in production

Most cards have already been mailed. This is probably the earliest we’ve mailed cards; Pam’s retirement has its advantages!

Speaking of retirement, Pam received her first retirement pension deposit on Friday. This is a new milestone for her, and will help determine the household budget going forward.

With cold weather here, our furnace started to act up (Murphy’s Law). There’s a relay sticking, causing a small motor to run continuously. (The motor creates a draft when the furnace burner first lights up.) I have a new relay on order; I could not find one locally. Part should be in tomorrow and it will be about a 10 minute job to install it. For now we have to smack the side of the furnace to un-stick the relay to shut off the motor. Ah, well…….

Light snow fell this past week but not enough to cover the roads. High temp yesterday was in the 40s, so sidewalks and drives are clear, but some snow remains in the shadows and on grassy areas. I took the mower deck and bagger off the John Deere tractor and installed the snow blade, wheel weights, and cable chains so the tractor is ready for the snow season. Forecast is for about an inch of snow tonight  and colder temperatures – highs in the low 30s – for the upcoming week. Normal high temps are in the low 40s this time of year.

John Deere set for winter snow plowing

Last Tuesday I had to make an emergency trip to the dentist; the tooth that will need a new crown (and a root canal) was giving me pain. The dentist prescribed some antibiotics and sent me off to see a specialist. The latter will be doing the root canal (if needed) and he determined an older root canal in a nearby tooth would have to be re-done as well. The antibiotics helped reduce the discomfort although I cannot chew on that side of my mouth. I go in this next Thursday, first to the specialist, followed by the dentist, to do the crown prep work. Thursday is not going to be a good day.

(Internet artwork)

In my last post I mentioned my ‘gallery conversion’ project; this is going well with 27 galleries converted so far. I consolidated a few (had 3 Lead King Basins, for example) into single collections so the total number of converted collections will be less than I originally had. There are 17 more galleries to go, enough to keep me busy for the next few weeks.

The rest of today will be quiet; snow is supposed to be coming in later and there are always Solstice card notes to complete. (And whacking the side of the furnace from time to time…)

That’s it for now. Thanks for looking in!

Pam’s Penny:

Always a plus when one’s first electronic pension deposit actually arrives in the account, as scheduled.  Saves having to hassle a clerk somewhere.

Happy Trails.

First of all, we hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. And, if you hit the “Black Friday” sales, we hope you found deals on all your purchases. (We don’t do “Black Friday” ourselves.)

It is with sadness that I compose this post as our foster cat, Solette, had to be euthanized last night. She was suffering from a feline disease called FIP which is untreatable. The symptoms are similar to pneumonia in humans; lungs fill with fluid and eventually cause death. Solette was about 7 months old. Pam is very upset but there is nothing any human could have done to make the situation right.

Foster kitten Solette

Thanksgiving Day itself was pleasant. We joined in with a few neighbors to have a small community lunch. Pam baked an apple and a cherry pie for the event. Several neighbors attended and we met a few new people. The food was good and typical; turkey, bread, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and quite a few deserts were spread out for a help-yourself lunch.

As is our habit, we put up our outdoor Christmas decorations the day after Thanksgiving. (Indoor decoration will come in a few weeks.) We decided that when we move we will replace most, if not all, our decorations as they are getting a bit old (dating from Old Vic in Whitewater). The lights do look good when lit up at night.

Today will be quiet as there is a storm coming in later. I will get out to fill a small grocery list and get gasoline for the car. After that it will be working on the computer and watching some college football.

And I mentioned in a prior post, I am converting my galleries collections into a new format. I have 16 done so far with about 30 more to go. The biggest difference is video presentation; under the old format I could put a video clip directly into the gallery. Now I have to add a separate link and have the video(s) open in a new page. It works and in some ways I like this arrangement but it does make coding the pages a bit more complicated and adds a few more files. In addition, video clips must be in at least two formats, .mp4 and .webm, so they will play on most devices. The old service did this for me; now I have to do this myself. It takes extra time to set up each gallery. This project will continue for a while.

For those who might care, I am using two programs to convert videos and create the web pages: Prism from NCH Software handles the video chores and JuiceBoxBuilder-Pro produces the gallery code. Prism is a free download (for non-commercial use) and will run on both Windows and Macintosh computers. JuiceBoxBuilder-Pro costs about $50.00 for a lifetime license and also runs on Windows and Mac platforms. Adobe Corporation’s Air (also a free download) is required for JuiceBoxBuilder.

In medical news, I went to the dentist last week and found I need a new crown on one tooth (as I had chipped a corner off it) and an existing crown has to be replaced as well. A root canal may also be needed if the tooth under the old crown has deteriorated. The dentist said the crown had been ‘leaking’ and some decay has formed under it. Oh joy. First work will be in early December, second job in January as my dental insurance is based on calendar years. Splitting the work between 2018 and 2019 will save me several hundred dollars of out-of-pocket expense, but I am not looking forward to having to go  in twice.

Other minor stuff: I put the new belts in the washing machine and Pam reports the spin cycle now completely empties the drum of water. I put the new tire on the John Deere tractor; nice to have it ready to go instead of having to add air every time I wanted to use it. (So far I have not removed the mower deck and mounted the snow blade on the JD but will probably do that next weekend.)

Monday it will be back to the usual grind. Right now I need to be off the the grocery store and gas station.

That’s it for now. Thanks for looking in!

Pam’s Two Cents Worth:

Solette is the poster child for what rescue has become in this neighborhood.  What used to be the joy of births and bittersweet goodbyes of successful adoptions has now become rides through the dark to vet services and gruesome deaths.  The local cat population has certainly become inbred, which contributes to the decline in general feline health.  Solette is the fourth kitten I’ve buried this year; in addition. one other adult male was euthanized at the shelter after being diagnosed with feline leukemia.

The sadness takes its toll on me, as does the impact on our household budget.  I daily weigh the dilemma — do I feed the strays and keep them alive only to watch them die of diseases later?  Rescue work is no longer satisfying; not likely I’ll become a hoarder.

Happy Trails.

Our daughter Felicity had a “house sit” in Louisville, a community northwest of Denver. We had arranged to drive over to that part of the state to visit her, stay overnight, then drop Felicity off at the Denver airport the next day so she could catch her flight back to Portland.

The drive over, on Saturday, was uneventful. We met up with Felicity at her house, visited, then went out for dinner at a place called Huckleberry’s. The food was good and the house’s specialty tea was a big hit with Pam. Then we retired back to the house, visited for another few hours, then went to bed.

Sunday morning saw several inches of new snow on the ground. We had expected this storm but had hoped it would arrive later in the day; that was the original forecast. Apparently the storm arrived early!

Jerry and Felicity walking to breakfast in the snow

After breakfast we dropped Felicity off at Denver International Airport and began the westward trip home. Driving through Denver was more than a bit tense, as we saw a few cars spin out and our own tires slipped a few times. Getting up into the foothills and leaving the storm behind seemed to be working, until we exited Eisenhower Tunnel and began the ascent up Vail Pass, which was socked-in with snow. The eastbound lanes (traffic traveling toward Denver) were hard hit, with cars spinning out and stopping traffic.

Eastbound traffic stopped on Vail Pass

A bit further along on Vail Pass, the state police has closed the eastbound lanes, something we had suspected due to a sudden and complete lack of eastbound traffic. What a mess.

Colorado does have a law that requires passenger cars and commercial vehicles to have “adequate snow tires, traction devices, or 4-wheel/all wheel drive” for winter driving. Obviously the passenger cars we saw causing the problems did not have this equipment. Fines for noncompliance can run several hundred dollars. If only one or two cars spin out, the pass gets closed to all traffic, irritating other travelers and causing big headaches for the 18-wheelers.

We ran out from under the storm right about the bottom of Vail Pass. After our wild ride through the snow belt, the rest of the trip home was uneventful.  Arriving home after dark, we unloaded the car and called it a night.

I had Monday off to observe Veteran’s Day but had several projects to work on. First was putting in a temporary repair on the clothes washer; one of two belts had bit the dust, making the machine  inoperative. A trip to the nearest NAPA got me two auto belts, not an exact match but something that would work until I could order new belts through Maytag. The washer works but Pam has to run the spin cycle a couple times to get all the water out of the drum. New Maytag belts will be here next week and I’ll finish the repair then.

Another chore was leaf collection and mulching. I worked on our lawn, including mowing the grass for the last time this year, and a neighbor’s yard as well. At least the weather was decent – sweatshirt temperatures for the most part – and dry, making this job go pretty well.

The Ford F-150 had developed an engine miss so I replaced a fouled spark plug. Truck is currently running fine again. Along those same lines, my John Deere garden tractor had a front tire that decided to give up the ghost. It frequently goes flat in about an hour after I fill it with air, so time to replace it. A new tire was found online for $20.00 with free shipping and the nearest Walmart mounted it for$5.00. As I use the JD for snow plowing in winter, I want the tires to be in good shape.

Holiday Preparations: Thanksgiving is coming up next week. The day after Turkey Day we usually put up our outside Christmas decorations. We’ll be watching the long-term weather forecast, which shows a storm coming in — but — we are still several days away and that may change. Pam is working on this year’s Christmas (actually Solstice) cards, which will be hand-made, similar to what we used to do years ago.

We hope everyone has a good Thanksgiving.

That’s it for now. Thanks for looking in!

Pam’s Two Cents Worth:

While it was great to have a nice, long, face-to-face chat with Felicity into the night hours, I am so done with drives through Colorado mini-blizzards over mountain passes.  Done.

However, I did have both a lovely [Fall-spice-flavored] Chai tea at dinner in Louisville and a Culver’s pumpkin shake on the way home. Simple pleasures.

Happy trails.

Another quiet week, except for the elections. I see Scott Walker is out as Governor of Wisconsin; wonder what changes the new guy will put into place? Maybe he’ll fix the “Scott-holes” (pot holes).

We had planned to visit Felicity, who is in Colorado for a house sit, last weekend but the weather turned bad and we postponed the trip until this next weekend.

True to form, the first major snow of the year caused accidents on I-70 though Glenwood Canyon, closing east- and west-bound lanes. Some of those bridges can get really slick, particularly where the change in elevation causes a transition from wet to snow-packed surfaces. We were better off staying at home last weekend!

Halloween was very low-key this year. We had no trick-or-treaters at all and I saw only one small group going house to house in another part of town. It was cold, granted, but there just didn’t seem to be much interest in trick-or-treating. It was a mid-week school night, and I think the local community center was running the Halloween party.

On the other hand, eggnog is now in our grocery store. The holiday season must be in the air.

There will be a few changes in my galleries and blog posts going forward. The company that I’ve used for several years to host photos and videos just raised their rates astronomically, from $225.00 per year to $1,000.00 per year and I am not going to renew my contract. Instead I am looking at software to create and host slide shows and video files on the server thats hosts this blog. I may have to pay a bit more for additional storage but rather that than pay a ransom.

The home-grown slide shows may not be as slick as the ones created to date; the home-grown shows will have a different (and simpler) look. I’ve started practicing on shows I create at work, which gives me a chance to experiment and learn as I go.

The biggest problem is that I can’t upload any more photos to existing galleries; I am “over limit” for the number of photos and video clips my $225.00 plan will accept. That is why no new images have made their way to, say, The Lot gallery, showing off the work we did this summer.

It will be a bit of effort to convert the existing galleries but, in the end, I will have more control over them and save some money to boot. Sigh. As Anna RoseAnna Danna would say, “It’s always something.”

Locally, our high school ladies soccer team made it to state finals. How do I know? This sign on our local city office:

Sign on city office door

I’ll have to ask around to find out how the team did.

That’s it for now. Thanks for looking in!

Pam’s Penny:

Poor little Solette is having a rough go trying to recuperate from her spay operation. I hate seeing a kitten in discomfort.

I’m “celebrating” a significant birthday, ending with a “5.” I begin my pension through the State of Colorado.

Happy Trails.