Can’t Wait for Fall Weather; Anticipating What Old Man Winter Shall Bring
A little over four months of full-time living in my 9.1-meter Airstream International. This has been a wild Spring/Summer for Colorado weather – an unusually hot and early Spring and a long, hot (many triple-digit Fahrenheit days / high 30s C.) and bone dry Summer. However, two weeks left until the Fall Solstice – temps are already cooling off nicely and I am giving a lot of thought to winterization of Ms. Bertha (more about this in an upcoming post(s). The Farmers Almanac says that in the little spot of this beautiful state that I occupy, Winter days will be above normal and precipitation will be below normal (but I will not be lulled into a false sense of well-being!). While temps have still been high over the past fortnight since I returned from working in Alaska, it is beginning to cool off nicely in the evenings with many spectacular sunsets. I am truly loving sitting under my main awning, reading, having a cocktail, firing up the barbie, chit-chatting with my friendly neighbors, and watching the evening colorization of the Front Range skyline. I intend to spend as much time as I can over the next month outside after work and weekends – night time is falling noticeably earlier every week.
What a dang great end to the week – terrific weather and buena productividad en la oficina y éxitos! Thursday, late morning at work attended a presentation on the Fed Center’s recycling program – Yawn, a lot of you might say, but NO, fascinating state-of-the-art eco-cycling, single-stream concepts of ZERO waste. I especially liked the techniques employed for hard to recycle materials, NAKED packaging, and a host of other Green initiatives. Boo-yah – would not expect anything less from this great state!
Lunch taken at the Fed Center’s farmer’s market – with a yummy egg, green chili, chorizo burrito hand made by my amigo Ramon. I took time to talk to a lovely gal who made the totally delicious Vegan sweets basket I won at last week’s market (Le Blossoms, Highlands Ranch, Colorado). My treats included handmade (in a home kitchen), organic sea salt caramels, toffee brownies, caramel popcorn, Vegan Snickerdoodle cookies, green tea cookies, and more!!! I told her I loved the product – implying that I ate most of the big basket, but in reality have (mostly) saved it for my wife’s next visitation.
Vegan and organic “sweets” basket from Le Blossoms, Highlands Ranch, Colorado.
The Chinese Buffalo 