Summer brings out a lot more excitement in Colorado (not counting those huge snow storm blizzards). Everything comes alive and we get some pretty crazy weather and fires in the mountains. These last couple of days we’ve had both! We had a huge thunderstorm come through that dropped enough hail on Eaton, a town about 5 miles from here, that some people had to bring out their snow shovels! But here, we just had a cool light show with a little hail and rain.

To the west heading up the mountains towards the Poudre Canyon in Larimer County about 30 miles away from us, there have been some pretty big fires. Right now there is one that has consumed some 5000 acres. Here in Greeley we can see the huge plume of smoke and it leaves an eerie, but beautiful red sunset. While all this weather and natural events keep things exciting, we hope everyone stays safe out there!

Out our back porch…It looks like a cloud, but that’s fire smoke!