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Autumn Life around the Yard

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I love gardening, so it is sad to see our tomato plants and roses slowly wither away and die. The only plant that is great in the fall are mums, or chrysanthamums (sp). The white chicken is still the only one to lay, but the black one is getting big. She looks like she is about double the size of little miss leghorn. Here are some pictures of the cooling Colorado weather. Britton and I have decided to go to Puerto Rico in January with a closing -or not. We need to get down there, and this weather is ever the convincer.


Cold Dew on the Roses


Another Cold Rose


Leghorn and Kitty at the Back Patio


Schnoodle and the Mums


Close up of one of the mums

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Horsetooth Reservoir

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Britton and I went to Fort Collins last weekend to see a movie because it wasn’t playing in Greeley but we got lost and missed the early showing, so we decided to go up to Horsetooth Reservoir and hike around a little bit. It was beautiful and perfect weather, probably the last nice weather (you might notice no coat on Britton) of the year.


Britton on a rock


Beautiful Vista of the Reservoir

The weather has definitely changed and the temperature has dropped. This weekend we hardly left the house -just for groceries and lunch on Sunday. It’s only about 40 degrees! Kitty kept trying to run into the house and the chickens kept fluffing up their feathers outside Uggh! Times like these remind me how much I want Puerto Rico! We keep checking the temperature differences (40 here, 84 there). Just wait till we get the snow..Brrr.

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Connie Willis Event and New Kress Theatre

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By Cassie
Saturday was a pretty fun day. We had to run a few errands, but then Britton and I went to an event sponsored by the local library district that was promoting Science Fiction in general and the book Fahrenheit 451 in particular. They invited Connie Willis, a local author who has written many sci-fi books and won lots and lots of awards including the Nebula and Hugo Awards, to come and talk about Ray Bradbury’s book as well as science fiction and writing in general. Afterward, they had a book signing and Britton took a few pictures of us.


Connie Willis signing Bellwether
Connie Willis and Me

Later that evening we went out with Melissa and Alan to the new independent movie theatre that just opened downtown. It was pretty fun. We saw the new Woody Allen movie, Vicki and Christina in Barcelona, I think it’s called. They serve alcoholic drinks and dinner, and you can eat dinner during the movie. The movie was so-so, and half the food order took FOREVER to come (I think Melissa’s food finally came about half-way through the movie), but it was still a good time. I hope it is able to stay in business. Small, local businesses have a hard time thriving in downtown Greeley.


All four of us, after

Afterward, we went back over to Melissa and Alan’s place, chatted, drank more beer and watched the new Chris Rock show on HBO. It was a great night.

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