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Cold November Updates

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We took off about a week from blogging! I think that may be the new record! Anyhow, we have been staying busy, but we also caught some sort of weird bug that put us out for a while. Britton and I both had a fever of about 102 for two or three days in a row. Britton had it first and shared it with me (thanks honey 🙂 ) We had headache, body aches and the general fatigue made it so that neither of us wanted to do much more than sleep and watch movies. (On the positive side, I’ve lost another 4 lbs thanks to no appetite!)

We also got hit with another pretty fast snowstorm and cold weather in general that also made us just want to stay inside and do nothing interesting.


Brrr

We do still continue on with some of our goals to clean out the house and prepare to move. We gave our nice big extra HD TV that had been in the basement guest bedroom to Britton’s sister and we are preparing to install a new sink in one of the bathrooms because the enamel coating has worn off and it is starting to leak a little.

We’ve also looked into the details of taking Kitty with us to Puerto Rico and found out that it will cost $125 (one way) to take him with in the airplane cabin. He requires a really small kennel that can go under the seat, so we will will have to find one. A hard shelled kennel must measure no more than 17.5″ long, 12″ wide and 7.5″ high (doesn’t that seem super short?!). For a soft sided carrier it can be 18″ long, 11″ wide and 11″ high. Anyone know of an airline approved one? We also found out there is no vaccination or vet check requirements, which surprised us.

Another medical student is living with us for the month which has been fun. And we are looking forward to the holidays. This cold weather has us thinking a LOT about PR.
That’s about it in terms of updates. Hope to post again soon!

 

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It’s Back (Snow That Is)

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These past two mornings we’ve awoken to a generous helping of snow covering the neighborhood. At least it has been warming up a little in the afternoons and the roads have been pretty clear, but still…October? At least it is quite pretty. Check out some of the snow scenes we captured.  I can appreciate it a little more now that I know this will be our last winter here.


Pink snowy morning glow out the back door


Snowy blue backyard later that day


Out the front window towards the sunrise. The peach tree is heavy with snow


Because Schnoodle is so old, we have to sometimes carry her into the house. Her fur gets all clumped with snow


We brought her in and she beached out on the towel

Back to scraping the cars again (at least I keep mine in the garage though!)

 

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Fire in Rincon!

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We had just finished paying the bee removal guy and the plumber was almost finished with his work when I saw and smelled some smoke coming from the lower half of the property.

I got up on the deck of the wood house to get a better view and snapped this picture:

So close you could hear the crackling of the fire and flames and see ashes flying thru the air!

Now the way my brain tends to work, I try to figure out how the fire got started and being a problem solver I try to think of how to put it out.   At this point my brain is trying to figure out how a fire way down below could have started….


The canvas the bee guy used in his bee smoker

Being from Colorado when we have fires, they are usually caused by some careless camper that didn’t extinguish their campfire or from hot embers that rise from campfires.  It’s also the dry season here and I’ve noticed a lot of areas around Rincon have gone crunch dry brown.

My initial thought was, “Oh crap, don’t tell me that the bee guy set the property on fire……”.

It was really pretty far away so I was totally over-reacting but still, once that thought had entered my mind it was lodged there for a while.  We set Rincon on fire!  We’ve all seen the news stories in CA when fires start and people’s houses burn down and huge areas are just consumed by flames.

The plumber saw the flames and called the fire department.  They let him know that they had received several calls already, so I wasn’t the only one concerned.

We went to talk to the neighbor.  He informed us that there is a guy who always sets that field on fire to get rid of the Pica Pica (from what we hear Pica Pica is a bean pod looking ‘weed’ that releases a fuzz that makes you itch) …LOL.  So my fears of having indirectly burnt Rincon to the ground were put to ease.   The neighbor let us know that once the fire reaches the trees, it stops.

We went back home and in about 10 minutes as the flames reached the tree line, they stopped, just as the neighbor had said they would.

It’s hard when you’re in a new place and you don’t know what is normal and what isn’t.  It’s a good exercise for my worry side to learn how to relax and go with the flow.


Hibiscus Flower at our Front Gate

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Random Teepee on Poudre Trail

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The other day we took a long walk down the Poudre Trail from 71st Ave past 83rd Ave. It was cold, but sunny, and in our black hoodies and pants and at a brisk pace we stayed fairly ok. When we got to 83rd by the old Hazelton School House which is now being used as the Poudre Learning Center, we went off trail a bit by the pond and happened upon an empty old teepee (or tipi depending on your preference for spelling).


Teepee on the trail- they don’t usually lilt so much though!!

Teepees were the main form of lodging for the nomadic Native Americans/Indians who lived in this area. They mainly hunted the wild buffalo that roamed these areas and moved according to the weather and the food sources in the region. People still find old arrow heads around here in fields from time to time. A reminder of the wilder times only a few hundred years ago.

This teepee is not an authenic tipi, but a reproduction, similar to the teepee displayed at Centennial Village. There was some information inside of it about teepees and the Cottonwood trees of the area. We did notice how much warmer it was inside sheltered from the cold slight wind that day. With a fire in the middle it would have been pretty toasty!

We thought it would be pretty cool to have a teepee for our property in Puerto Rico, or maybe we could go with the thatch huts that the native Tainos used! Could be fun.


Huts that the Tainos used in Puerto Rico (pic taken on our honeymoon)

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