Thought for the day.

Raining today. Good day to plunk my butt and play computer games. I downloaded a game called "Around the world in 80 days ". Just finished the 80th day and found a supprise at the end. Won't tell you what it is, you will just have to do the game and find out what it is. You can download games from this site free of charge and they are complete games. www.myrealgames.com

Granny

Another "Am I a poet and didn't know it".

Like his Mother used to do.

He didn't like my casserole,
He didn't like my cake.
My bisquits weren't soft ,
The way his Mother used to bake.

I didn't perk the coffee right,
He didn't like my stew.
I couldn't even iron his shirts,
like his Mother used to do.

I wondered why we married,
It's a mystery to me.
He was looking for the girl,
Next door, like Mother used to be.

I pondered for an answer,
I was searching for a clue.
Then I got mad and,
Smacked him, like Mother used to do.


Granny

Busy day

Well this was just about it. I started out with good intentions. Phillip decided to take a day off on his own and so I decided to try and bring some organized chaos to the rock shop since we have some people from Canada coming down on the 24th. There are so many rocks, boxes, equipment and stuff to move I got discouraged right away. I did do some bench cleaning and putting things back where they belong. Phillip can always use things but never seems to get finished enough to put things away again. Anyway I closed up the shop and went in to get some lunch. Donna called and after talking to her I just said to hell with it.

Phillip had a good day though. He hiked into a place and started to find fossils. Some large pieces of bones turned to rock. No teeth but this is an area where they did a mastadon dig while I was staying at Stanton. I would like to get in and do some looking too but Phillip says it's too far for me to walk in, look and walk out of. You know him and his long legs, he can cover the ground fast. He also found a broken spearpoint and a couple of broken arrowheads and one good one. Damn kid!

When I went to the mastadon dig I met a kid who had found a big tooth in a wash a few miles away. He wanted to talk to the forest service people there and see if he couldn't get it identified. A teacher from the Prescott college told him not to let the forest people even see the tooth or they would take it away from him. Told him to bring it to the college and they would get it identified for him. Turns out it was a rhino tooth. He found it in the main river channel and didn't know where it came from.

Phillip may have stumbled onto the site it came from. He plans to look more before he tells anyone about where it is. I suppose he will want to get back to it soon. He said he saw footprints that must have been from a hunter. They never crossed the fence like he did, so the other person probable never went into the area if he had to cross fences. Phillip said there was lots of elk sign in the area but I don't think elk season is open now. Just deer, pigs, and birds. Phillp said up at the head of the wash was a spring with a trickle of water and that's where the indian encampment was.

Suposed to rain tomorrow. Who knows. Monday too. We need the rain but not the mud that comes with a lot of rain. If it rains maybe we can get the shop finally cleaned out. Maybe?

Weekend trip

Steph came down for a visit the weekend before Halloween so we could take a trip to Glenwood Springs for their "Ghost Walk Tour" Check out the link below

Glenwood Springs Ghost Walk

It's pretty cool, we went two years ago and had a blast. The "Doc Holliday" ghost is pretty good. I'd say he does a better job than Dennis Quaid in the movie "Wyatt Earp". Anyway it is a lot of fun and if your ever rolling through G. Springs in October it is worth the stop and $15. I have to say it is also a bit creepy (appropriate for Halloween I guess) that there are actors pretending to be the very people that they are standing on. Kinda freaky.

Here is a picture of the old train depot right across where we stayed. It still functions as an Amtrak station, so not only is it historical but it still functions as a depot for folks traveling by rail.

G. Springs is laid out kind of weird. There is a downtown along the south bank of the Colorado River (shown below) but the the hot springs and historic Hotel Colorado are on the north bank and that area also has kind of a "downtown" feel to it as well. I guess the city planners thought that these two areas should be connected in a pedestrian friendly way, so there is a foot bridge you can take across the river and take pictures.

The first day we soaked in the hot springs which was pretty cool. Not as neat as some of the places I've hiked into but there is something to be said for having lots of room and being able to shower afterwards. [Side note: a buddy of mine and I hiked to Bagby hot springs near Mt. Hood Oregon about 15 years ago. When we got there we found the "hot springs" to be about the size of three bathtubs which were jam packed shoulder to shoulder with European folks. That was a little too close for comfort for me, especially since the youngest of them was probably 60 and half of them didn't have clothes on. Needless to say we turned around and hiked back to the truck without taking a dip.] So anyway these hot springs are not the 'great outdoors' but the pool was huge and you could wade around in it. The pool is 3 feet on one end and about 5 on the other so you can stand up if you get too hot. It's heated from geothermal water and regulated with filtered water from the Colorado so you don't cook. The next day was kind of a chilly morning so I walked over to see the steam come out of the pool.

Steph had never been inside a cave before so we thought a cave tour would be neat. We rode up to to the cave entrance on a gondola. Here is a view of the Colorado River valley from the window of the 'box on cables'.

Steph has been in mines before so this was kind of a treat because unlike a mine that's chiseled out of rock, caves have all kinds of cool stalactites and stalagmites. On the cave tour they had an observation deck that over looked a pretty neat view of the valley.

Here's a view from inside the cave. Steph thought this was pretty cool. I thought it was pretty neat but said to Steph, "if you think this is cool we should go to Lewis and Clark caverns, that is super awesome!"

We took the long way home. I've driven I-70 so many times it is kind of a boring route. So I suggested we take a detour from Aspen to Leadville. I snapped this picture along the way.

It worked out for the best anyway because when we left Leadville and were dropping down off the hill toward Copper and I-70 we noticed a ton of traffic heading south off of I-70. We thought "why the heck are so many people heading to Leadville on a Sunday night?" Well it turns out that just outside Vail there was a nasty semi-truck accident that dumped something like 3,000 gallons of methanol based nastiness and they had shut down a section of I-70. This stuff was flammable (and possibly explosive) CDTO was redirecting traffic off of the interstate. So had we taken I-70 we would have been sent on a detour anyway. Funny how things work out sometimes.

Who'd a thunk it?

Never expected to see bear tracks down here in the lowlands. Maybe up higher in the mountains. Anyway Phillip ran into bear tracks up higher one time but didn't have the camera with him that time. We went down to the river and since it was still cool in the morning, Phillip decided to take a walk up a wash he hadn't been up before, looking for rocks and arrowheads. Came across these in the wash. Makes one wonder just what they have to eat down here. I guess lizzards, snakes,birds and eggs, cactus fruits, acorns for a start. Maybe even raid the vineyards on the bench if they could scale the 6 foot chainlink fence. He might even find a beehive up in the cavities in the claustic flow that is all over in the area. Who knows? Anyway hope we never meet up with one face to face.

Still hottish down here but cooling a bit now. Leaves are starting to turn, even down at the river.

Granny

My sentiments exactly.

Something Good

Date: Sunday, September 25, 2011, 10:23 "This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind... let it be something good." __._,_.___