Scenes from my trip to work

Here is our house. I need to shovel a bit when I get home tonight.






Here is my favorite tree that I pass every day on my way to work. It sits right on the Continental Divide.








There are a couple cow elk in this one, can you find them? Not the best picture, sorry.

Fantastic TERRA image

Here is an amazing (to me) image from the TERRA satellite of the Lena River in south-central Russia.
To view a larger version (4 mb) click here.

I love hockey

It has to be the best sport ever invented.

The next time you are flying and get seated next to an annoying person who just won't stop talking about their grandchildren and their condo in Del Boca Vista, pull out your laptop and click this handy link: HERE

Buprestis aurulenta

I was stacking wood on the porch on Saturday and this guy was in the middle of the wood pile. I think it is a Buprestis aurulenta, wood boring beetle. It might be my new favorite beetle, replacing the Tiger beetle.

Can't Sleep? Try this.

I don't really have this problem.... when my head hits the pillow, I'm gone. But, in the interest of science, read this: Sleepy time

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Family Photo

Here's one from White Sands National Monument

Nice kitty

A hunter brought in 2 mountain lions yesterday to Game & Fish just as I happened to be going by. Here is the smaller one.
(Stuart Perea photo)


Lionel, on the right, is about 6'5"....
These are big cats!

Tons of Mooola!

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Something inspirational.

After a day of sorrow, it was fun to look at this:
Clicky clicky

A moment of silence...

And now, let us pause for a brief moment of silence while we contemplate what a weenie Peyton Manning is. GO Bears!

Q: How do you keep the Colts out of your front yard?
A: Put up a goal post. HAAAAA

A Cape Buffalo

Mason's latest work

It could be a good spring after all.

Here it is, January 19th and the prospect of a good spring run-off is looking better and better. We typically get most of our snowfall in April and things are looking up.

Of course, we need a lot more snow for THIS kind of happy times:

I guess what started me thinking of this was our trip to Durango this morning. I had a "follow up" visit with my surgeon to see how things were progressing. We stopped in Pagosa Springs on the way so Mason could go to the clinic to get checked out. He has been coughing a lot and running a fever at night. The did an x-ray and discovered pneumonia in his lung so he is on antibiotics for a while. We progressed on to Durango and I had a 3 minute meeting with the surgeon in which he pulled off the bandage, grabbed the tail end of my stitches, and pulled the whole thing out like he was unzipping a grain bag. Pretty cool. A two hour drive for a 2 minute procedure... (and who knows what that cost). Anyway, I stopped at 4 Corners Riversports and picked up my dry top (the very one in the picture above) since they had replaced the gaskets for me. I started looking at new boats and getting a little curious about some that were 40% off. Unfortunately, Sara and the kids were waiting in the van so that was the end of that fantasy....

A few more pictures

Here's the family descending into the entrance of Carlsbad Caverns. Really cool!Here's the kids sitting under a cool tree on a little hike we took in Texas (south of Carlsbad Caverns)
Another one from White Sands
The kids next to a stalagmite in Carlsbad.

Just adding a few pictures, now that I can.

Here is some sand covering a yucca down in White Sands National Monument. We went down there a few weeks ago with mom and dad. Totally cool place, we need to go back.

Snow, and lots of it

It started snowing on Thursday and kept on snowing until Sunday. We got about 2 feet out of the whole thing. The kids really wanted a snow cave (after I said it might be possible to make one) So we made a couple on Sunday. It took about a half hour before Mason smashed a hole in the roof and then it turned into a "snow room" rather than a cave...

Some news....

It appears that this second version is actually working. So here we go.
A week ago, I woke up in the middle of the night with a really bad pain in my stomach. I spent every minute from 3am until daylight writhing on the floor/bed in pain. Tuesday morning Sara got me an appointment at the clinic in Pagosa Springs and off we went. They drew blood and found an elevated white blood cell count and sent me off to Durango to get a CT scan. The scan confirmed appendicitis so out it came. I spent the night in the hospital and came home Wednesday. Scott and Holly Simmons really helped us out and watched the kids while I was under the knife and Sara spent the night at their house.