Kids on a hot tin roof

 

Cat Faced Spider

Sawyer found this guy on the side of our utility trailer this afternoon. It appears to be a

Araneus gemmoides- Cat Faced Spider

Osier Station

We took a drive up and over Cumbres Pass to the Colorado side of the line. After 17 miles of dirt road we came to Osier Station, the midway point of the Cumbres and Toltec Scenic Railroad line. The train stops here for lunch and to allow passengers to stretch their legs a little. We continued down into the mouth of Toltec Gorge and crossed the raging Rio de los Piños and let the kids play a little before heading home. There was a rare afternoon train just pulling in to the station as we were leaving.

Osier Station

New (different) baby pictures

This should be considered the "Official" baby album for Alden Faroni. Please disregard and erase from your memory any previous postings on the subject.

I guess there is less bosom on this one......

Some good readin'

You have to look at these police reports from Española, a town about an hour south of us. Amazing!

Brad & Olan's visit

Brad & Olan visited us for the night and most of the day Saturday. We had a really good time and went up to Trujillo Meadows Reservoir and the Rio de los Piños.
Here's some pictures:

Brad & Olan's visit

This is good!

Colorado Alligator Farm

Saturday we took a drive to the Colorado Alligator Farm outside Alamosa. The alligators live in a series of ponds that are fed from 87.5ºF water from a natural hotspring. They also have a bunch of "exotic" animals that people bought as pets and could no longer care for and dropped off. Pretty cool, we even got to hold our own live gator. The kids thought it was really cool.

Horses

We went over to my co-worker's house to check out the horses on Friday night. They were getting some new shoes and then did some roping a little later.

An interesting expedition

Check out this blog, it looks like a really interesting expedition in a remote part of Siberia:
LINK

Summitville, Colorado

We took a drive today up the Conejos Valley to the abandoned mine at Summitville. It was nice to get in the "high country" again in spite of an afternoon thunderstorm. We ended up going down the west side of the Continental Divide and then climbing up over Wolf Creek Pass to Pagosa Springs and then home. It was probably close to a couple hundred miles, most of it on dirt.
We saw a Lynx cross the road about 20 yards in front of us. Amazing!
The kids were most impressed with Summitville and the "Ghost Town" of abandoned miner's cabins.

The bowl trade.

So Paul Olson makes some amazing hand blown glass art:

by paulolson5
I make hand turned wood bowls:

Bowl Trade

I thought it would be cool to work out a trade. Paul finished his in short order and shipped them to us. I, on the other hand, was not so quick. I got one done pretty quickly and started on a second. I wasn't happy with how the second one turned out so started 3 others that I ended up abandoning before finishing. I finally got a couple more I was happy with and will ship them off on Monday.... It's been like 6 months that he's been waiting.....

Paul, I'm done!!!

Finally!

Gambel Oak bowl

A few more Camp pictures

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