And the North Platte River runs through it. We needed a brake from our contagion pod so we went to this park in Wyoming.
This was a very nice state park, and the best part was that there were very few people in the park. We think that the park was recently opened so there were very few camping reservations made this week.
In the town of Guernsey near the park there are the deep wagon ruts where practically every wagon from here to California passed through this point.
The Tour de Corgi in Fort Collins yet again. This was Duncan’s 5th run at the tour and he had a great time seeing all the corgis (maybe more than 500 parading through town) . Some corgis came from as far as Seattle WA!
Somehow on a trip to Chicago, we saw some corgis at a rest stop in Nebraska. After talking to the corgi owners, we learned that there was something called the Pembroke Welsh Corgi Nationals and it was in Illinois. Better yet, in Wisconsin near the Illinois state line, the national herding contest was going on a week before the big corgi meeting so we went to observe the corgis.
Sort of
The Corgis came out
Most of them behaved
Except for Duncan Madog who has become moody lately. He was dressed as Waldo as in “Where’s Waldo” fame. Note his picture is not here.
On the last day for this year:
Jeanne and Duncan Madog take a boat ride on the lake
Beached Boat
We couldn’t help them; If we came close, we may have been stuck. We told the shore patrol about it and maybe they are free. I don’t know.
Now that the path from FoCo to Loveland is complete, we can check out the Seven Lakes area by bike:
Duncan in his little cart
This is extra fun for Duncan because there is lots to smell and areas to pee. I’m sure the Loveland Park District imagined what it might be like without a Santa Monica Pier or fitness gurus lying about.
The conditions were just right in the park to create these ice crystal structures:
It’s called “Hoar Frost”
I was going to call them ice dendrites but when I checked on Google it appears that ice dendrites are a bit different than hoar frost. Only the trees in the center of the park had these formations. No trees near the houses or roads had them. Micro climate.
Corgi Stink Eye
Not quite, but Duncan does not do stink eye, at least when a camera is pointing at him
The last of the Corgi Chow
Probably would not matter if the bag had a picture of a corgi on it. Corgi eats anything and everything.
People with their corgis. Duncan was there, but he was not being very photogenic today.
The BIG CAN OF SOUP IS STILL THERE:
With Duncan Madog
Remember back in 2009, in the old blog there was this soup can at the UCA? Well, it’s still there. Today however, I somehow made a connection that I had forgotten all these years. It seems the Campbell Soup Company was instrumental in setting my career path toward a future in robotics, if a spectacular short future at that, but none the less, the deed was done. Maybe someday I will tell you about it.
Duncan and this year’s TREE
Got this tree off the Bath Nursery Lot during an actual non-freezing, non-snowing afternoon. The tree looks artificial it is so nicely shaped; I think we were lucky this year!