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We have electricity!

Sunday, May 9th, 2021

From the sun!

This may seem strange, but we had 16 photovoltaic panels attached to our roof since January, but they were not connected to our electrical system so they just sat there generating electricity for no good reason. It is assumed that the pandemic caused a shortage in competent workmen to finish the job and there was real fears that the installing company did not follow the city rules. Of course, when the permit was up for renewal, the company sent a crack team to fix what needed to be fixed and now we are currently getting current from the sun. (We don’t know exactly how much energy was a getting because the idiots forgot to attach the WiFi antenna to the WiFi card.

Guernsey State Park

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2020
Davis Bay, I think

And the North Platte River runs through it. We needed a brake from our contagion pod so we went to this park in Wyoming.

View from the “Castle”

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.

Duncan Madog on the Oregon Trail

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.

CORGI TOUR

Saturday, September 28th, 2019
Duncan skeleton with dead rider

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!

CORGI NATIONALS

Sunday, September 15th, 2019

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.

Our new friend from Bhusawa

Sunday, February 17th, 2019

Welcome to our home, Prashant

Prashant in our kitchen making lunch

Prashant will be interning at the Suzanne and Walter Scott, Jr. Bioengineering Building. ” The cornerstone of Colorado State University’s Walter Scott, Jr. College of Engineering, this state of the art, LEED certified building houses CSU research labs, classes, faculty, and staff”.  We had the pleasure of having Prashant stay with us for a week before he moved into an apartment near campus.

Corgi Days

Saturday, September 29th, 2018

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.

Boyd Lake

Wednesday, September 19th, 2018

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.

Duncan at the Beach

Monday, May 21st, 2018

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.

Duncan & hoar frost

Monday, February 19th, 2018

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.

The Big Three have to go (sorry)

Tuesday, December 5th, 2017

The super tall Populus trees on the south-west side of the house:

One of the trees was dead and another was on the way soon

A local tree service parked on the FRCC parking lot and reached over the fence to take down sections of each tree

A nice day to cut these tall trees.

Duncan checks out the logs where squirrels used to run

A similar tree went down next door during some wind gusts and smashed part of a neighbors house so it was only a matter of time that we would experience a similar fate. Strange, I don’t miss these trees as much as I thought I would.