No Co immigration:
Near the town of Colona, now called Laporte.
Janis moved in on June, 1844 with his wife First Elk of the Oglala Sioux tribe. He moved out of town in 1878 when the gov’t forced his wife to move to the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. His original homestead cabin was moved to Fort Collins in 1939 and is open to the public. I have passed the cabin hundreds of times and have yet to visit. Maybe next time I’m near the main library I’ll peek in and say hello!
stay dirty, my friends!
Shower Gel AND a towel!
i.e., we are getting rid of some juniper bushes!
It’s the VW Pickup Truck!
Jeannie and I packed the back seat of the VW with juniper bushes that we removed from our back landscape to make room for our next project: A BRAND NEW DECK! So, there are a number of Summer-time projects that are keeping me from updating this blog as much as I used to; I hope to be finished with the deck before the great annual feast of the RAGBRAI! Oh, and it’s nice to see the old VW still out and about on July 1st, 2010.
Happy to see this get into compost
We drove on out to Hageman Earth Cycle to dump the junipers off for composting; never been there before. That place is huge! They can deliver to your door up to 80 cubic yards of mulch at a time!
At Everyday Joe’s Coffee:
There was a benefit to help Ugandan school children
Bloco em Foco provided the entertainment
There was a rumor that the agogo player went wild during his solo!
What a great event! I don’t remember seeing any advertisements for this benefit, but nearly 100 people came to Joe’s to donate money to 360: Help Girl’s Education Come Full Circle.
or maybe ВОЙНЫ И МИРА
Between the towns of Greeley and Windsor is hidden this relic of the cold war. It’s an underground ICBM site that used to hold an atomic weapon!
The 549th
As reported before, the 566th out of Warren AFB was one of the squadrons in charge, but apparently the 549th had some control as well since their patch is painted on the inside wall of the entry way.
The Atlas E
Here’s the truck with the Atlas E going down the street. They would carefully back the truck into the entry way to load the silo. If the command came it would be ready to launch in fifteen minutes.
A Safe Place
The place was well protected and could be used as a fallout shelter! I wonder how many citizens in Greeley or Windsor actually knew it existed? I can remember doing evacuation drills in grade school. We were supposed to go home. To what? Our own fallout shelters?
Fun for the whole family
For a few hours at least. Then what?
Mr. Ambrose
Pete Ambrose is the manager of the area site. He lives in a house built on the grounds and manages the area camp site and gives free tours of the facility. Here he is showing off a personal radiation detector. Pete told us that the farmland just east of the missile site used to be a WWII German POW camp!
Crackers!
Pete and his friends have a collection of cold war items to view. Since there is no real rocket in the gantry or liquid oxygen to play with (You can pick it up with a magnet!) you have things like medical tools and condensed food and this can of crackers. The large box says: CRACKER, SURVIVAL, ALL PURPOSE (CIVIL DEFENSE). They were made by the Sunshine biscuit Company in Elmhurst, Illinois – Near the Keebler Company. There’s a joke in there somewhere!
The Tunnel
There is a tunnel. It’s not very long, but there had to be a way for the missile personnel to get away from the rocket when it fired and still be underground and have control of the rocket.
Control Room
The equipment looks like an early Burroughs Corporation computer and a few analog relay racks with a strip-chart recorder. Note that there was lots of reading material on the left wall.
Some years ago it was revealed that this site used solvents to clean fuel tanks and allowed residual rocket fuel and solvents to flow into the floor drain! Didn’t I say before that this is about a mile away from a water treatment plant near the Poudre river? There is some remediation underway with a proposed plan available for public comment in January 2011. Stay tuned!
A benefit for an Haitian orphanage:
Vicki Pompea entertained the kiddos!
It was a fundraiser called “Hugs for Haiti” at the Catalyst Tap Room.
Thanks to Dawn Markley Webster for getting this whole thing together! You rock!
In Loveland, Colorado, the Sweetheart city:
Valentines Central
You can go to this post office before Valentine’s Day and send a card to your honey. But you gotta be in Loveland to do it and you have to drop it in the special pink letter box or this won’t happen:
A stamp of a little Loveland cowboy cupid and a schmaltzy poem.
…and this cancellation stamp with hearts on it.
OK, that’s cool, I guess. But in Loveland, there’s more:
There are Signs of LOVE within the town!
Jill is a lucky woman!
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LOL!
Cat! Has John seen this?
Apparently it has been a 40 year tradition to hang wooden hearts on the lamp posts around Loveland during the month of February. The Thompson Valley Rotary Club sells the signs which are painted by members of the Thompson Valley High School Honor Society with proceeds going to help various children’s charities.
