a short discussion

Grandpa: "I'm tired of winter already."

Grandma: "But Dear, it's only October!"

I guess cold, snow and a broken drive shaft will do that to you...

Have a good day.

Back to the park last weekend

So, last weekend, it was back to the park. After feeding the ducks. I did take more pictures than just the feet!

Started out playing by the water....What is it about water that fascinates kids? Unless it's bath water of course!



After digging, and throwing rocks into the lake, they found a tree to climb on. A good tree, it was close to the ground!

The littlest one thought this was lots of fun!









But you can see that Miss M wasn't all that interested in the climbing! But she did sit on the tree with CJ for a picture.



I did get a good picture of her, though.



Got pictures of G sitting on the tree.....



and making like a leopard in the tree.



And, of course, I got one of Granpa laying in the grass. He does that well, sometimes.


I would put up the photos I took after Grandpa got my truck stuck in the snow on Wednesday, but he already posted about that here.

Musings.

Went to the park yesterday after feeding the ducks behind the library (slept too late and weren't ready to go to the zoo until 9:30. Would have put us there with all the other visitors and we like to go early and have the zoo to ourselves).

After watching the kids play for a while, I noticed these:

Big feet:


Middle feet:


Little feet:


Only that's not the way it is. You have to swap middle feet and little feet, because the 2 year old wears a size larger than the 4 year old! He'll be catching up with the big feet pretty soon.

Woweeee!!! Look what you can see !!!

Clyde posted some of his paintings. You can see them
here !!

He did a good job, and now I've got to get going and post some of my stuff. Nothing like a little competition!!

Grey day, grey mood.....

No pictures today. It's a cold, cold grey day here. I woke up to a temp of 13 degrees, and it's only up to 20 degrees right now. The fog here has lifted a little, so the sky is just a blah grey.

The drive to class this morning was quite eventful. First, I skidded pulling into Wayne's to feed his horses. So now Clyde's driving....it's a lot safer that way. (Whole other story why I'm doing the driving right now.) Then, in Monument, guess what? There were only about 3-4 vendors at the farmers market, and the pastry lady from Castle Rock couldn't get here because the the pileup on I-25 at Larkspur. So, McDonald's it was.

In McDonald's we heard about the freeway being closed going north, and that it was closed going south of Colorado Springs. And when we started down to class, there was an accident on the freeway. We got off at Briargate Parkway, went down to Academy and got back on. Ok, not so bad.

Uneventful all the way down to the Bijou exit. Cops in the turn lanes to go east. Bridge closed.
Tow truck manuvering to get a pickup off the bridge. Bus resting on a lamppost. Ok, so we went west, and turned to go down to the Colorado Street bridge. Guess what? Closed.

Now these are the two newest bridges over the freeway to get into downtown. Guess they made them too steep, they collect ice and become major hazards. Had to turn around and go all the way north to Uintah to go UNDER the freeway, then back south to ppcc campus.

After class, still foggy, bridge at Bijou still closed, firetrucks with lights and sirens heading north on the freeway (the direction we needed to go). Went back up to Uintah, turned east, and thru town to go back to Wayne's and feed horses and then home.

The house is cold, the outside is cold, it's snowing a little.....How much grayer can it get??

A second day at the zoo.....

On Sunday, we went to the zoo again. Since we've already paid for as many times as we want to go, it seemed like the right thing to do.

G and M were ready to go:


We saw the birds (this is an african crane) at the giraffe exhibit:


After watching the giraffe stampede (where they let all the giraffes outside) we saw these little creatures (and I have totally forgotten what they are):


Next up were the lions, and rockclimbing outside the lion exhibit:

Then on to the Rocky Mountain Wild exhibit. The mountain lions were being fed in one half of their pen. Food was in feed sacks so they could tear it apart. They have 3 boys and one girl all from the same litter. The boys have been fixed, and the girl is on birthcontrol, but she still attracts the boys from off the mountain:

M standing on the fence out side the lions:

The otters were out swimming, so we had to stop and see them:

Then we got to the grizzly bears. They were out walking around, not swimming like we saw before:

The two of them put on quite a show wrestling:

Then we were done, and left for home:

And this is what I found after we had been home for a couple of hours. He insists that he was reading his book, but I have evidence otherwise:
The book isn't even open!

I guess the grandkids wore him out. Meanwhile, I washed dishes, clothes, and did some other stuff.

WHAT??!!??!?

Where did summer go? It hasn't arrived yet! Oh my, we had spring all of June, July, and August.
It's supposed to be summer now. But no, our forecast is for a chance of snow Monday night. Temps in the high 20s.

Our sunflowers haven't made seeds yet.

We just got the stuff to start painting the trim on the house.

The manure pile isn't cleaned out yet.

The wood isn't split yet.



Oh, well, off to the zoo with G and M. Today's supposed to be really nice!