Author: Casey
Smart Elk Don’t Become Food
This year Noah entered the draw for either a deer or an elk tag, and actually received an elk tag. Yay! In Colorado, large game hunting licenses are distributed via a lottery draw, so there’s no guarantee you’ll get one. So you can imagine our excitement, and the tag was for the first season (rifle). […]
It’s that time of year again
Fall entered Colorado, and two week’s later we had our first snow. Yup, it’s that time of year again. The forecast was only for a dusting, maybe we were lucky, on grassy surfaces. As often is the case with Colorado weather forecasts, especially of the white variety, I wasn’t going to hold my breath. However, […]
The Camper’s Inagural Trip
Labor Day weekend equals a prime opportunity to take our camper out on for it’s first foray into the mountains. Since we’re (me more so than Noah) new to camping in Colorado, we have been selecting a different area each time we go camping. In May, we went to Granby. For this trip we went […]
The Pitter Patter of Not So Little Feet
Meet the newest edition to our family: Hurricane! Hurricane, is a purebred pointer puppy we rescued from the local Humane Society. She is rambunctious, full of energy, but has the sweetest disposition.
Sand Creek
You know what’s comforting in Kansas? When a collection of storm chasers are staying at your hotel…and there’s a tornado watch. Thanks, Kansas! Ready to leave tornado alley and return to the sanctuary of our mountainous land, we headed back into Colorado. But before returning home, we made one more stop, in the middle of […]
Fort Larned
Fort Larned was established in 1859 to offer protection to travelers on the Santa Fe Trail from hostile indians. Operation of the Fort ceased in 1878, after travel along the trail was greatly reduced due to the transcontinental railroad and the reduction of indian attacks. Nearby the Fort, we drove to where the Santa Fe […]
A Kansas Day for Logan
Well, hello there, Kansas! We would have had Logan pose in front of this sign, but he was asleep at the time. Bummer. However, he has been such a good sport going along on all of our bus driver field trips, we decided to do something he would particularly enjoy – going to the […]
Farewell Oklahoma!
Dear Oklahoma, Thank you for the wonderful storm free weather and fantastic history lessons. ‘Til we meet again!
A Bombing Memorial
Where were you at 9:02 a.m., the morning of April 19, 1995? Given that in California, that would have been 7:02 a.m., I was probably getting ready for school completely oblivious to what was going on the middle of our nation. However, that fateful morning, a bomb was detonated in front of the Alfred P. […]