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Cheerful Story, for a Change

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Clue

Someone may own a dog.

A sliver of sunshine? Electricity.

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The City of Greeley is purple (Teachers College, aka UNC) and the county seat of Weld County which went 73% for Trump. From the internet.

Colorado has the eighth- largest natural gas reserves in the United States. Colorado has the eighth-largest natural gas reserves of any state, accounting for almost 4% of the U.S. total. It is also the eighth-largest natural gas-producing state in the nation.

Weld County, north of Denver, was the leading county for natural gas production, accounting for nearly half of the state's natural gas production in 2019. 

Will the City Council step up? Footnote. 17,000 wells exist in Weld County. Goggle Earth 40°22’49.76”  104°20’22.57”

Not Good? Electricity

Now we have another green boondoggle in the works, a huge solar energy project.

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The local residents oppose the project for two main reasons. Who gets the output? That question isn’t being answered. Suspicious minds are saying Boulder County. Second reason is the physical location. See the above coordinates for sites already chopped up. Not disturbing unspoiled land plus good access roads are already in place makes more sense and there are very few homes in that area.

Shaving

My beard is tough and my skin thin. Blood thinner medication doesn’t help. I’ve been using this for a few weeks and it is the best product, for me, that I have ever used. I buy it locally. Amazon shows it but not in stock.

“Settled Science” debunked

This is, IMO, the way science should work.

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Oh no! Is the Gravy Train running dry? 

Once again, Boulder.

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Science benefiting Bill Gates?

Who has been buying up farmland? The ‘elites’ and China.

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What this report doesn’t mention is the aquifers are being depleted. Prediction: When the water is gone the ‘investors’ will move on and leave a desert behind them.

Inflation

The last time I bought one of these it was under $2. This one, $5, after rounding up for a charity donation (.09).

Dining out? There is this little tidbit.

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Nothing is immune. Our little group supports the VFW Sunday breakfast whose profits benefit disabled veterans. During the Xiden disaster, the price has gone up $2.

Recently my buddy Santa Claus and I had breakfast at a cafe serving the stockyards. They serve a huge breakfast but I dropped $40 with a tip.

Shucks, Just a Land Mine

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The land was a ranch owned by Frank and Pauline Byers. They were given a month to vacate, in August. They waited ten years to be paid for their land.

Another day, another disaster

I wish. With our current crop of office holders, both state and federal, it is another day, many disasters.

As always, YMMV

North Park Assignment

                40°57’26.05”N 106°15’28.85”W  Elev 9;093

                To 40°26’59.83”N 106°12’17.63”W Elev 8,865

 

My client wanted me to do an assignment in Walden, CO that they were willing to pay for 124 miles automobile expense. I declined, citing the route was up and down slot canyons and a high mountain pass. Further, I said when I go to that town I go by way of Laramie, WY and the route is 161 miles (which is also 20 minutes faster, driving time).

They then asked me if I would do the assignment if they paid me for 161 miles. I said, “yes”. Much to my surprise, I was given the assignment.

My acceptance was along the lines of, “Shucks, I thought your supervisor would say, “No”. Now I’m stuck doing it. Per feedback, that caused much laughter in their office.

Friday I did the assignment. Luckily, I was able to do two other assignments on the return trip for a total distance of 350 miles. A profitable day.

North Park was formed by an ice dam several thousand years ago and faint outlines of the ancient shoreline can still be seen. The waters drain into the North Platte River near Saratoga, WY.

ATTN: “Earth Guardians

Graze it, log it, or watch it burn.

Cute

Walden

A small town that somehow survives on tourists, hunters, logging, oil drilling, local ranchers and isolation from any big towns.

The local rodeo has taken place during a snow storm.

I took some time to pay my respects to maternal relatives resting here.

In my youth I spent many summers working relative’s hay fields.

Wyoming Gas Price

Gives firearms owners a bad name – Jerks!

Guts and Determination

A branch railroad  connecting to the Union Pacific mainline in Wyoming operated here for almost one hundred years. Today we can admire the grit of those railroaders. To them it was probably just a job of work coping with blizzards, sub zero temperatures  and rock slides.

Fall Colors

This doesn’t look like a great year for fall colors. Most of the aspen have lost their leaves and the cottonwoods aren’t much.

US 287

Transitioning from Wyoming into Colorado.

Proud Grandfather

From Facebook

Cadet LCDR White and I attended the annual Military Officer Association of America dinner tonight at the Piedmont club in Spartanburg, SC.

Cadet White gave an awesome 5 minute speech on the unit and her plans for the future. Cadet White gave a Very Impressive speech and the audience loved her.

Great Job CO !!!

Senior this year and an honor student since 1^st Grade. She is in the marching band, too. Her older brother is in the South Carolina National Guard as a 5^th generation soldier. Younger brother is now in the marching band but is, alas, far from honor student status. He is just a good hearted kid and that is ok with me.

Camp Hale

https://www.vaildaily.com/news/biden-designates-camp-hale-continental-divide-national-monument-preserving-history-and-conserving-precious-landscapes/

Last Wednesday FJB locked up 53,804 acres of public land with no regard for existing water rights, grazing permits, or public access to public lands. Since the US Government stole the land from ranchers Frank and Pauline Byers one could say nothing has changed.

Where was someone with a 81mm mortar?  

As always, YMMV