Morning Walk

 

 

The Continential Divide and Sugarloaf from Sunshine

Greetings!  We had a sunrise alert this morning.  High clouds to the east gave us a gorgeous sunrise.  Milo and I headed down the driveway and onto the main road toward the school house.  As we rounded the bend and approached the flag pole, Maui and Plato greeted us.  The puppies are getting so big.  All three dogs sat at attention as I raised the flag.  Milo and I continued on our walk.  Maui and Plato stayed at their home.  Milo and I are hearing more birds chirping as we walk.  That is one more sign that spring is just around the corner.

On our return, Bob stopped the school bus and threw Milo a treat.  Bob and I talked about the fire danger.  We (Boulder County) have had three fires in the last three weeks.  Two of them have been in the Sunshine fire district.  The second fire had a certain amount of irony to it.  Our neighbor Rob had just finished mitigating the area around his house.  He thinned out the Ponderosa pines.  He continued by eliminating any branches under five feet.  He gathered all of the cut branches and put them in a "slash" pile.  On a safe burning day (one with moisture on the ground, high humidity, and very little wind) he burnt the slash pile.  Ten days later, the slash pile ignited and started a wild fire.  Because he had mitigated, there was no major damage (other than our phone line). Only the dead grass was burnt and that will be green in a month or so. The irony is that the fire started in the slash pile.

My BIL is returning from Alaska with Milo's mom.  I can not understand why he spends the winter in Alaska and the summer in the lower 48.  Oh well......

A big THANK YOU to Sharon for including me as a pick in her Guest Editors Entry.

While in town on Saturday, I saw a saying I'dlike to share.  "Shoot for the moon, If you miss, you'll still land with thestars."

Smile, David

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