Just got back

from a walk in the Garden of the Gods at dusk.  Very serene, quiet pink feather-like clouds and the smell of  musky autumn in the air. (I had a sense that something, not someone, was eyeing us, maybe there was something lurking in the bushes, maybe it was my over-active imagination.)

This morning when I woke I noticed a pink tint to the sky along the tops of the mountains to the west.

Which brings me to my question, What if it's red sky at night, sailor's delight and red sky at morning, sailor take warning, on the same day; can it go both ways?  Can days be both delightful and omninous?

Today was the first seasonal game for the Denver Broncos.  They faltered.  Too little, too late, they were out-played by one set of downs.  McDaniels was there on the side-lines swearing up a storm.  You know I love to swear but there's a time and a place for everything and national TV is no place for it, in my humble opinion.  He doesn't have the class of Mike Shanahan.  The coaching part is up in the air but the morale part is clear to me.

Let's see what this week brings.  I hope it brings you peace and happiness.  C.

I like bacon and Mt. Yale

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The kids and I got a kick from this the other day.  It was graffiti on a hand dryer. (Press button, receive bacon, enjoy bacon) I know, easily entertained.

This here photo is Mount Princeton, I orginally posted it as Mt. Yale But I was lazy I didn't correct it until now.  It was even on the Chaffee County website as Mt. Yale but trust me, this is Princeton.

This is Mt Yale from Cottonwood Pass.  It has a false summit, the trailhead starting from the Denny Creek pulloff.  This is the area we went snowmobiling in this past weekend.  I could kick my ass for not bringing my camera to shoot this peak in the morning amber light.  We went south and west of this Colorado '14er on Cottonwood Pass near Buena Vista, Co.  Up and over to Taylor Park and then north towards Aspen, to Springcreek.  It was about an 80 mile trip and the weather was clear, snowy,white-out,cloudy and that pretty much describes winter the Rockies.  The snow is fair to medium with a lot of off-road sledding ill-advised because you could hit a rock or go into a stream bed pretty easily.  Because we can never have a ride where all goes well, Howard's exhaust almost came off its engine mounts, but after an hour of hillside mechanic work, they got it on with over half the bolts so diverted disaster. He went back to the campers pronto but we finished the ride going maybe an additional 20 miles. We went back to our campers had a snack and then walked around to see what everyone else was doing. I was whooped. There was seven of us camping off the parking lot on a county road. Forest service will not allow camping in the lots which I can understand in the summer cause no one would camp in the campgrounds but in the winter what ta heck? Well we ate, swapped lies, had a few drinks and had some laughs and did everything in our power to stay up past nine. We made it to 9:15.  Back to Mount Yale.  It's the only 14er I've ever started and not finished.  We were about 200 yards off the summit and had to turn back cause of lightning in the area.  I didn't want to, but mama didn't raise no idiots.  (Oh yeah, I had a bad stomach too, a bad thing at 14,000 feet, but that's TMI.

Well no fair on having a New Year attached to a weekend.  Like how can you establish resolutions when time is given to eat and drink in excess?  Plain cruel. After have drank enough red wine to have a pinot-shriaz blend running through my veins and over-eating, I have put the kabosch on it all.  (That was after playing cards Sunday night over at KJ's cause I could never go over there and pick at my food.  Good God that lady can cook. We played some hearts and euchre and talked us up some politics and wondered "what ta hell is this world coming to?" and other rhetoric questions. Solving the world's problems one card game at a time.)

I will not comment anything about the Broncos except what a bunch of fucking shit I witnessed the last half of the season.  I despise  McDaniel's and his petulance, benching players out of spite?

Back to work today after two weeks off.  It was tough. I have shot two free-lance jobs lately so maybe that will take off if I make an effort.  Muster up a good week,eh, back to the grind, I know let's get rich quick.

WTF Denver Broncos

....you heard me.  I knew it. Fucking Broncos can't even pull a home win out of their asses against the worst NFL team, ok second worse team, (forgot about the Rams and the Lions, but will count them each as a half of team).  Ok got that off my chest.  I know I got a big chest too, trust me. That plus the commentators on CBS honestly where do they get these guys....ughhhh.  I heard one of them say it was smart for Orton to take a sack.  The sack was "smart ball control".  Don' get me started.

Anyway had a lovely day yesterday baking cookies with my lovely daughter I'll call her Margina, for now. Despite almost killing each other numerous times we baked a couple dozen each of chocolate peppermint,shortbread and chocolate chip cookies.  We are both 1. Scorpios 2. Rats 3. know everything  4. she doesn't listen, plus 5. doesn't clean up her mess.  Add that up, with some sharp cooking utensils and  an arguing tendency, we are lucky to have survived without a flesh wound anyhow.  But she is lovely and pours me wine, so all is forgiven.

We then watched "He's just not that into you", which had quite the beautiful people ensemble cast including: Jennifer "eyes too close together but who notices cause yer looking at her ass" Aniston, Drew "something tells me she still drinks"Barrymore, Ben "Pannycake head" Affleck, and Scarlett "big lips and tits" Johansen as well as the Mac nerd spokesman whose name I've never fuckin' knew or soon forgot, plus some d-bag who played the cheater with too many teeth in his smile.  So it was entertaining enough and although I'll never watch it again no regrets on the few hours spent on it.

Tonight Survivor finally.  I am excited.  Good luck good lookin' Dr. ( in red below, Mick)

"I know I am an ass but at least I keep it interesting"

                              Russell- the redneck

Woot.  Woot.!!

    

weekend schmeekend

It's over and I sure don't know where the time went.  Had a nice little music night with the neighbors Friday.  Saturday, I helped Mags as she had to jump through the hoops of National Junior Honor Society.  It actually was a good thing to wrap gifts for a donation at Steinmart for a non-profit that gets clothes for people who don't  have a wardrobe to go job hunting ect., but probably not deer hunting (just a guess)  Anyway for the two hours we were there only one lady had us wrap these two huge, ugly animal pillows, very soft and odd-shaped.   A large box would have been the answer, but we were only provided with shirt and jewelry boxes so the lady said she didn't care if they looked like a big ball of gift wrap just as long as she didn't have to do it.  So with hundreds of customers rushing to get the twenty percent off before 11 AM they couldn't be bothered getting their gifts wrapped for charity. One was better than none.

Next, we hit up two bookstores and then we tried to park at the mall and holy shit, no parking spots. People driving around and around just like we were.  Finally I just waited for a car to leave, even though I hate it when people do that.  I had put what seemed to be twenty miles and was getting to the point of homicidal thoughts.  We exchanged two shirts Grandma got Mags for her birthday.  Gone are the days of just picking out shirts for her. She's particular now.  She has a point, they can really ugly up a shirt these days with big letters or cheap China faux fir. Probably cat fur, the horror.  She also got a cute scarf, that's her style now.

Later on we went to a Christmas Party hosted by friends who just got a new kitchen install.  Very nice.  Not finished yet as the guy will hem and haw over the mountain design backsplash he will do over the winter.  They had a room filled with containers of cookies and empty tins.  As you left, the idea was to fill 'er up.  Very cool.  The kids ate 'em up pretty quick.  Just as good not to have them around for me to eat that's for sure. I have to laugh thinking back about playing "Up against the Wall you Redneck Mother" on guitar that night.  I purposely did not bring my guitar for that reason.  Not that I'd play that song, but that I'd play anything.

The biggest disappointment was the Broncos.  They could have won that Indy game Sunday.  They could have but for a series of unfortunate events.  Bad play calling, penalties,blind refs, missed field goal, interception at the goal line.  Peyton Manning was intercepted three times however, and he was flustered. That doesn't happen often.  Woulda, coulda,shoulda.


Today I cleaned and cleaned. I was even sweating. I went through the bookshelves downstairs.  Made me laugh, all the unread self-help books.  No wonder they didn't work, never did get in the board room or a skinny ass.  I guess you have to read them.  Made a fire outside in the pitt and freed myself of twenty pounds of unwanted paper trail.  I feel better.

We just finished dinner and the movie "Snow Falling on Cedars" just came on.  It has been awhile since I read the book so I better put the blogging up for now and pay attention........

I am soooo tired

Mags said she was just "chillin' with her girl" last night when she was simultaneously watching TV, petting the cat, and doing her homework.  She's been down with flu-like symptoms and won the fight enough to go to school today after she's was out Monday.  I made her an appointment to check for strep since she had a small sore throat this am, but no fever.  Anyway if this was the swine flu I am glad its over.  G2 hacked all night so he stayed home and has an appointment with Mags this PM.  You'll notice the fish in the background.  I can see him when I am laying in bed.  I always wondering if he's dead since he goes to a back corner of the tank at night.  I guess that's where he sleeps.  Poor Heckle.  That's his name, I guess I should clean his tank one of these days.
These are the candles I got for a bargain at Bargain Mart, $1 each and worth every penny.  They have been a driving force keeping the Denver Broncos strong when they start to crumble.  Thank you St. Jude, saint for the hopeless, and thank you, Seven African Powers for giving the Broncos spiritual guidance and leading them to a 6-0 season so far.
Here's the crew after the decisive win over Rivers and the hated Chargers last night.  Fun time.  Cwapy bought over salmon he caught fishing in Alaska and we had other good stuff like stuffed zucchini and green chili.  Well my prediction about the Bears was wrong.  Atlanta showed up to play and Cutler threw a couple of his gun slinging interceptions, that, and his teammates were relatively worthless led to a defeat..better luck next time.

I have changed my mind about voting yes on 2C tax increase after talking with Noel and Mark.  Seems the city has gotten themselves into a pickle after giving the USOC 45 million extra dollars than they originally agreed.  Guess what?, they now need 45 million dollars now to keep the city afloat.  Listen city administrators: take a pay cut like we've all been doing.  That's the price to pay in a tough economy and the price to pay to live here and look at these mountains from your beautiful Broadmoor homes or full length windows from the 10th floor of the Plaza of the Rockes penthouse offices.  Sorry.

Other than that have a good one. C.