STRANGE Wildlife

[pics incl]  Who has the “right of way” when you are trying to get into your driveway, you… the owner of said driveway, or the turkeys that are standing there NOT yielding to any “man” known signals?!?  The turkeys, of course.  No pics of them because by the time I realized I was acting like a fool “talking to turkeys like they are human” and needed pictures… they hurried off 🙂

Next on the agenda was crop circles.  Ok, since my yard is full of snow, “snow circles.”  I was very suspicious of the turkeys but they scurried off before I could thoroughly interrogate.


It’s kinda hard to see because the point of the shadows is over the circle.  I tried to take one in the sun later but the sun “slurried” the edges.  So back to my all too perfect circle in the snow….

I asked this bunny and he suspects a teenage girl but the owl in the tree kept saying “WHOOO?!”…  there are those creepy neighbor turkeys (or was it turkey neighbors?! 😉 )  the plot thickens…. I suspect teenage boy.

[NOTE 04/01/16:  Teenage boy fessed up to the perfect “snow circle” using a shovel.  Kinda ingenious!]

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William’s Robotics Made Semi-Finals

[pics incl]  STEM FRC Team Impulse 4418 made it all the way to semi-finals at the competition at DU today.  CONGRATS!!

Jeff txt’d some pictures but I suspect they have some better ones so “this spot reserved” 🙂

  
I’ll see if I can find the link(s) to it as well, I know I saw one on FB, not sure of others.

The layman’s description is robots storming opposing castles by completing different obstacles and then shooting “soft-type basketball things” into the upper windows and scaling the castle walls.

William’s team elected to build a “defensive” robot.  (i.e. that could block the basketball shots)

Needless to say, the play by play txts  from Jeff were intense… guess who wants to “coach basket-robballtics” next year ;-P

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Blizzard 03/23/16

[pics incl]  We are still in Granby but there is a little bit of snow at our house (according to the neighbors 17″)!!  Photos courtesy of Alex Nelson

  
  

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Buttons and Pens

[pics incl]  When playing cards you have a “dealer button” or a button

  
William has officially been banned from “the TAZ World of Pranking” [odds are I won’t remember though] for  using some lame saying called “The Bro Code” ;-P and turning me and Courtney over to the “pen police” [Jeff]  I’m sorry but first of all you cannot expect either of us to NOT attempt to possess a glorious light-up writing device! and secondly, what are the odds that I would have a “similar” blue pen w/ white grippy?  GRRR, we didn’t even get to test our thievery!

  
  
By the way, it’s supposed to blizzard tomorrow.

  
  

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UMMM, Moose

[pix incl]  Yes, MOOSE.  Let me preface this by saying that Ashley has finally been learning to drive.  She started learning on Thursday.  

  
Today is the THIRD day she has EVER driven EVER… she and Jeff are in the car in front, returning from Grand Lake to Granby.  Jeff said he told Ashley he was proud of her for not freaking out an the moose… “Moose?! What moose??!” I stopped to document Ashley’s moose… by sacrificing Courtney.  It was a worthy cause .. I mean, Claudia and William and I all thought (from behind our panes of glass) that sacrificing Courtney (her window was rolled down) so she could document Ashley’s moose, was a worthy cause.

  
  

Clearly we underestimated… Courtney, she won, moose left w/ tail between its legs, looking for Rocky to come beat her up.

  

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Grand Lake 03/20/16

[pics incl]  We stopped in Grand Lake today and took some photos on our favorite boulder.   

 

  
  
  

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Granby 03/19/16

[pics incl]  We arrived at Mountainside today.  I “taught” Claudia to make pie 😉

  

  

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And the Camper is…

[pics incl] …a pop-up camper.  Ok… we got sick of hearing ourselves say “we miss our pop-up camper” so we decided to scratch that itch and see if we really do miss our pop-up camper.  Soooo, THIS pop-up (it’s used) has gotta be close to the biggest one in existence with a slide and hard-sided walls… but it’s a pop-up.  Yet, when it’s made up, it’s bigger than our last travel trailer and MUCH roomier.   No bunk beds though 😉  We’ll keep ya posted on how that goes, or just watch and see if some of the next posts are “and the next camper is…” 🙂

  

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Happy 50th Bday Kevin

[pics incl]  Shirley surprised Kevin for his 50th birthday 🙂  There was LOTS of spectacular food, some “happy birthday” in English and then in Chinese and a failed attempt in Spanish 😉  Some engineering into balancing his THREE birthday cakes so they could be properly lit.  Then, the discussion on how to light them… the lighting… (by the mayor, his sister & nephew and William)… THEN the singing… then the thinking about his wishes because he realized he got three (one for each cake)….. and “please blow out the candles before the cakes turn to wax” 😉  

The elderly man seen in the photo is one of the last surviving Chinese-American WWII heroes (was in Normandy on Dday)

  

 
 
   

  

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Scotty and Jacque Visit 03/11/2016

[pics incl]  Scotty and Jacque are visiting for a few hours (& stay night).  We went to dinner and someone took our group photo.

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National Pancake Day

[pics incl I prefer waffles and since I am in charge of dinner, I made both because Courtney is Courtney…  YES, I can cook bacon!  It’s a well known fact that they pull us all aside  and make sure we all know how to cook bacon… bacon or death.  You can assume anyone living named “bacon” can cook bacon, we are not allowed to give it a bad name 😉  This is Ashley’s, I don’t like fried eggs, I stopped her to have her take a picture before she could take a bite 😉

  

more proof I CAN cook bacon:  http://blog.scottsontherocks.com/blog/2012/09/27/yes-i-can-cook-bacon/

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Cats Like Pistachios?

I dunno if all cats like pistachios, but Peanut does.  Go ahead, ask us how we know this…

“Who’s in the kitchen?” “… … … “”Everyone’s in here mom.” “Well, what’s that noise, pause the tv.”  “… … …” “There’s no noise mom.” “Look, the last time I ‘didn’t hear a noise’ it was raining in the basement.”  I stand up and walk in the kitchen to catch Peanut “red-handly” chomping on his obviously NOT FIRST pistachio, shell and all?!?  That batch went in the trash!

Needless to say, we no longer leave snacks out uncovered in bowls.

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Lunch with Katie 03/02/16

[pics incl]  Katie and I caught up today and I realized as we were leaving that we never took any pictures inside.  Clearly, we are professional “selfie” takers!

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Neuro Appointment 03/02/16

Same meds just adjusting dosages.  Changing one to the extended release to see if that helps me be not so crazy forgetful– 🙂 that was an interesting learning experience while jeff was out of town… I don’t remember it of corse ;-).  been a bit dizzier too so maybe the extender release will help with both

The goal being to maybe GET OFF of some of the meds?  I’m still not really sleeping but at least I’m not always in pain all day every day.  Switching back to the increased dosage for sleep.

Low pressure weather systems seem to be my personal nemesis… I’m a a pretty good barometer (missing Gpa Bacon mercury comments, right about now….)  While we are all still just GUESSING I felt a bit more…. hmmm, what’s the word… “encouraged” maybe, that we might be onto something.  Jeff had some good data points with how the dosages were affecting me mentally so hepfully between the 9000 of us 😉 we can get this figured out.  She seems to be will to play the trial and error game right along with us.  taking notes…..

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previous MRI:  http://blog.scottsontherocks.com/blog/2016/02/03/images-from-mri-010516-status-update/

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Josh’s Day as a Soldier

Joshua got to spend today at Ft. Carson today after Make-A-Wish reached out them:

http://m.army.mil/article/163118/His_wishes__our_honor_

and

http://m.krdo.com/news/colorado-teens-wish-comes-true-at-fort-carson/38180268

Debbie took Josh and William to see Deadpool last week when they didn’t have school.

Make-a-Wish is granting Josh’s wish of sending them to visit NZ too 😉

more Josh:  http://blog.scottsontherocks.com/blog/2015/11/29/josh-and-william-sledding-112915/

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