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Wheatland

  Record high temperatures in Denver yesterday.  102 degrees.  We drove north to Wyoming to visit Bill and Marge.   http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=107013362562471418011.00047964b60d16d130156&z=5   Today’s temperature in Wheatland, 92 degrees.   Here is our St Vrain State Park bird list for last week

Canada Goose
Mallard
American White Pelican
Double-crested Cormorant
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Osprey
Killdeer
Spotted Sandpiper
Ring-billed Gull
Rock Pigeon
Mourning Dove
Great Horned Owl
Western Kingbird
Eastern Kingbird
Horned Lark
Cliff Swallow
Barn Swallow
House Wren
American Robin
Yellow Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Red-winged Blackbird
Western Meadowlark
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
Bullock’s Oriole
American Goldfinch

   

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It’s a busy time

When we’re here in Colorado. Kids. Grandkids. Doctors. Dentist. Work. Trampoline. Becky and Brian got an above ground swimming pool. Christie, Kyle, and Cameron stayed a few extra days after the reunion.

We saw the Cardiologist for our follow-up checkup. We’re released from all restrictions. A perfectly positive outcome. Then, our annual checkup with the Optometrist. Annie went in with us and entertained them.

John the Hydrohot guy came by and gave our hot water and furnace system its annual service. Richard the mobile repair guy knocked a few items off our repair list for us.

Osprey.

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It’s all over now

  Everyone went their way this morning.   While we were at the reunion, I was taking the medicine, Effient, I was supposed to take for my heart.  It was awful.  Three days of side-effects and I knew I was not going to be able to survive that medicine for an entire year.  We called the cardiologist and got switched to Plavix.  I’m not a fan of Plavix, but two days into it and life is considerably better.   On the way back over Berthoud Pass, we stopped for lunch, got out, and walked around.  There is a Continental Divide trail that starts in New Mexico and goes north through Colorado, Wyoming, Idaho, and Montana.  It crosses the road at Berthoud Pass.  We walked on it a little and it felt good.  Maybe I should hike the Continental Divide Trail.  For now, I’ll continue to take it easy on exercise until the femoral artery finishes healing up.   The bird list from Snow Mountain Ranch.

Mallard
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture
Red-tailed Hawk
Killdeer
Broad-tailed Hummingbird
Rufous Hummingbird
Northern Flicker
Black-billed Magpie
American Crow
Tree Swallow
Violet-green Swallow
Cliff Swallow
Mountain Bluebird
American Robin
Song Sparrow
Lincoln’s Sparrow
White-crowned Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
Brown-headed Cowbird
Pine Siskin