What’s the big deal about haircuts?
Before
After
Hardly any difference. Why bother?
I don’t get it
The last thing
Doctors, dentists, mechanics. Two weeks. A full schedule. Blood drawn from both of us this morning, an annual physical for me. Only one more thing to take care of: get a permanent filling put in Judy’s tooth; the tooth that required an emergency root canal. The root canal resulted in a temporary filling. A quick visit to our regular dentist to look things over, do one filling, and we’re done. Turns out that visit this noon was the *next to the last* thing to do. Several old fillings, really old fillings, were wearing out and coming apart. They needed fixing right away, before we’re gone from Colorado for the year. Last thing to do was to go back this afternoon and get several fillings redone all at once. Judy is still sleeping it off.
Trauma
Oil change trauma. An oil change isn’t that big a deal for the Jeep. It’s a much bigger deal for the motorhome. Not only do we have to buy 29 quarts of oil and an air filter that costs $100, we have to give up our house for an entire day. We give up our house and our office all at the same time. We’re left to wander aimlessly in the Jeep. We did manage to occupy ourselves for the day (well, Becky helped). Actually, we got a lot of errands done. We picked up the coach tonight and got it parked back in our spot next to the pond at St Vrain. The oil change only happens once a year. It’s all better now.
Snakes
While we were in Canada, we encountered a snake on the trail; a rare sight, since in that part of Alberta, there is only one endemic snake: the Terrestrial Garter Snake. 
It was perfectly still. We were speculating about whether it was alive or not when Judy surprised me and pulled it by the tail; which surprised the snake, and it moved off into the grass alongside the trail. Last weekend at Pawnee Grasslands we encountered another snake; this one on the road. 
It was perfectly still. We were speculating about whether it was alive or not when Judy surprised me and pulled it by the tail; which surprised the snake, and it moved off into the grass alongside the trail. Last weekend at Pawnee Grasslands we encountered another snake; this one on the road. 
I think it’s a Bullsnake. Judy the Snake Wrangler surprised me again; this time by grabbing the snake by the tail and flinging it off to the side of the road. (I wish I had known she was going to do that. I’d have switched to video mode.) 
Judy was protecting the snake from getting run over. The snake didn’t appreciate the effort, gave a great hiss, and crawled right back onto the road. 
Judy declined to repeat the effort for the video cam. (It would have been a great shrieking hissing clip.)
Pawnee Buttes
http://steveandjudystravelblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/prairie.html Note that the tiny toad in Judy’s hand has spines and a tail. You can click on the picture to enlarge it. It’s a horny toad. Specifically, a Colorado Short-Horned Lizard.