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Becky and Brian

 …are getting a new deck built on the back of their house.    Today the flooring was going on.  Screwless. Not that there aren’t screws, they just aren’t visible.  There are spacers/clamps between each board. When the next board is in place, every screw is pretty much invisible. The little concrete pad right here at the edge is where the water feature is going to go. 
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Colorado

 Another travel day.  Not too far to go though.  All set up in time for a partner’s meeting with Ken at noon.  It went on all afternoon. 2015 summer trip map A nice long visit with Ken.  Dinner with Becky and Brian.  Conner played the saxophone.  Teigan went to be early.  Tony skyped us from Massachusetts. It’s good to be back. 
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Speaking of family

 Bill and Marge.  Family we got to choose. The first long-term friends we made in Colorado in 1968.  They were the first to come see us at the hospital when Becky was born.  Their kids, Donnie and Debbie were about 7 and 9 years old then.  Now Deb has her own kids and grandkids.  Don and Bill have separate farms, but they work together, sharing equipment, fields, and pastures.  We’ve been friends all these years; really more like family. They had a farm outside Broomfield in Colorado back then.  Marge worked in town where she and Judy met.  Now they have a farm outside Wheatland, WY.  And.  Could it be any better?  They have guinea fowl wandering about!  2015 summer trip map 
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I’ve been waking up ridiculously early

 It happened yesterday.  Then again today.  5:55am; why am I awake? Oh.  Wait.  We’re in the Mountain Time Zone now, and I forgot to move the bedroom clock forward an hour.  Nevermind. Another easy day driving; a tailwind making for a quiet ride.  Not even any wind noise in the cabin.  The mystery rattle/clunk long gone; fixed with the installation of new shocks.  Got great fuel mileage; drove two hundred miles and still have four hundred fifty miles left in the tank. No sign of a drought here.  This side of Wyoming looks literally lush.  Stopped for the night at Laramie. 2015 summer trip map