Becky and Brian’s House

  It has fancy things on the roof. Spring and Fall they produce enough electricity to run their electric meter backwards during the day.  Overnight they use electricity, but on average they produce 100% of what they need.  Summer and Winter they use more than they produce, so overall for the year they make about 80 % of their own electricity.    In the back yard they have all the raspberries and concord grapes they can use for the table, and for homemade jelly and jam. I waited too late in the season to take pictures of the fruit.  It’s almost all been put up by now. Puff is alive and well in the back yard. And turtle cream pie. It’s a good place to be. 

A change in the weather

 It was 80 degrees and calm today when I left Denver this afternoon.  35 miles later, at St Vrain State Park outside Longmont it was 60 degrees and windy.  I think I drove through a front.  The temperature continues to fall.  Tonight’s low is projected to be 32 degrees. We didn’t get out of here before cold weather hit.  

Eyeball update

 Did the one-week follow-up today.  The left eye was 20/40 before the surgery.  Now, with the new lens, it’s 20/40.  It didn’t get better, but it was not going to stay like it was.  It was fading fast. Also, once it finishes settling down, (in a month) it can easily be corrected to 20/20 with eyeglasses or Lasik.  With the cataract intact, that was not a possibility. Meanwhile, I’m still adjusting.  My brain doesn’t always like the signals my eyes are sending it yet, but most of the double vision from the surgery has gone away.