Steve and Judy's Travels!

Gone from Matt’s house. We’re back at St Vrain State Park. One more week here and we’ll have worn out our welcome though (at the state park, hopefully not at Becky’s). There is a two-week limit each forty-five days at each state park.

Becky is picking Christie and the boys up from the airport tonight, so this week we’ll get to visit with even more family.

Wimbledon starts today (if you have the tennis channel). Network coverage starts on the weekend. We’re working on an A/V upgrade. The Video/DVD player/recorder setup never really worked very well. Couldn’t get it to record something while we weren’t here. We’re getting a DVR satellite box so we’ll have a little more control over what we watch when. Hopefully we can let the DVR just run, and pick the matches we want to watch as we go along. The early matches are interesting because you get a combination of familiar faces and people you would otherwise never see or hear of. We get to see more than the top four players.

Saw a coyote on the trail yesterday. Off on a grassy ridge. He was there for a moment, then gone. There aren’t a lot of different birds here, but there are more magpies than anywhere else we go. We sit outside and have this view through the native grass, pinon pine, juniper, pondersosa pine forest. It’s an open view; plenty of room for the striking black and white magpies to glide back a forth and gather to knurdle at each other. There is a nest in the middle of the small juniper in front of us. More scribbling calls of house wrens here than most places too. I passed a family group next to the trail in the forest; the young ones with their baby faces and tails so short they were almost nonexistent sticking straight up. I got seriously scolded by mom.

This is our first steady stream of hummingbirds this year. They like to fly next to the coach on their way to and from the feeder. It doesn’t matter if we’re outside or even if the awning is out. They buzz right up the length of the coach under the awning, sometimes making us duck. I can’t get past the image of a hummingbird dart stuck in my neck.

It has been a good week here with Matt and his kids. Lots of dinners together.

We’ve recovered from the involuntary email “upgrade”. Still at Chatfield. Still enjoying it. Been working on the website upgrade. New content. Client portals for a secure place to exchange information with clients. Intranet for exchanging information amongst ourselves. Maybe tie in the blog. Great plans. It hasn’t quite come together yet.

Spent the day at the office today getting some computer stuff fixed and having a visit. That was good. Spent the afternoon at Alex’s soccer game for five-year olds. (He’s almost five.)

We have a winner in the “name that grebe contest” and he didn’t even name it. He just suggested we “Take it to the grebeance committee.”

Got an involuntary email upgrade. Now I can send email from this account but can’t receive a thing. If it seems like I’m ignoring anyone……

Will keep you posted.

Steve