Our camp hosts at the RV Park in Basalt seemed particularly cheerful this year. It didn’t take long for them to confide that a sale was pending. They continued cheerful for the entire month of July. Then the sale was announced in the local paper. The Aspen-Basalt Campground just sold for five point five million. All those years Bonnie and Rich have been working so hard. I wonder if they thought they were running a campground all that time, or realized they were just babysitting land. The last remaining campground in the valley just got sold to the Aspen Ski Company, not as a campground, not as a going concern, but as land the Ski Company can bulldoze to build employee housing. A magpie record this morning. Five of them at our feeder at the same time. And a pack of pinyon jays. For the first time, they stopped at our feeder. First one, then a dozen. Two dozen. Four dozen. That’s never happened before. It will cost us a lot of food if it continues.
Basalt
Nice summer mountain weather. Each day dawns cool and bright. It warms up into the eighties, but there is moisture in the monsoonal flow from the south overhead. The humidity in the air gathers into thunderheads in the afternoon providing cloud cover and afternoon rains. The next day dawns cool and bright again. It’s not just our feathered friends that enjoy our bird feeders.
WHEN YOU NEED TO GET AWAY FOR A VACATION.
Look what the McKees found for us.
Road trip anyone??
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Basalt
Rufous hummingbirds. We got Rufous hummers. They finally arrived a few days ago. Black chinned, broad tailed, and Rufous. And a pack of pinon jays blowing through the camp. Black capped chickadees and mountain chickadees together. Magpies. Lewis’s woodpeckers. Cedar Waxwings. I finally got another flycatcher besides the western wood pewee. Dusky flycatcher. All the swallows, catbirds, black headed grosbeaks, bullocks orioles, goldfinches, American dipper, western tanager, pine siskin, spotted sandpipers, yellow warblers, plumbeous vireo, warbling vireo, white breasted nuthatch. It’s birdy here. Taylor turned fourteen. She has her own cellphone and an ipod. She has arrived.
Key 123
While Judy was at the bank, the helpful young guy there volunteered information (unsolicited) on how to encrypt email. You type key123 into the subject line and it automatically encrypts your mail so it can’t be stolen. We were skeptical. Questions occurred. Like: If we encrypt the email how does the receiving computer know how to unencrypt it? And if the receiving computer knows how to unencrypt it, what’s to stop a thieving computer from unencrypting it? We wondered why our children and children in law, who are so computer literate, never mentioned this to us, so we mentioned it to them. Judy sent an encrypted email to our son in law Brian. If you start at the bottom of this thread and read up, you might be able to follow the exchange (although some of it is encrypted).
From: Brian Alexander [mailto:brianalexander1@earthlink.net]
Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2007 9:05 PM
To: Judy Taylor
Subject: Re: Key 123
!seod ti tub krow dluow ti taht eveileb t’ndid I
!suineg a si yug tahT
🙂
-Brian
Judy Taylor wrote: Hey,Can you read this? Can ya Can ya.Love,YMIL
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