Monthly Archives: June 2012

And here we are! Of course, the day we arrived in Seattle, the authorities in Colorado declared that the evacuation in our area was lifted, and people could go back home. We figured that would happen, because that’s the way … Continue reading →

OK, now I’m ready to get off this road trip and settle down somewhere for some quality time with my computer and a beer. Maybe two. Beers, that is. Mary did the math (only needed one finger, and a calculator), … Continue reading →

So now the story has turned into a road trip. Sorry, not the zany fun kind of road trips that Bing Crosby and Bob Hope went on all the time in the movies. Those were cool. Ours never seem to … Continue reading →

At this point we’re coming to the realization that it may be another week or so before we can return to our home. We’ve decided to evacuate again, but only because we both needed some workspace and Starbuck’s wasn’t quite … Continue reading →

Things over the course of the day went from boring, to crappy, to outright terrifying in a few short hours. The weather as previously mentioned has not been helping any with combating the fire. Today, the weather decided to go … Continue reading →

Now we’re seriously getting bored. And uncomfortable, cause it’s like 101 degrees (a new all-time record for Colorado Springs), and we don’t like it. Up at our house, it would be easily 10-15 degrees cooler, and shadier in the trees. … Continue reading →

Okay, so we had to go to Massachusetts for a wedding, and we decided, while we were in the neighborhood you see, to check out some of the sights. Like Boston, and Nantucket, and lobster rolls. Thumbs up on all … Continue reading →

Last night we bugged out, made a run for the hills (well, actually we ran out of the hills), jumped the fence, and went on the lam. In short, we scurried like little yappy dogs with our tails between our … Continue reading →

When we decided to move to Colorado, and not just Colorado, but up in the mountains of Colorado, we realized that there was a not-as-remote-as-we-would-prefer possibility of wildfires. Since we had to contend with wildfires several times while we were … Continue reading →