August Photo Dump

 IT'S SEPTEMBER - MY FAVORITE MONTH OF THE YEAR!  So time to wrap up August!

This little bear has made the rounds this summer - here he is over by the mailboxes, but loves to hang out on our neighbors' deck!!

We got a new hot tub cover!!  FINALLY!!!  Our old one was just getting to be ridiculously heavy and not doing its' job - it seemed to take forever to finally get one ordered and then to receive it 6 weeks later!  But it is SO NICE and well worth the money!

I love watching the little fawns walk by - they are hard to catch on a photo though!

August is peach season - Palisade peaches  - and they were extra good this year!  I froze about 8 bags for peach crisp and we ate a lot!!  It was an excellent year for them along with the Olathe sweet corn and the Rocky Ford cantaloupe!

Glenn is tackling redoing the cement out front and the borders where the solar lights are - for some reason, most of it cracked and crumbled and it really did look bad!  It's a LONG process though - hard, heavy work mixing the cement himself AND almost 2 weeks of daily rain put a huge damper in the process!  He is hoping to finish up this week!

The Smiths invitied us over for dinner one evening - Hez made shrimp scampi for us since he found out it was my favorite!  He IS an excellent cook!

As I was sitting on the front porch, I noticed this spider - and what a beautiful web he had - just had to take a photo!

Glenn's flowers on the front porch look nice and healthy this year!

We went to the Springs one day and I believe this person just didn't park correctly!!  HA!

Gary and Evan went motorcycle riding on Labor Day - they stopped over at the Smiths for dinner and then came over, along with Hez, for dessert and lots of talking!!  We were so glad they came!

And that's a wrap for August!!  

Coffee Tasting

 Beth and I usually go out for coffee at least once a month - and because she's outside of Divide we end up going to Lake George OR Dawn of Hope which is by our place.  But we wanted to head to the cemetery to see Arlyne's headstone so it was Woodland Park this time!

Just inside of town my tire light came on and the one tire pressure wouldn't show so we pulled into Big O and a guy checked the tire, added just a little bit of air and we were on our way!  I was glad it wasn't a tire problem again.....

Arlyne's headstone is absolutely beautiful!

We had heard there was a new coffee place in town - but also read it was a "European" type coffee place so they didn't have the lattes and cappuccinos, etc.  But we're adventurous so decided to stop in and see what it was like!

CUTE PLACE!  And the 2 guys working there were nice as can be - they started telling us all about their coffee that they roast there and asked if we would do a free coffee tasting to see which one we liked!  Of course!

We tried 3 different kinds and liked the last one best, which was from Costa Rica - that brought back memories of when Glenn and I were there with Cindy and Rene and we did a coffee tour and tasting!

Even though we didn't end up buying coffee there, it was a fun experience and we will go back to just drink a regular cup of coffee with great looking cookies that were home baked!

We walked on down to the other coffee place and had our coffee along with free donuts!!  YAY!

And just had to take pictures beside these beautiful flowers that grace main street!

Camping at Poncha Springs

 Time to camp again - YAY!  I told Glenn to pick a spot so he chose past Poncha Springs to a place we've camped several times!  It's a great spot because there's a lot of ATVing of different routes to do!

We left early on the Tuesday of Labor Day Weekend - hoping to spend 3 nights and get home before the horrible traffic would start on Friday - but did end up only spending 2 nights, although we did ATV on Thursday before heading home!

Every time we drive past this hardware store at the light at Poncha Springs, I always love to see all the colors of chairs they have setting out!  This time I snapped a picture!

There were a LOT of campers surprisingly enough - but I do believe some of them were just brought out and set up with a couple of chairs outside, all ready for the Labor Day Weekend because they looked deserted!   As we all know here in Colorado, it's one of the MAJOR camping weekends and even though it's wilderness camping, there are only SO many spots!

We found a spot - it's not my favorite one which is on top of a hill, BUT there was a NO CAMPFIRE in that section and Glenn wanted to be on this particular road which was in another national forest that DIDN'T have a campfire ban!  We were lucky to grab it!

It started raining about the time we got set up, so Glenn napped and I read and then we went for a ride before dinner - still cool and rainy looking out!

It poured hard during the night - but we woke up to sunshine and had a full day planned to ATV!  We headed over to Marshall Pass, one of my favorite spots and took the side road that has lots of aspens on it!  Check out the yellow leaves in the middle of the picture - yes, fall is about to arrive!

I LOVE this ride through the aspens - this particular area has the really white trees !

It was nice and sunny with a lot of billowing clouds!

This was our campsite and Glenn was happy to be able to build his campfire!

The next day we headed to Bonanza - everytime we drive into this little tiny town, we marvel at the antlers on this building so this time I snapped a picture (although it sure isn't centered because we were on the ATV and I couldn't get my camera out fast enough!)

Amazing views - I never tire of this!  And note all of the dead trees - there are sure a lot of them!

We packed up and headed home later that afternoon after an excellent camping trip!