Trouble by the Numbers

It’s not just me who has trouble with numbers, as I learned yesterday. Oh, I already knew it was never just me, but let’s say it was brought to the fore again yesterday. Earlier this week, as I noted in a post, Dusty had called me to see which room at the Some Day Ranch […]

Waging War

I’m sitting here, under a cat, with my feet propped up in some rather wan sunlight, wishing it was warmer, even as I wonder what I’m wishing for. Chris Spears, meteorologist at CBS 4 Denver, has promised a 90-degree day in Denver. Yesterday may have been Denver’s first 90-degree-day of the year, and apparently this […]

A Place of Aging

On Monday, thinking it was the 25th, I started to tell you all about George Armstrong Custer’s last day on Earth. Then I was going to postpone it to the real 25th, but that didn’t happen. So I was going to go with it today, but reviewing the actions of an egomaniac who manufactured his […]

Electing to Participate

Perhaps you missed me yesterday; perhaps you heaved a sigh of relief to not be bothered by me; perhaps you didn’t even notice that I wasn’t in your inbox (if you’re following along at home), but I wasn’t here yesterday. I was going to be; I was busy writing, writing away, but at some point […]

Drained

If I thought I could not get through a day without plastic, I overlooked an even bigger necessity of modern Life in America: electricity. Yes, this stuff we like to think Ben Franklin invented, or at least discovered, is ubiquitous to my existence, as it probably is yours, assuming you’re reading this blog, the composition […]

Who Cares About Health?

At the national level, health care often functions, or really doesn’t, in theoretical policy. Many in the crowded Democratic presidential field are touting Medicare for all; the president keeps defying his advisers, who just want him to ignore the topic, by raising the specter of repeal with no plan for replace; congress seems happy to […]

Vanity, Thy Name is TL

Our friend Carol returned last week from her six-month California sojourn. Recently retired, this is the longest she’s been away from home — although she spent the time at her ancestral home — probably since she left her point of origin in the first place. So she sounded a touch surprised to find everything in […]

Under Contract

In May or June of 1969 (an anniversary I forgot to mark — 50 years ago!), coming off Monarch Pass in a snowstorm that I don’t recall but my mom does, a Ford Falcon station wagon pulled up at 412 Tincup Drive in Gunnison and disgorged my parents, my two sisters and me to begin […]

Elemental

This weekend, right on schedule, might be the high-water mark for the Gunnison River — and it is high. Lynn reports that there is some flooding at Almont, where the uncontrolled East River meets the dammed (but not damned) Taylor River to form the Gunnison. And the sheriff has closed most, if not all, of […]

Caveat Venditor

Once, several years ago, a college student (before they all became members of a university) came into my shop. She asked if it was owned locally, and if I was the owner. She then asked if I would come speak to her intro to business class. Her teacher had offered students extra credit if they […]