If You Are Lucky Enough

The saying "If you are lucky enough to live in Colorado, you are lucky enough, is so true.  We decided to drive up to Mt. Evans on a whim yesterday and even though it was a bit overcast the scenery was still so spectacular you don't even mind. We headed for our favorite stop on the way to the top where we have been so lucky to see several Rocky Mountain Sheep.  What do you call the young'uns, calves, lambs, kids or what? Anyway, we got some great pictures of them hiding in the rocks and such.
 Of course I had planned on doing a geocache or two along the way as I knew there were some up there but I assumed, wrongly, that I would be able to get cell coverage and use my handy-dandy geocaching app on my IPhone.  No such luck.  So no geocaches on the mountain for us today.

 On a road trip with the two of us you have to be prepared for lots of stops along the way, if it's not me wanting to stop for geocaches and historical markers it's Chris' amazing ability to spot wildlife from a speeding car.  Today was no different.   We made several of those roadside stops to catch a few clicks of the sun bathing Marmots and more amazing views. All in all another great day in the mountains, finished off with some mountain pie at Beau Joe's in Idaho Springs and yes, a geocache!  Yes, we are lucky enough. =)

My first blog

So I have really just discovered blogging, yes I know where have I been?  Under a rock evidently, but here it is anyway.  Right now I can't stop thinking about ants.  Ants!  Ants are not cute. Ants get in your food and on your furniture and in your carpeting and they bite!  I am sure they serve some useful purpose in the overall scheme of things, but right now I just want them gone! We have a giant ant colony under our patio.  The pest people come out and spray the cracks and all around the house foundation, and the next day there are literally thousands of dead and dying ants on the patio. Everyday I sweep their tiny carcasses off the cement. The next day there are more ants back to work building their little mounds of dirt, we call the exterminators and they spray some more and drop little granules down there and the next morning is a repeat of the last.  I am beginning to believe that our house is built on a giant ant hill and is slow sinking into the ground, or the ants are excavating all the dirt out from under us.  Now we have a colony out front as well.  The other day we saw a dark patch on the grass that turned out to be thousands and thousands of ants! I only hope they were moving out and not into the area.  We of course sprayed them and left thousands dead.  I am sure we have thoroughly pissed off the ant community with our non-stop persecution of their little lives.  And yet with all our chemical warfare the colony still survives to fight another day.  It's not that I have anything against ants per say, I just don't want them  all over my patio or in my house.  So the struggle continues, who will win?  Too early to say.