Another amazing day in the mountains

We are enjoying 60-degree weather on Mineral Farms Lane, and the snow is melting.  The year before I moved to Colorado, I had a calendar with scenes from Colorado for each month, and I remember thinking that the blue of the sky had to be enhanced.  How would it be possible to have a sky that color?  I soon learned that indeed the sky here is that color, and we have been experiencing that since the storm passed.

Trying so hard to hang onto color

Neighbors have been visiting - love seeing people walking around.  The Bryans (11) are here with their son and some friends from Baltimore and Minnesota.  The Purdys (7) have been here all along, but now they have more people with them.  I haven't had a chance to meet them but maybe children and grandchildren?  Some friends of Aaron and Marchelle (24) are up from Flagstaff.  I met Darren and Finian while they were fishing on the dam road.  They are celebrating Finian's eighth birthday in the most wonderful place on earth - no, not Disneyland.

While the dogs and I were out walking Friday morning, those little brats scared up the turkeys before I even noticed they were in the area.  I assumed that turkeys could fly.  They're birds after all.  However, I didn't realize they could fly to the top of a very tall tree to escape dogs.  I was shocked to see one of the turkeys teetering on a very small branch so high off the ground and squawking its lungs out.   Yesterday, those three turkeys were hanging around outside our garage.  Fortunately I saw them this time before I let the dogs out.  

I still owe you a propane story, and it seems endless.  I'll get to it when life gets dull up here.