Connie in Ouray

 It has been WAY too warm for Ouray, highs in the 40s during the day, sometimes not getting below freezing at night.  While Mike was doing pothole repair on the bridge over the ice gorge, some climbers told him the ice is getting pretty soft.  We do have some chances of snow Monday night into Wednesday early morning, but at this point, it's hard to be hopeful.  Current snow total is 90.5 inches, seven and a half feet.  That's five inches ahead of two years ago and 31 inches below last year. Mike and I went up to Ironton Park on Wednesday, he to cross-country ski and me to snowshoe.  We were on different trails, and the one I took meandered in and out of the woods - oh, so pretty!  It was a pretty flat trail, and now that I'm more familiar, I'll take a more difficult one next time. We met our new neighbor a few nights ago.  Briggs Rigby is the young man renting Jason's (13) new tiny house.  He is a construction manager just out of college at LSU and working in Tellur

 We either get a lot of snow or a lot of sun.  We're currently at 85 inches, 30 more than two years ago, 20 less than last year.   All this means we've had lots of sun, mood brighteners if you will.  I've been taking advantage of the trail we've made up Veenstra's trail and snowshoeing about every other day.  Alex and Dustin were out yesterday skiing.  There's really no way to describe the serenity of those woods, but you've all experienced it.   I just know this is an animal's bedroom Coming into Ridgway last week