Happy Thanksgiving!

 

We're headed up to the in-laws in Cheyenne for the day. Hope you all have a Happy Thanksgiving.

Day Trip to the Ames Monument

 We packed and hit the road last week. Beautiful day, 75*, nice breeze......in Fort Collins.

By the time we got to the monument it was ~50*, and 25~35 MPH winds. And we were at 8250 feet, with nothing for miles any way you looked. Yes, windchill is a real thing.

The monument was built to honor Oliver and Oakes Ames, and sits at the highest elevation the First Transcontinental Railroad. Built between 1880 and 1882. The Ames Brothers were implicated with the massive fraud that went on during the building of the railroad.
 

Don't know which one this is, but the birds don't appear to like him.

 

SLW ducking around a corner to get out of the wind. Yep....not much up there.

 Interesting to see the tool marks from when the rocks were quarried and worked.

It was a fun little trip, and the drive North on Rt 287 is enjoyable.

AND Hermosa Road was freshly graded, so we didn't rattle our teeth loose once we got off 287.
 

Can You Say Radio Blackout?

 Youch! Haven't seen things this squirrelly in quite a while:

 

Radio propagation in the 3~30MHz range is pretty bad tonight.

Anywhoo....Back to the Basement! where the Fisher receiver is showing positive signs of life..... 

Painting Season Is Officially CLOSED

 At this point I'm calling it "done", for various interpretations of "done".

Still have some over-spray to clean up, and I have other areas that I want to spot-in, but Operation Paint Yer Wagon yielded some very nice results.

 

And now the scary part......putting it all back together!

 

Enjoy the upcoming week, keep yer head swivelin', and check your popcorn stocks. I have a feeling things are going to be interesting this month.....