June 1-7 2014 Colorado

The bus is still in the shop for maintenance. The water is still high on the river.

Bike path closed due to flooding. I can still ride, just have lots of detours. I am riding 10-12 miles a couple times a week and John is walking 5-6 miles. The photo of Healing Waters submitted for jurying to a glass show in Colorado Springs.

Fire Wave and Flaming tree photos submitted for jurying.  The theme of the show is the elements, Fire, Water, Air and Earth.

They took out a diversion dam on the river by the bike path and whatever they put in resulted in this wave people are surfing. I made this great dress from a bedspread I bought at the thrift shop.

These trees don’t usually have water under them, except when the river floods. Looks kind of like the swamps from the south east US.  Wild flowers are blooming in front of a lake on the bike path.

Foxgloves in the garden at my Denver house. I decided to scrape and paint the house. Little touch up. My friend Katie who came to help brought a power washer and power washed. It took off a lot more paint than I thought it would. We spent the rest of the day-about 8 hours scraping.

My cousin Reed, who is renting the house from me starting the priming. Took another day, and is almost done. Now I need to go back and paint on top of the primer. . . Berkely lake at sunset with a coot and a pelican, it is just  half a block from my house. We took the mile walk around the lake.

I got back to Fort Collins and some of John’s crazy kayak buddies from the old days had shown up and they boated a couple days. Here John has prepared breakfast. John Mattson, John M and Dave Black. June 6 is our anniversary.  Our first date was on June 6, 2006 or o6o6o6, or  666. John says the devil made him do it. We had the spiritual ceremony on memorial day weekend, early June in 2011. John says he can only remember one date, so it is 666. Any of you who don’t remember the real date, well when John was doing the taxes for our first year together it was $14,000 cheaper to file married. John handed me the form and said sign here dear, with this form I thee wed.  In Colorado to be common law married you just have to present yourself as man and wife once.  My husband is so romantic! So a few photos of us, including in the top right at our spiritual ceremony on the river and the bottom right at the reception John’s family had for us when we visited them.

John and Sue at dinner at El Monte, a wonderful Mexican restaurant in Fort Collins. What a fun adventure it has been. Thank you John.