July 4-11, 2025 Fort Collins, Colorado

 86 and mostly sunny.

We went to Clair and Dave's house for a pre fireworks get together. It was great to see everyone. Yummy food. 

Then we walked across the street to the park to see the fireworks. Awesome as usual. 

Clown fish murrine, they kind of look like caterpillars after firing. Cousins Chris, Jamie, and Joan at a service for our dear cousin Marge. 

Cousins Tammy, Paul, Carla and Justin. Justin and Steve. 

There was a nice reception at cousins Jinna and Brad's house. Nice to see everyone. Sunset. 

Still making murrine. Nice Sunset.

Cool sunset clouds. I did a walk about at the test gardens at CSU.

The Exchange the other night in downtown Fort Collins. Sunset over Old Town Fort Collins. 

More jewels from the murrine I am making. 

June 20-July 3, 2025 Fort Collins, Colorado

 98, sunny and too hot.

Free Thursday  night concert in Old Town Square. Old Town Fort Collins.

My new Rayzist sandblaster arrived today! I still need to hook it up. I spent the last two days pulling came and making murrini 

The blue cane and some of the murrini. The green ones we made in class at the glass expo. The raven is the test sand blast I did in the new blaster. It is soooo nice to use. Mandy came over for dinner. John cooked cheese steaks. Yum yum.

Sunset last  night and the night before. 

More cane and murrine. I loaded some of the murrine into molds.

The fired products. The big round one is a dichroic slab I will cut up , bevel and polish. 4 dichroic squares I will also  bevel and polish. The murinne's came out beautiful. Sunset last night.

There was an art market downtown Fort Collins today. I checked it out. I looked into selling there, the night before, but the application was unclear to me. Plus too late for me to get organized. But I talked to the organizers and think I will sell at another one of the ones they have. We had dinner with John and Mandy last night at Blue Agave. It was great to see them. The food was yummy and the margarita's were great. 

I had tacos al pasteur and they were excellent. Rainbow last evening, but no rain and I missed the sunset. 

The finished jewels.

I got a leaf shaped base plate and pulled these beautiful murrine. 

 

June 14 - 19, 2025 Fort Collins, Colorado

 89 and mostly sunny. 

A few cute gardening jokes from the nursery where I picked up some plants. Rain bow in the afternoon.

Sunset. Some kind of weird light. 

We got a small table and umbrella for our new deck. Small cell with a tiny bit of rain falling from it from the bike path.

The school of rock students were rocking on the stage in Old Town Square. Looks to be around jr high to high school age. Cool that there is a school of rock for them. High of 67, cloudy and stormy. Supposed to be severe weather this afternoon with thunder storms, heavy rain, hail and high wind. I covered my new garden. It did rain hard with wind, and some small hail, but not severe. So begins the summer of rushing out and covering the garden!

The sun came out on the new deck. It rained during dinner time, so we ate inside. Cool looking clouds on the bike path tonight. 

The previous picture clouds a bit later. Sunset on the railway bridge over the Poudre on my bike ride. 

The water park with some kayakers on the wave. 

Sunset. We leave the desert because it was so hot and look what we are getting this week in Fort Collins!

The service I was using to print my blog books went out of business. I found a new one, and here are the latest two. I have another one to make to catch up. I have 35 blog books from our 15 years on the road. Finally got to use the new umbrella.

Sold my sandblaster in one day on Craig's list! Woo hoo. The guy's  came prepared with a box truck with a lift. My studio has lots of room with out it. But tomorrow a newer, fancier sandblaster is being delivered. It will go at the end of those two shelves. The old one was back in the bright part of the studio, the new one is taller so needs to come forward. The whole area used to be John's workshop, he is now in the corner on the left. What a man, split his space with me for my studio.