June 7-12, 2020 Fort Collins, Colorado

91 and sunny today.

I rode my bike to Mandy and John's for dinner. John drove over. He has spent the day kayaking some fast water and had had enough exercise. These are photos on the bike path. It is sooo green. Even if I didn't just come from the desert. Beautiful day.  

Dinner with Mandy and John in the back yard. It was a yummy dinner and it was good to see them. The temps dropped into the low 80's and John was freezing. Mandy lent him a coat to keep warm. After being in the desert with temps in the 100's, low 80's are cool.  

I took the masterpiece out of the kiln this evening, it was a long firing. But it was worth it, the new bubble squeeze firing schedule actually did squeeze them out. Usually air get trapped between all the little piece of glass in this technique, and I have to break them, refire and then paint over them.  Now I just need to paint some gold paint on this and slump it into a plate mold and it will be done. I am pleased with it. And the finished product, slumped into a plate with gold paint on it. 

I got the last of the garden in. Hauled compost, dug it in, planted the plants and spread mulch. Looks good, will look better when the plants are bigger. I got the garden in just in time for the hail storm last night. But the plants are little and they survived. 

My friend Judy painted this of the view of sunset from Shoshone. I love it. I just got it framed. I need to decide where to hang it. Right now it is just in a stand. A view from the bike path. It was a gorgeous day.

Another bike path shot. I like to sleep in, since I stay up way late working on glass. The sun wakes me up, so I had a variety of sleeping bags, liner, blankets and towels over the windows. It did the trick, but was kind of tacky. I got these  black out drapes at Costco and the fabric on sale at hobby lobby and voila! It is not the most stylish, but it is a lot better than what was there. 

The white water park was busy tonight. The bike path goes right by it. Sunset tonight. 

I made this little spring fairy for my garden. She will help it grow. I already dropped her and had to fix her. I also fused some butterflies. One in my poor little garden.  

Green on the bike path. Sunset from the bike path. 

Horse in sunset light and another sunset over a lake.  

I got my new Ipad today. I have an Amazon Fire, but it does not do much. I wanted it edit photos when I go on trips so I don't have to haul my whole laptop around. It won't even let me hook the camera up to it. The Ipad is supposed to do that. But first I have to learn how to use it.