June 12-22, 2022 Fort Collins, Colorado

 95 and sunny. We made it back to Fort Collins. 

 Driving east on I-80 with a tailwind. One last fill up. With the tail wind we got 10.1 mpg!

Woo hoo, welcome to Colorado! 4 hours of driving and then 4 hours of unpacking the bus, up and down stairs in 95 degrees to our place above the garage. We are whooped. Sunset a couple days ago. We both have killer colds. Tested neg for covid, so just sick and my back is still killing me, so not much activity. 

The city  threw a block party so we could meet with city people in .the park 1/2 block away. There was drinks, snacks, games, police, fire etc. people. The Fort Collins Police command post and me sitting in the SWAT armored vehicle. We got to see some really high tech drones. 

 

John got to visit with former coworkers and I got a tour of a fire truck at the city block party. It is always reassuring that we have dedicated officers and equipment protecting us. The right half of a gigantic thunderhead last night at sunset.

The left half of the same cloud. There was a big storm south of us for hours last night, nice lightening show. Flowers in Old Town Square Fort Collins.

We had dinner on our deck.  The weather was lovely. We have been having the same homemade chicken soup for days. Each day we add something else so it seems like a different meal. It  must be helping, our colds are much, much better. I am gong to have to start selling some art, I am running out of room to put it. Baskets on the dining room table.

Baskets on the chest of drawers. Baskets in the living room with a couple of older glass pieces I made.

I finished  Rainbow Dance. It is combed glass I made at the glass expo in Las Vegas in May, but I finished it off by slumping it into a bowl mold. I am going to try some more with this technique. I bought this new wet tile saw so I can cut thick pieces of glass. I am working on a pattern bar technique.

The sun setting on me cutting pattern bars in the backyard. The pattern bars before cutting.  I arranged the pattern bar slices in molds and fired them.

This is how they came out, top side and back side. I did not have enough glass in the top two , so they did not fill the mold. Meanwhile John is BBQing cauliflower steaks to go with bbq pork and farro pilaf. They came out yummy.

I slumped last night. The River piece that I made at the glass expo was flat when I brought it home, I slumped it into the wave mold. Trying to decide where to mount it on something, or leave it as is. I also slumped the two not round pattern bar pieces.