June 17-22, 2023 Fort Collins, Colorado

 75 and partly sunny. 

John came down to my brother's condo today with his van and loaded up all the donation items I had ready and took them to the Goodwill. Then he came back and loaded up all the trash and we went to the dump. The countryside is soooo green. 

Loveland lake as we drove through Loveland. John tossing a box into the dump. I had never been to the dump, so that was fun. It was very muddy and they were only letting 4 wheel drives in, which we were. 

When we got back to Fort Collins I noticed that it had hailed. Of course just the day after I planted my garden. But the garden survived.  I took a bike ride along the river. It is really high. The guage in town, the water park is raging. A stand up paddle boarder trying out one of the waves. Play it safe, river conditions are fast, cold and dangerous. Experience and specialized gear needed. 

Flowers and very green grass along the bike path. I took John out to dinner as a thank you for helping me today. It was lovely. This is our view of sunset from our table. 

Lake Ridge Condo Association dedicated this flower garden to my brother Jerry. Really sweet. Made me cry. 

Sunset from Jerry's condo. Cleaning out my brothers condo. This is part of the most recent pile of items to donate. Making progress. 

85 and mostly sunny. A beautiful day. And a high ozone alert day. We drove down to my brother's condo to continue cleaning it out. The view of the mountains was kind of weird, you could see the snow on top, but the mountains themselves kind of blending with the sky- so it looked like floating snow. Hard to tell in this photo tho. We made amazing progress on the clean out. About the only thing left is the furniture and the exercise equipment. Hopefully some charity (like Goodwill) will pick it all up for them to sell. 

Saw this 6 door GMC truck go by pulling a beautiful long Airstream Trailer. I cooked John a lovely dinner of left over fajitas on our deck for dinner. 

John took me out to dinner at a new restaurant in Old Town. We had mostly appetizers. We sat inside near the open door to the patio, it was raining.  Sunset on the way home. 

Beautiful day for a bike ride. The bike path. Of course as soon as I put the camera away a deer walked by. Sunset from our deck during dinner. 

Jenny and Larry are visiting. They went kayaking yesterday and today. I am too much of a wimp to boat the white water that they like. The river is still up to 1500 CFS in town. 

Nice waves along the bike path. The grasses are waist deep high and covered with pollen, Very pretty. Milk weed and blanket flower.