August 18-24, 2024 Fort Collins, Colorado

 90 plus and sunny.

These needles were dyed royal blue on the left and purple on the right. The royal blue came out green and the purple an ugly brown. Re-dyed half of the green ones navy blue, and am going to try more purple on the purples. And will retry the royal on a smaller bunch of needles, I think I put too many in the dye bath. And saved  some of the greens. I now have three shades of green, really want some blue. Sunset was more or less blocked by storm clouds to the west, but got this. 

The last combing came out nice. Cobalt blue and white. I the kiln is another type of comb, same colors to try an use as a border for this. A couple signs of the times.

My friends Katy and Katie  and I drove down to Canon City to raft with our friend Dennis. Beautiful warm day on the river.

Fun on the river.

It was 91 degrees so the water felt great.

Scenery on the Arkansas river.

We took Dennis out to dinner for yummy Mexican food. It is always a fun trip with my friends and great to see Dennis. Sunset on rain on the way back.

Sunset on the way back. We had drinks with Barry at Odell's last night. Nice to visit with him.

My garden is going crazy. I just planted it in mid June and already tomatoes are turning red! Sunset.

We watched the Tour De Phat. It is put on my New Belgium brewing, which is all about bikes. Hundreds of people on bikes in costume doing loops along Mountain Ave. It was followed by an all day event at the brewery, bands, booths, food and of course beer. 

Cool paintings on this sign. Sunset again.