Not much going on, just trucking along

 Things have been quite routine lately, and as such there's been a dearth of things to write about, but here goes.

We typically drive down the canyon and into town for a shop-up once a week. This keeps us in fresh fruits and vegetables plus our dairy & eggs - we eat well 🥭🍒🍓🍍and love our morning fruit bowl. I keep a selection of fruits all cut up and ready to pour into a bowl, but it's hard not to get carried away and end up with too much. (1st world problem I know. God is good!)

The neighbor next door has a big raspberry patch under the tongue
of his 5th wheel. Occasionally, I pick a few, lol. 😉

The roads down the canyon(s) are very pretty and offer a nice change of scenery. Here's a shot from one we took the other day.

This road comes out into the south end of town by the Horsetooth reservoir. There's always a lot of cyclists out enjoying the ups and downs of the road, especially in July with the Tour de France underway. Speaking of which, this year the coverage is on Peacock rather than on the network station. That means we have to get our news & highlights via Youtube, and only get an abbreviated look at the action and the scenery. 😢😠 Man, I hope it's not like that next year - I guess that will depend on the ratings. It's a bummer that they put the coverage on a subscription channel.

It's been a crazy cottonwood season - I thought I'd throw in a shot of a tree branch that fell down. It looks like snowflakes when the wind catches it and it gets blown around.

Cottonwood branch

I bought a big bag of Yukon gold potatoes the other day, as we use them for homefries, put them into stews and of course, make our Italian sausage and potato soup. It's a favorite combined with a small salad for a lighter supper. I thought I'd try mashing some of the cubes up then putting them flat in a baggie and freezing them. It worked out well when after a couple of weeks I got them out and made the soup, saved a lot of time/effort. I use some beef stock granules when cooking the potatoes.

I almost always have cooked, cubed pot's handy,
just add the mashed and cooked sausage, plus milk,
stock and a few more ingredients and you've got soup.

See, I told you nothing much is going on, haha. Our big excitement in the past week was a huge, intense thunderstorm with hail! Luckily, none of the hail was bigger than a good-sized pea. The ground definitely got a good soaking, but the flowers took a beating, especially the petunia's. We've thought about making a pool noodle car cover, lol, seriously!!

That was a lot of hail!

The weather otherwise has been great, quite cool in the morning's but warming up nicely. We debated taking the electric blanket off the bed but decided to wait. Last night it went down to 39° and there's more of that in the offing. I'm OK with cooler weather, we have our electric fireplace and heater for the mornings and our A/C for the afternoons, lol. At 7200' the sun gets hot and intense on a summer day.

So that's about it for now, hopefully I'll have something a little more exciting, or at least more interesting, next time out. Thanks for dropping by and I hope the weather where you are is decent. There have been a lot of vicious storms and floods and stuff out there, whew! Take care and see you later. 😊☀️