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trips up Fossil Hill,<\/p>\n and lots of busy ness just as I was getting used to having people around most every day they all<\/p>\n went away, leaving us here alone at last to settle in, only a little worse for wear [Long Covid?<\/p>\n Old Age? High altitude?], the only continuing downside being someone helpful put something odiferous in the trash and we won’t be going to the dump for another ten days…plus then the<\/p>\n weather warmed steadily, nothing like a lot of places but unseasonably for here, not what we<\/p>\n felt prepared for for sure.<\/p>\n It certainly wasn’t as extreme as eastern Jordan where<\/p>\n son Bryan was tracking the vintage truck market but<\/p>\n for us even the trip over Fossil Hill<\/p>\n to the Libre Library was close to all we could manage…that<\/p>\n and small late afternoon perambulations around the homeplace.<\/p>\n We eventually had to make that first trip to Pueblo for Gagliano’s <\/a>delicacies, groceries, perio [a sign of the times – running into old friends in the periodondist’s<\/a> waiting room], hundred degree<\/p>\n temps, some not entirely satisfactory Hispanic Food, \u00a080\/twenty, <\/a>and another fun sampling<\/p>\n of “summer driving season”\u00a0down I-25<\/a> before hitting the Gardner post office and home<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n