This is why I love Colorado.

Panning for gold…

Jameson seeing ahead.

Click here for the pictures of cows we saw four-wheeling up here!

Probably the greatest reason I have for wanting to go play in the dirt and the forest is pictures like this:

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There’s something magical about camping in Colorado. We took our first trip for the year late in the season– this last weekend. It was PUUUUURRFECT! If you’ve never been camping out here in this gorgeous land, check out these pictures… THIS is why we do it!!!

Above is a picture of the Jeep before we left. It’s all pretty and shiny. Hooray for shiny!

We went up near Guanella Pass– though I’m not sure yet where exactly we were… still working on figuring that part out, but I think it was somewhere along Geneva Creek. We came up there through Grant, CO, and it was only a little more than an hour away from home.

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To the most amazing fog. Fog is unusual in Colorado, seeing as we’re landlocked.

I snapped a photo out my bedroom window. Yes, I swear it’s Colorado, and this is NOT how it normally looks, but it was SOOOO pretty.

We had six tornadoes here in Colorado yesterday.

There are a lot of people whose homes were damaged or destroyed. I know that many of them are not going to have the money to rebuild/survive while they wait for the insurance companies to assess damage and write checks… so I figured I’d donate.

I found a link on 9News that gives us an address to mail stuff to, or an online link where you can automatically send $10. That’s what I did.

I figure that if all of us can afford $10, that’s a lot of money coming in to help.

Here’s the link! (Click on “link”)

For some good news…

I’ve decided that I have to recycle in order to really do MY part in averting the madness that has become our daily trash routine.

It’s about time, and I figure NOW is as good a time as any to get started.

Here’s a resource for the recycling of some of the questionable stuff you may not have thought of.

The List of things you can recycle is nearly endless:

• Aerosol cans
• Adhesives
• Aluminum/ Aluminum cans
• Antifreeze
• Appliances
• Asphalt
• Automotive Products
• Automobiles
• Batteries
• Books
• Brass
• Cardboard
• Carpet & Pads
• Cleaners & waxes
• Clothes
• Computers/ printers
• Concrete
• Drums & barrels
• Eyewear
• Flammables
• Fluorescent lighting
• Freon
• Furniture
• Household hazardous waste
• Ink Jet Cartridges
• Magazines/ catalogs
• Mercury
• Motor Oil - used
• Newspaper
• Office Paper
• Oil filters
• Paint
• Pallets
• Poison
• Propane tanks
• Scrap metal
• Thermostats/ Thermometers
• Tires
• Yard waste (branches/leaves/grass/sod)

For the stuff that’s more common, you can easily drop it off at Lakewood Recycling Center. It’s at 1050 Quail St. in Lakewood, CO

They’re open 24/7; paper, recyclable plastic, recyclable metal, recyclable glass… lakewood.org

They make it pretty easy for us newbies. We don’t have to separate any of it– just drop off the following:

• Newspapers, magazines, office paper, junk mail
• Telephone books
• Aluminum, plastic, glass, tin (and more!)
• Cardboard

All of this goes into any one of those dumpsters, and it’s pretty easy to do this. I’m finding things that I would’ve never thought about… like laundry soap containers (I rinsed these out first), face wash bottles, vitamin bottles, shampoo bottles…

Here’s a link for some recycling guidelines for Louisville, CO…

Also, here’s a handy dandy link that gives you a list of things you can recycle, and then it gives you a list of places you can take them to!!!

Gotta love Colorado weather.  Yesterday, it was 70 degrees, and today we have an expected 3-6 inches of snow.  Yay for the craziness!  We have a saying in Colorado… “Don’t like the weather? Wait 5 minutes.” I was thinking that’s sort of like this blog… don’t like the content?  Try a different post.  *grin*