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Ten Degrees and Getting Colder

  Cold Sunrise   That's just the name of the song written by Gordon Lightfoot.  It was actually -13 F when I got up this morning (wind chill -24).  Tucson may have pulled back into the lead!  There's a lot of weighing pros and cons of Colorado vs Arizona by the wood stove.  Not much else to report. I did enjoy a few games of pool and a beer with my brother this week.  We don't get together very often, so it's good to try to keep the lines of communication open, especially with my mother celebrating her 86th birthday next month.  He lives in Milwaukee and just started semi-retirement.  Our opposing politics and lifestyles keep things very casual and surface-level.  Not that there's anything wrong with that.   It's important to find common ground.  He and his wife have started going to concerts and recently saw the Steve Miller Band.  Music is one of our common interests.      
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Iowa Lakes Region, Part 2

From June 2021

Our grass at home was growing long, and our time was running short on the Colorado trip.  Instead of stopping at Toppling Goliath Brewery in Decorah, Iowa, we elected to stay one more night in Iowa's Lakes Region. 

While we enjoyed our stay at Robertson Park, we decided to move to Emerson Bay State Recreation Area on Emerson Bay, a part of West Okoboji Lake.  We've had very good luck with Iowa State parks--no entry fee and relative low campground fees commensurate with services.  Our new site was $20/night with electric and shower access.

Emerson Bay is a large body of water with beaches, piers, and lots of people boating.  I was pretty happy with a spot in the shade.

Julia put in some beach time.

That evening, we went to Arnold's Park.


And ate a terrific dinner on the outdoor patio at Maxwell's Beach Cafe.

It was the perfect ending to our trip to Colorado and back home.

Skipping forward to the present,  we are continuing to get hammered by cold weather, rain and snow at the end of April.  During my "writing break," we took several more trips which I will continue to document when there isn't anything else to write about in Wisconsin.

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