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geodeticman.5 · 08-21-2008, 06:04 AM

BILLW - ah nothin important for the Q - your post fits right in , its good ole' conversation, general premise being: how are the dog-days of summer going your way ? Assuming you are having -em. Soon as I wrote the thread starter, next day it turned from blistering heat - I'll borrow that term, into unseasonably cool, rainy, oh -sh** aspens are gonna turn early, bad color, not at all and fall off olive-green dry dead leaf, or who knows...

as long as there is not a hard freeze before 3rd week of September, the aspens have a chance of spectacular if all bodes well.... its a site to behold in Colorado, around average of 7 -9,000 feet on the Eastern Slope in the Front Range -most prominent to ppl north of Denver - the Collegiate Peaks and more to Denverites, and the Rampart Range down south of Denver and up/out elevation -wise somewhat ( 6 - 8,000 ft.) without going in the mtns per se at all, or even foothills, it is just that high between the Denver Basin, and back down into Colo. Springs, where the southerly terminus of the Rampart Range is the majestic ( I sound like a travel pamphlet) Pike's Peak - the top of which is where some lady that could belt-em-out wrote "America the Beautiful" - at 14,200 feet.

A cool cog ratcheting railroad made by the Swiss (of course) goes up it year-round . 'cept for bad storms. Trains made by Sears Craftsmen tools, it sounds like ( that sound of a good quality 3/8" ratchet handle (arh arh arh), Its kind of reassuring-sounding when you realize that if it were to not have cogs, and its little electric motor failed, or someone pulled the plug for their Christmas lights (Chevy Chase -Clarke W. Griswold might do it) and the train careened backwards from 14,000 feet rather quickly down towards 6,000 ft at bottom, somewhere along the way it would hit, oh say, 400-600 mph, and fly straight off a curve into the air and little Jimmy down in Manitou Springs would say "Look Daddy, its Santa's Sleigh !" - and as I recall the OLD Frosty the Snowman cartoon at x-mas, it barely animates during a period-relevant commercial I will always remember as well as the cartoon - anyone else remember the "Norelco electric shavers" sledding and skiing sorta around the fake-snow set of the cartoon. Its alittle plug for what to by Dad, or the hubster, more $-pertinent.

Well, we are not quite to that weather yet, but u watch, in what will feel like 4 -6 weeks, we will be saying Merry Christmas and Happy Channukah (sp?) to one another!

So.... I guess we dig the weather for now....hot/cold/dry/humid whatever - cause its the last rites of sumer, then the false winter, then hopefully a great Indian Summer outhere September to...... 2 days before Halloween !

Happy dog-days wherever you are.... so whats going on your way to those who've read and have not shared some local colour with us ?

~geo steve

08-21-2008, 06:04 AM	#14
geodeticman.5 Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Eastern Slope urban corridor, Colo. USA Posts: 1,007	Re: How are the dog-days of summer your way ? BILLW - ah nothin important for the Q - your post fits right in , its good ole' conversation, general premise being: how are the dog-days of summer going your way ? Assuming you are having -em. Soon as I wrote the thread starter, next day it turned from blistering heat - I'll borrow that term, into unseasonably cool, rainy, oh -sh** aspens are gonna turn early, bad color, not at all and fall off olive-green dry dead leaf, or who knows... as long as there is not a hard freeze before 3rd week of September, the aspens have a chance of spectacular if all bodes well.... its a site to behold in Colorado, around average of 7 -9,000 feet on the Eastern Slope in the Front Range -most prominent to ppl north of Denver - the Collegiate Peaks and more to Denverites, and the Rampart Range down south of Denver and up/out elevation -wise somewhat ( 6 - 8,000 ft.) without going in the mtns per se at all, or even foothills, it is just that high between the Denver Basin, and back down into Colo. Springs, where the southerly terminus of the Rampart Range is the majestic ( I sound like a travel pamphlet) Pike's Peak - the top of which is where some lady that could belt-em-out wrote "America the Beautiful" - at 14,200 feet. A cool cog ratcheting railroad made by the Swiss (of course) goes up it year-round . 'cept for bad storms. Trains made by Sears Craftsmen tools, it sounds like ( that sound of a good quality 3/8" ratchet handle (arh arh arh), Its kind of reassuring-sounding when you realize that if it were to not have cogs, and its little electric motor failed, or someone pulled the plug for their Christmas lights (Chevy Chase -Clarke W. Griswold might do it) and the train careened backwards from 14,000 feet rather quickly down towards 6,000 ft at bottom, somewhere along the way it would hit, oh say, 400-600 mph, and fly straight off a curve into the air and little Jimmy down in Manitou Springs would say "Look Daddy, its Santa's Sleigh !" - and as I recall the OLD Frosty the Snowman cartoon at x-mas, it barely animates during a period-relevant commercial I will always remember as well as the cartoon - anyone else remember the "Norelco electric shavers" sledding and skiing sorta around the fake-snow set of the cartoon. Its alittle plug for what to by Dad, or the hubster, more $-pertinent. Well, we are not quite to that weather yet, but u watch, in what will feel like 4 -6 weeks, we will be saying Merry Christmas and Happy Channukah (sp?) to one another! So.... I guess we dig the weather for now....hot/cold/dry/humid whatever - cause its the last rites of sumer, then the false winter, then hopefully a great Indian Summer outhere September to...... 2 days before Halloween ! Happy dog-days wherever you are.... so whats going on your way to those who've read and have not shared some local colour with us ? ~geo steve