Life Transplanet

We just hung out in Greeley this weekend. Went out to dinner at the Rio one night, stayed home most of the day Sunday. Saw our friend JR who we haven’t seen in a long time.

Britton, Me, and JR

I have also almost finished reading The Rum Diary  by Hunter S. Thompson, the author of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. It almost entirely takes place in Puerto Rico, although there is quite a long part about getting drunk and partying in St. Thomas. Apparently, Hunter S. Thompson once lived in Puerto Rico and this is basically a thinly-veiled journal of his time as a writer at the Star. I also just now learned that Johnny Depp is set to yet-again play the lead character in a film-version of the book.

I think Thompson had a love-hate relationship with the island. Throughout various passages you can sense a sort of uneasiness, but there are moments when he relaxes and takes it all in, and it takes his breath away. From the book: “I bought a Times for forty cents and read about a blizzard in New York: ‘Merrit Parkway closed…BMT stalled four hours…snowplows in the streets..everyone late to work…’ I looked out at the bright Caribbean morning, green and lazy and full of sun, then I put the Times away.”

Hunter S. Thompson died in Colorado, February 20, 2005, and The San Juan Star , the primary English-language newspaper on the island closed on August 29, 2008.

And a song of the day (de jour/del dia) from BK:
rusted-root-free-my-soul

Fall has descended. The tomatoes have suffered their first frost, so we had to go and pick them. The deciduous trees are all turning yellow, red and brown and it looks gorgeous outside. We are back up to about 60 degree weather, so we have been spending time outdoors again. We have also started making “cold weather food” like warm breads, soup, chili, spaghetti and so on. Autumn can be comforting if you don’t have to go outside when it is really cold.

Lots of Tomatoes Picked

Chickens pecking around the Garden (w/ withered tomatoes)

Homemade Bread Loaf and Buns

What a Bucolic Scene w/ horse behind our House

Mountains, Lake and Changing Trees Out Back

I’ve been playing some Forza on Xbox. I figured I’d post up some pics of my Viper. Racing simulators are quite a bit of fun.

Not much more to say today. Another day, another dollar. I plan on generating my own electricity when in PR from the flow of the river. I can feed that into power conditioners and play videogames, watch movies and surf the web while being ‘green’.

I love gardening, so it is sad to see our tomato plants and roses slowly wither away and die. The only plant that is great in the fall are mums, or chrysanthamums (sp). The white chicken is still the only one to lay, but the black one is getting big. She looks like she is about double the size of little miss leghorn. Here are some pictures of the cooling Colorado weather. Britton and I have decided to go to Puerto Rico in January with a closing -or not. We need to get down there, and this weather is ever the convincer.

Cold Dew on the Roses

Another Cold Rose

Leghorn and Kitty at the Back Patio

Schnoodle and the Mums

Close up of one of the mums

Britton and I went to Fort Collins last weekend to see a movie because it wasn’t playing in Greeley but we got lost and missed the early showing, so we decided to go up to Horsetooth Reservoir and hike around a little bit. It was beautiful and perfect weather, probably the last nice weather (you might notice no coat on Britton) of the year.

Britton on a rock

Beautiful Vista of the Reservoir

The weather has definitely changed and the temperature has dropped. This weekend we hardly left the house -just for groceries and lunch on Sunday. It’s only about 40 degrees! Kitty kept trying to run into the house and the chickens kept fluffing up their feathers outside Uggh! Times like these remind me how much I want Puerto Rico! We keep checking the temperature differences (40 here, 84 there). Just wait till we get the snow..Brrr.