Colorado Life
Colorado is a nice place to live. We will always be tied to Colorado, as we are Colorado natives. We have nothing against Colorado except maybe the weather. I have heard it said, and believe it to be true, that Colorado has two seasons: Snow and Road Construction.
Schnoodle coming in from the snow
We also have another Colorado saying that goes something like this: If you don’t like the weather, just wait and it will change. That is also very true because I have witnessed 70 degree weather days turn into 3 day-long blizzards with 20 inches of snow in a matter of hours. It is so unpredictable I am sure that being a weatherman here is a karmic torture for past-lives wrong-doing. A recent tornado in this area was not even identified until about 2 hours before it hit.
Somewhere in the mountains
Greeley in January
Overall, however, Colorado is not a bad place to live. We have beautiful mountains, and the summers are just gorgeous. Of course there’s snowboarding and skiing in the mountains in the winter and summer commodity farming in the east. And as you may have heard (and read in Fast Food Nation), Greeley is known euphemistically for its “beef production” or more directly: cow slaughter. You know that smell, they say, is the smell of money.
Britton came up with a new city slogan: “Greeley. Where cows come to die”
Well, if we live until we are 99, we figure we will have given at least a third of our lives to Colorado and the lifestyle here and that is ok. But we live on a planet full of opportunity and have more mobility as a species than any time in the past. Therefore, we will enjoy Colorado while we’re here and when the time is right, the other parts of this great world as well. We will live a life transplanet.
Here we are in our beautiful backyard
