Bull elk

These seen in a meadow on the way to Estes Park.

Since the rutting season is over they are off alone.  It is likely we will see herds of cows, maybe in the streets causing an elk jam.

Estes Park

John would not let us into Estes Park until he took this picture:

There are six of us in the picture . . . .

Where in the world is Obie?  He got slighted.

Denver is wonderful!  We have a great room at a great price.  A Marriott property.  Again thanks to Hotwire.  Six floors up looking due west over Denver to the mountains.  Weather is cool not bracing.  It will be sunny and 65 today for the visit to the zoo.  I am going in shorts!

Tomorrow we are off for a night or two to Estes Park.

(if you haven't found Obie yet, look for the eyes, ears and nose between my right leg and Debbie's left.)

No imagination

Who thunk up this name?  I guess Kan got to go first because the town is in Kansas.  If it was in Colorado, the town would be named Colorass, which I think rolls off the tongue better.

Going west

Being an easterner, southerner, Floridian, never even out of the state until I was 16, I never really got the term, midwest.  For example, here we are in Topeka, which is about the midpoint of America east to west, but it is considered the western edge of the midwest.  Go figure, Census Bureau.  More of an oddity, Ohio is considered the midwest, and it is only two states away from the Atlantic Ocean!

I will have to say the midwest is beautiful country.  If the weather was better . . . .

DNA testing solves problem

I had heard of this before, DNA testing to identify owners who do not pick up after their dogs:

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/regionals/south/2013/08/24/condos-braintree-and-watertown-using-dna-track-littering-dogs-and-their-owners/eoJ1F6XaEYGlQzaWiv4grI/story.html


But there are some facts in the story worth reviewing.  Sixty bucks to get your dog tested.  Fifty to test the poo.  Good actors do have to put up $60 once in the lifetime of each dog, but the problem gets solved, and bad actors get to pay the lion's share of the solution.

All communities should institute this!

Wal Mart sells it

My Dad favored Jack Daniels Green Label and would come home most every night, fill a large ice tea glass first with ice, then with Jack.  He would sip that drink throughout the evening, usually falling asleep in his Lazy Boy before us kids' bedtime.  I am not doing the same, but I periodically toast the Old Man, now with Jack Daniels Black after having visited America's Distillery No. 1.

And now I learn Wal Mart gets to sell liquor!  In Missouri.  In the store.  Not in a separate store like Florida requires.

I did check, and Jack sold in Wal Mart is not Made in China.