Football...

… is a stupid game. Pro football anyway. The Broncos couldn’t beat the Colts. Their strategy was to stop the run and make Manning throw the ball. They didn’t stop the run. They didn’t stop the throws either.

College football is still good… unless you’re a Texas fan. They got spanked.

But baseball… Baseball is still good. The Rockies get a 163 game season this year. They won 13 of their last 14 games, which sets them up for a one-game playoff with the Padres tomorrow to see who goes on to the post season.

I have a question

If fruits and vegetables are nature’s most perfect food; the building blocks of healthy diet; our first line of defense against disease; our balance and protection against that dreaded animal flesh …

Why are Eskimos still alive? They live on fish and sea mammals. They eat meat. There isn’t anything else out there to eat.

They’re not following a proper food pyramid.

Lathrop

We’re on the move again.

Dinner and laundry at Becky’s house. A visit with Matt and the boys on the way out. A drive south on Interstate 25 in the wind. A stop for the night at Lathrop State Park in some weather.

A good sports day. Colorado beat third ranked Oklahoma in Boulder. That makes Colorado number two, doesn’t it? If a person was interested in baseball, the Rockies would be fun to watch. They’ve won something like 11 out of their last 12 games; fifteen games or so over 500; but they have to win their remaining games and the Padres have to lose theirs for the Rockies to have a shot at the wildcard spot in the playoffs. Tonight the Rockies are ahead 11 to 1. The Padres lost in eleven today. They both play games again tomorrow.

Go Rockies.

Now the Broncos…. Yesterday’s newspaper announced their strategy for tomorrow’s game against the Colts. They mean to make Manning throw the ball. Nice strategy Broncos. How bad could Peyton Manning hurt you throwing the ball?

Tomorrow, we head for Cortez. We’ll go west on highway 160, through Alamosa, the San Luis Valley, South Fork, over Wolf Creek Pass, through Pagosa Springs, and Durango. If we leave early, we should be able to catch all of the afternoon Bronco game.

Staffing

Last year we made great plans for 2007. We would find another person who wanted to travel around like we do, working with nonprofit organizations and split up the traveling audit load.

We found that person early in the year but he didn’t work out. We kept after it though, and Casey Lynch found us. Casey is a CPA in Durango who has twenty-five years experience auditing nonprofit organizations so he is a perfect fit with us. He has worked with me off and on all summer. These last two weeks Casey has done the audit jobs and I have provided support; the week before from right there in Glenwood with him; this week, digitally from farther away.

I have four more jobs scheduled this year. Casey has four more jobs scheduled this year too

Now we’re making great plans for 2008.

St Vrain

We’re not in Glenwood Springs. We’re at St Vrain State Park again. Almost ready to head for Cortez.

Meanwhile, we have these neighbors to contend with.

Motorhomes

Our coach was so new you could tell just by looking at it. Four slides; weren’t many of those around. The big single piece windshield; that was distinctive; not many of those. Now, two years later, it’s not so special. It is still shiny and nice, but no so unique. Almost all new coaches have the big windshield and four slides. There are plenty of new coaches on the road now.

We can look at twenty-year old motorhomes, and no matter how well they have been taken care of, you can tell they’re old. The designs have changed. They don’t have any slides. The windshields have a big bar down the middle. The resting position for the windshield wipers leaves them up in the driver’s view.

Which leads us to wonder: what will coaches be like twenty years from now? We can see ourselves still in this coach in twenty years. People will see us driving by and tell their children, “Kids; that’s what motorhomes used to look like.”

Along the way

I liked Shaffer’s response to the motorhome picture mystery:

“I don't have my plumbing license, but that stuff has never flowed uphill.”