November 10, 2012

November 10, 2012

We weren't in too much of a hurry this morning.  There was a fairly good breakfast with a nice variety at the hotel.  It rained while we were eating, but had stopped by the time we loaded things in the car.

Before leaving the area we filled the gas tank.  There isn't much chance of bad weather, but we're prepared just in case.

We took a back road from Pueblo West to I-25, cutting off about 20 miles of the trip and allowing us to avoid Pueblo.  The scenery in the area was "nothing to write home about," just lots of sage brush and scrappy clumps of wild grass.  But a short cut is usually good and this one was just that...good!

Once we got north of Colorado Springs the scenery improved. There were pine trees and we were closer to the mountains.

The further north we drove the worse the weather got. When we left Pueblo West the temp was 56°.  By 1:00, with 40 miles to go to Loveland, the temp was 33° and it was snowing.  We were glad for the snow, but ready to get home so we could enjoy watching the white stuff fall!  It continued to snow hard for several hours.

We went to Meredith and Dwaine's for dinner.  On a snowy night, what could be better than chili?  It was really good.

We went back home in time to see the Oregon Duck’s game against Cal.  It was snowing hard again.  As we were watching the game, Bill who claims to not be too fond of snow, kept jumping up to look outside to see if it was still snowing.  What a fake!

58 to17!  That’s a “quack attack!’