During August & September we've had tons and tons of rain storms, and as you can guess later into September as the temps started cooling we started seeing snow in the high mountains. This is a photo taken driving along Freemont Pass on my way back to Leadville from Summit County the first weekend in September.
Brian's first Elk Hunting season was Sept. 14 through Sept. 20. He was in an area just southwest of Leadville, near Granite and Twin Lakes, and had some great opportunities to get one. There was a lot of activity, and Brian learned a ton. He was out before dawn, usually around 5:00am. He plans to buy an over the counter tag and maybe do some more hunting with Jacob, in the next several weeks. Hopefully between the two of them they'll get one. Here's some pics of the Aspen's changing color to that beautiful gold.
Ok, this is after my co-worker's Baby Shower, just after we got home thought we'd take some updated photos. I wish I had another one of us on a mountain top, but we've been busy in town.
Look at how much snow Mt. Elbert has already! This was taken Sept. 22, SO beautiful. Brian is ready to go skiing, like right now!
Here's the snow we got in town from the early week's storm.
We just added heavy plastic sheeting to the chicken's run, to protect them from snow & wind. We also replaced the heating light bulb with a green one...we'll see how that works, it looks like they're watching TV. OH! and also we've been getting about 3 eggs a day now, since the last week of August! So cool, they are a really pretty brown color, still on the small side, but very tasty!
Brian found this partial fencing at the dump, so we could enclose an area for the chickens to roam around in and eat bugs and green grass. Besides the chicken food we buy, we also give them scrap lettuce, kale, pac choy, and whatever other greens are wilting from our veggie share. We think they're pretty happy chickens!
Our deck is a little disheveled currently as we're using chairs to block off when the chickens roam in the yard.
Ski season is just around the corner!
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