I'm on spring break....

[mike_c]

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

on edit-- how come my bouncies aren't bouncing?

[ffm172]

1. then why are you still here?

shouldn't you be on your way to the parties???

[mike_c]

2. nah, I'm a middle aged prof-- parties die a sudden death...

...when the likes of me show up. I'm decompressing for a couple of days before I do a little camping.

[ffm172]

4. LOL

but wouldn't it be fun to scare the college kids like that?

Enjoy your camping trip and don't scare any wild life :)

[MissMarple]

3. Tell me your are at a beach bar posting on DU.

It's warm, sunny, and your drink may have an umbrella.

Here it was 60+ degrees yesterday and sunny, today is wet, snowy and brrr... Springtime in the Rockies.

[Sporadicus]

5. Ever Heard This Song

from National Lampoon's Radio Hour, ca. 1973, sung by a John Denver soundalike.

Christopher Guest, Sean Kelly, and Tony Hendra

I'm stuck in this old city now where living ain't no fun
Where steel and glass and concrete cancel out the wind and sun
And I'm thinking of last winter now
when we walked hand in hand
In the trails of the Colorado Rockies
The wind sang us a lullaby, the snow was thick as cream,
And icicles were chandeliers like crystal in a dream
And the streams were strips of diamond
And the hills were white as snow,
And a bear ate all our soybeans in the night

Oh, Colorado's calling me
From her hillsides and her rivers and her mesas and her trees,
When blizzards snap the power lines
And all the toilets freeze
In December in the Colorado Rockies

We had time and space and freedom,
We had love and peace to spare
Though we ran out of things to smoke and say and eat and wear
And the morning of the avalanche
The Yeti kidnapped Blanche
And took her to his cave up in the Rockies.

Oh, Colorado's calling me
From her glaciers and her canyons and her badlands and ravines,
And infectious hepatitis
Was all that came to stay
In January in the Colorado Rockies

The baby didn't die until we'd burned up all our wood
Considering we ate her raw, she tasted pretty good
Then the fascist health inspectors
Dug us out and mailed us home --
Except for Blanche who wouldn't leave her mate.

Oh, Colorado's calling me
From her mountains and her rivers and her meadows and her trees
They tell me I'll be cured soon
Thawed and ready to return
When it's April in the Colorado Rockies.

[MissMarple]

7. LOL Thanks.

It reminds me of living in the mountains, broken power lines, frozen plumbing and bringing in firewood. And making sure the pantry stayed stocked up. We were snowed in for almost three days in the 80's. Now, the bears usually come in the summer.

It's much better here along the front range, folks were playing golf and wearing shorts yesterday.

[mike_c]

6. well, it is warm and sunny here in NorCal...

...and I have a frosty beer close at hand.

[MissMarple]

8. Now, I'm going to have to turn up the thermostat, round up the

gardening books and open a bottle of California Chardonnay. That will be so much better. :-)