Halloween Extravaganza in Colorado!
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| Vitamin D for bone health! The green pumpkin featured ominous phrases such as "I smell children" (one of Susanna's creations 😄) |
So actually the main reason for Mom and my visit was to see Nora and Soren's marching band final competition. They performed a show titled "The Siren's Lament". It was very intricate! Light years ahead of what we called halftime shows back in my high school band days!
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| Team colors |
Nora is a senior and plays tuba in this performance (they usually play trombone and bass trombone most of the time though). Soren is a freshman and is one of two snare drummers, which is a pretty prestigious member of the band, I'd say.
Here's a snippet of the show:
After the band performances Saturday it was full-on Halloween mode back at the house:
This is actually just Susanna doing homework. Even when at rest she is apparently a magnet for props and accessories.
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| Ahoy! |
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| I'm gonna need those TPS reports by lunch, that'd be greeeaaat... Characters "Joanna" and "Bill Lumburgh" from family-favorite movie Office Space. |
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| Take note of this fashionable blue cat tunnel... you'll be seeing it again 🤣 |
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| Zany style |
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| Oh hey, it's Cher! |
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| Susanna was very proud of her awesome witch costume! A character from the movie Hocus Pocus. |
Soren was there too. He wasn't much in the holiday spirit though, and that's O.K.
The rest of us, however, might have gone a little... overboard:
Cher "If I Could Turn Back Time"
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(Sorry, I had to break the videos into pieces to upload them here)
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Rick Astley "Never Gonna Give You Up"
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I had a lot of fun editing the videos. It was my first time ever trying that. We all were really tickled with how they turned out!
Well, I'll end with some random landscape shots.
We sell this Bouteloua grass at work. I am a fan of its C-shaped seedheads, which earn it the common name "eyelash grass". Colorado in the winter can be very beautiful with its golden fields and crystal-blue skies.
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| Sun going down behind Pike's Peak |
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So that's what I had in mind in naming this blog, if anyone was wondering.
I really appreciate your reporting and documenting of the few days you were there. Thanks! I also enjoy your natural history observations and subjects. I, too, get a stiff neck staring at landforms, particularly the Southwest, like the Mojave Desert. Driving across a desert, it mostly seems flat. From the air, the flow of wind and water is so much more evident.
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