Blogorado, Day 1

 

We gathered at the Obligatory Cow Reference for breakfast, nominally at 8 am, but stretching a point for those who were late getting out of bed.  I enjoyed their Western omelet with hash browns, all topped with a generous helping of chile verde, accompanied by sourdough toast and blackberry jam.  My diet is going to be so shot by the end of Blogorado...

We drove out to the farm after breakfast, and spent the morning catching up with each other's news while more arrivals rolled in.  I napped during the afternoon, and by the time I got back to the farm for supper, there were about a dozen of us.  We feasted on lasagna with garlic bread, helpfully accompanied by this year's crop of barn kittens, who were anxious to demonstrate to us that lasagna was, indeed, cat food - just look!  Let us prove it to you!  They're a cute bunch, all bounce and purrs and claws.

Farmgirl introduced Miss D. and I to a very handy gadget:  the Milwaukee M18 Inflator.

It's a heavy-duty tire inflator:  the Farm Family uses it for cars, pickup trucks and farm equipment, and find it very useful.  It may be "too much gun" for occasional use with small cars and urban vehicles, and it's not cheap, but it did a great job of reinflating our SUV's tires and spare wheel very quickly (the change in altitude and temperature dropping their pressure by at least 5 psi overnight).  Even better, you can tell it what pressure you want, and it inflates to that level automatically, eliminating constant checking.  We were seriously impressed, and are thinking of buying one (or its smaller, lower-cost brother, also highly rated by customers) for ourselves.

Saturday morning we'll gather at the Obligatory Cow Reference for our usual breakfast, then it's out to the farm again.  I'm sure the kittens are looking forward to mugging us for half our food once more.  They're cute.

Peter