17 days to go

The weather most of this week has been gorgeous.
Today it is actually hot!

I have my Precinct Captain hat on now. The County
Clerk's office has been doing a great job of updating
the voter register as they issue mail-in ballots and
as they receive them. I, so far, have been calling
people whose ballots were mailed on October 3 and who
have not yet voted, reminding them to get their
ballots in and that as soon as that happens the
phone calls should cease! Our precinct profile
is interesting, I think. We have 338 registered
Democrats, 49 Republicans and 291 unaffiliated. Robert
is 1 of 6 in his age group and I am 1 of 29. The
largest group are the 51-60 year group. There are
194 of them and 149 of the 41- 50 year group.

I'm working on the unaffiliated for the most part.
Not only urging them to vote, but urging them to
vote for Obama, Udall and Polis. I also give them
reasons, if they are interested and answer questions
about the ballot initiatives. We have a dozen
issues to become Constitutional Amendments and 2 of
them are very deceptive. One, defines "person" as
existing at the moment of conception! You can
imagine the many ramifications that would have. If
you do something that might possibly harm a fetus,
perhaps you don't even know you are pregnant, bu
the fetus is harmed...you may be prosecuted! There
are 300 places in our Constitution where "person"
is used. The other bad one purports to be an
Amendment that would protect equal rights, but the
wording is such that many programs for minorities
would be in jeopardy as well as any hiring practice
that might be perceived as affirming one race over
others. In each case the wording makes them sound
innocuous.

Last Sunday evening we went to Gordon Gamm's home for
a discussion of two movies he showed. One was on
Constitutional reform by two law professors that I found
very interesting; the other was an Islamic Terrorist
who was being interviewed from jail. He was so over
the top that it was hard to pay attention. The
discussion was fun and the food, as usual delightful.

Wednesday we took the truck up the Church Road to
the junction and parked it and hiked up the road.
We were checking to see if the sign, "Anyone proceeding
past this sign agrees to being video taped." It's
still there. The County has said they would take it
down. They also would take down the sign on the gate
at the top, near Sunshine Canyon that says, Private
Road, No Trespassing. It is not a private road. It
is an un-maintained County road. Anyway, we had a
lovely walk in the woods despite the barking of the
dogs in the "rescue" kennel.

After our walk Robert took down three trees and sawed
them into 8 foot lengths. I threw brush and helped
him load the logs into the truck. It feels good to
be getting our own wood. This is next winter's wood.
It is much too green for this winter. While we were
up there one of our neighbors cam by and Robert suggested
that if needed wood he could help us sometime and
he could have half the wood. He though that was a
great idea so tomorrow, weather permitting, we'll
go back up to get another load.

Thursday evening Robert went to his Cosmology Book
Club. He seems to enjoy that and I gather they
have great discussions.

Last night we went to a concert at the schoolhouse.
The Little Church in the Pines is still being
renovated. The group was "Finders and Youngbert."
They are bluegrass musicians and really good. It
was an enjoyable concert. It's really a treat to
be able to just walk up the road and go to a first
class bluegrass concert. There were about 40
people there so it wasn't a sell-out crowd, but it
was a very lively one.

This morning a young woman came up to have Robert
escort her to the Salina Cemetery. There have
been problems with the owner of the property such
that people are afraid to go up there, but he has
given Robert permission to go and to bring friends
and/or relatives. Pam's memorial stone and ashes
are in that cemetery. Dina is putting together a
files to be posted on-line at interment.com. One
file per cemetery. She's trying to do all the
cemeteries in Boulder County. Each file will contain
photographs and all the information she can gather
of the people interred there.


Later today, Bob Gray is coming to help Robert move the
60 batteries we brought back from Gothic up to the
Solar Hut. Actually, Robert has already moved 10,
I believe. Bob has promised his wonderful chocolate
cake and I have promised dinner.