Life on the High Plains

August has been a crazy month dominated by our travels to Europe.  This time we chose to go to Eastern Europe because we'd never visited these former Eastern Block countries.  The starting point was Bucharest, Romania. After a long day's travel we made it to our hotel.  Much to our delight across the street was this magnificent building.  It was closed by the time we arrived, but we took a walk after dinner to look through the gates and grab some pics.  It's the National Cathedral of Romania and is also known as the People's Salvation Cathedral.  It is tallest (410 ft.) and largest  Christian Eastern Orthodox Cathedral by volume and area in the world.  It can hold up to 5,000 people in the nave and 23,000 on the esplanade. This smaller building in front of the cathedral is the Ascension of the Lord Chapel built in 2011 as a place to worship while the cathedral was being built.  As we were standing there looking through the gate someone opened...

It's that time of year again--time to take the horses in for their annual exam, vaccinations, and teeth floating.  We used to have the vet come out to our property for all this stuff, but as the horses have aged they need the metal stocks in the vet barn to lean on while they're sedated. We always get very tense when it's time to load them in the trailer.  We never go how it will go--will be out there for an hour trying to convince two 1,000 lb. creatures to jump into the trailer?  Fortunately, this morning they decided to jump right in so we were ready to go an half hour earlier than we had planned. Doc, our buckskin gelding, got to go first.  First they take vitals.  Then the vet starts with the sedation so it has time to take affect before she starts grinding on his teeth.  Doc is the lightweight with sedation, one dose and he's asleep on his feet within minutes.  After the float is complete the vet administers their vaccinations.  The hard par...

There was only one thing my hubby wanted for his birthday this year--to attend the AC/DC concert in Denver.  I reluctantly bought the tickets many months ago and although I was dreading it, I was going to be a good sport about attending.  At one point I even called and upgraded to much better seats. First stop of the evening was for margaritas and enchiladas.  I'm not really fond of stadium food and preferred to eat before arriving at the stadium. Everyone was in good spirits when we arrived at Empower Field at Mile High. We chose to arrive after the opening act, Pretty Reckless, but we caught the tail end of her show which included a lot of screaming. I'm only sharing a couple short clips from the evening.  (I hope I don't get a copyright infringement from You tube.) Let me tell you, these old guys could put most younger people to shame.  For two hours straight with only quick hydration and oxygen breaks, they ran up and down that stage.  Brian Johnso...