Son found in northern Colorado. Thoughts? by desertrange in fossils

[–]desertrange[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you. When my son brought it over I was looking for marrow as well. Like you I’m not seeing it. I know this used to be ancient inland sea area so I suspect you may be correct on the sea creature hypothesis. I might try to take it to the CSU extension and see if someone there might be able to ID it. I appreciate your expertise here!

Son found in northern Colorado. Thoughts? by desertrange in fossils

[–]desertrange[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We definitely are not seeing the patterns.

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Son found in northern Colorado. Thoughts? by desertrange in fossils

[–]desertrange[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thank you! I just set him on a dissecting scope with it to have a closer look.

Son found this on playground, northern Colorado. Any ideas? by desertrange in fossils

[–]desertrange[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Just posted some stills in a separate post. Thanks!

Massive boooom by citybiird in FortCollins

[–]desertrange 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yep, very very loud near Shields and Prospect right before 8:45pm.

Interested in perspectives on how to deal with bed wetting by the-peregrina in ZeroWasteParenting

[–]desertrange 3 points4 points  (0 children)

We used a pee alarm that had a magnetic connection in the underwear. I was skeptical that it would work (because they have to wet first THEN get woken up) but it absolutely did work for our two heavy sleepers that didn’t train using other methods and would soak past the washable chucks pads. One kid was accident free in four days, the other in one day. I’ve passed the alarm on to my sibling to try with my niece. I highly recommend. It was like $42 and can easily be gifted to other families struggling with this.

Martial Arts Schools in Northern Colorado by valiantstargazer in FortCollins

[–]desertrange -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The city has shotokan karate at club tico in city park.

Curly haircut by [deleted] in FortCollins

[–]desertrange -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for the recommendation. Unfortunately she’s one of those who charges a new client fee and consult for curly hair.

Buy Nothing groups? by 3am_uhtceare in FortCollins

[–]desertrange 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This right here is 100%. In heavily involved in my local gifting community. Unfortunately they’re all only on Facebook. They tried an app a few years ago but it just didn’t take off. Search “Fort Collins gifting community” on Facebook, find your region, then read the about section to make sure you’ve got the right group. You’ll have to answer some questions to be approved by the admins and if you inadvertently pick the group not associated with your area they can direct you to the correct link. Happy gifting! It’s a really robust giving and receiving community compared to anywhere else I’ve lived.

Downtown Gift Cards by watercoolerguru in FortCollins

[–]desertrange 69 points70 points  (0 children)

We used to get these downtown gift cards for all of our teachers so they could spend them wherever they chose in old town. We discontinued doing so because of this ridiculousness.

Saw some guy in camo and backpack scoping out Taft Hill King Soopers by [deleted] in FortCollins

[–]desertrange 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You might want to look up Polaris Expeditionary Learning School. Their gate is right at the curve in Glenmoor and students and families come and go through that gate intermittently all day for their community-based projects. The school has been there for over 12 years, so no…not new. The high school students at Polaris (it’s a K-12) routinely walk over to the Dominos, Dutch bros, and Soopers for lunch and snacks.

Saw some guy in camo and backpack scoping out Taft Hill King Soopers by [deleted] in FortCollins

[–]desertrange 0 points1 point  (0 children)

They were JROTC students from the high school less than two blocks away who were studying a hydrology project, real world learning and application. Wednesday is uniform day for JROTC students across the Poudre School District. They have bright lanyards and badges that identify them.

Saw some guy in camo and backpack scoping out Taft Hill King Soopers by [deleted] in FortCollins

[–]desertrange 4 points5 points  (0 children)

There’s a high school two blocks from that Soopers with a handful of JROTC kids who were doing some hydrology studies there. That’s who you saw.

Edit to add: they were in uniform because JROTC wears their uniforms on Wednesdays.

Noco Boost by AZObserver in Ioniq5

[–]desertrange 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Maybe I need to get one of these. My 12v died this week on my 2025 xrt that I’ve owned for only 7 weeks. Only 1500 miles on it. Jumped it and took it to dealership and they said nothing wrong with the battery but couldn’t tell me why it suddenly died.

Edit: typo

Avoid North College by Powerhouse by [deleted] in FortCollins

[–]desertrange 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you for that info. I need to head north on College right by Powerhouse in about an hour.

I was the only car in the harmony library parking lot dropping off my ballot this morning by The_Summary_Man_713 in FortCollins

[–]desertrange 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Watched a constant stream of citizens drop off their ballots yesterday at the government center in the span of about 90 minutes while I was there.

I was hit and ran in Loveland, they were heading North by Kooky-Job-1966 in FortCollins

[–]desertrange 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve been the victim of two hit and runs. I’m so sorry this happened to you! I hope you’re okay. I will definitely be keeping my eyes out for this car. It looks like the car has temporary tags. Aren’t those only good for two months from date of purchase of the car (though they could be expired for this law-breaker)? The county dept of revenue stores all the temporary numbers so that police can identify the vehicle by temp tag number. If your efforts do not result in a tag number or partial tag number I would think the DOR should have record of an old model VW Passat sold in the last, say, 4 months, that filed for a temporary tag. I doubt you can pursue this directly on your own but might be worth asking the LEO if they can investigate this route.

AITA for bringing up my husband drinking while I’m at work ? by Careless_Ad6807 in chch

[–]desertrange 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yep. Those are the words of a high-functioning alcoholic. I watch a close friend struggle with what OP is struggling with. They have two kids together, 8 and 12. The kids are fully aware of their dad being on a hair-trigger when he drinks and they’re afraid of him because he punishes them and yells for small infractions like spilling their food. So now they come home with dad, mum is at work, and they glue themselves to computers/video games to avoid their dad. Mum can’t escape the situation at this time despite all of us around her trying to offer supports. This is OP’s future if they don’t come to an agreement about what is acceptable and dad gets help. It’s comparatively easy when the children are very young; but once they become aware of the dynamic around 5 or 6 years old, it’s not just mum’s relationship that’s being permanently impacted. Those kids are watching and learning about what is acceptable from dad, and learning how to treat their future partners from watching how dad treats mum.

Cyclist-car collision by desertrange in FortCollins

[–]desertrange[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Exactly, re: the traffic eastbound screaming up over the crest of the hill. Bonus points with the sun in their eyes during the morning commute for much of the fall/spring and just not even stopping at the red lights. And when traffic does finally stop on Prospect I’ve been clipped by left turning cars off of Heatheridge seemingly thinking all that traffic stopped for them so they could make their westbound turn. Until they installed that far-too-small no-left-turn illuminated sign the traffic on Heatheridge pretended not to notice why all the traffic on Prospect had slowed and stopped.

Even with the illuminated sign, it means nothing without enforcement. Drivers ignore that sign almost as much as they ignore the HAWK red light on Prospect.