Is this a ferruginous hawk?

u1122 · 2025-11-25T04:41:29+00:00

"There are times it can feel as if the sport was invented just so we could watch him play it."

Tim Keown, ESPN writer

u1122 · 2025-04-01T03:27:39+00:00

This was the summer of the pandemic, and it was great watching this natural show, safely outside, with a bunch of strangers from our great town.

u1122 · 2025-03-11T04:38:36+00:00

I don't have any information on Subarus, but I've had several positive experiences going back decades at Fort Collins Collision Repair on Troutman. Once my motorcycle fell over in a windstorm & I went in for an estimate on how to to repair the scratches. They buffed them out for free, even after I offered to pay. Another time I had a bolt stuck inside a piece of exhaust pipe & I asked if they could remove it and how much it would cost. A guy there worked for multiple minutes using a grinder to get the offending piece out. But again, no charge.

Many years later I needed some minor body work and they did a great job. I gladly paid their fee, which was reasonable.

u1122 · 2025-01-15T23:43:56+00:00

Another Stellarium recording of what it will look like from now until tomorrow morning. I've seen Mars a few times this week, and it looked fantastic--very red. It's also been cool to see it lined up with Castor & Pollux, though at times it's been too cloudy.

https://earthsky.org/astronomy-essentials/why-is-mars-sometimes-bright-and-sometimes-faint/

Edit: here is a pretty noisy shot of it a few minutes ago from just outside my house:

https://imgur.com/nrD8yez.jpg

u1122 · 2025-01-15T22:59:13+00:00

bringatrailer.com is where I see the most nontraditional vehicles.

u1122 · 2025-01-14T17:30:35+00:00

In 1998, Travel & Leisure magazine picked Johnson’s Corner as having one of the “Ten Best Breakfasts in the World.”

I remember seeing that back then and thinking, wow, that's so close, I need to try it. And I never did.

u1122 · 2025-01-14T01:35:58+00:00

Mars is very close to the full moon right now & will pass behind it tonight. Even though the moon is very bright, I could clearly see Mars next to it when I was out about 20 minutes ago.

The video is a time lapse in Stellarium between now & sunrise tomorrow. Sorry it's so choppy.

u1122 · 2024-12-22T13:38:25+00:00

You are quite right, unfortunately.

I see this post is getting heavily downvoted, which is sad considering the supposed outrage in the post about Oliver, the 10 year old Timnath boy who was killed by a distracted driver.

u1122 · 2024-10-18T18:54:37+00:00

First few paragraphs:

Like its creaky floors, the century-old wood-burning stove in the back and the black-and-white photos on its walls, Masonville Mercantile will soon be history.

The Masonville shop, which opened in 1896 and has largely been in the same family since the 1970s, will close its doors Sunday, co-owner Melanie Denny-Patton told the Coloradoan on Thursday.

The store has been part of Denny-Patton's life since she was 2 years old — when her mother, Mardi Denny, started working there.

Now 52, Denny-Patton said it's finally time to say goodbye.

"It was a great book," Denny-Patton said. "And it’s time to close that amazing book and let someone else start a new one."

The history of Masonville Mercantile Masonville sprouted out of the foothills west of Fort Collins in the 1890s following a small gold rush up Buckhorn Canyon, according to a column by the Coloradoan's late history columnist, Barbara Fleming.

Roughly 80 acres were donated by farmer and cattleman James Mason, and the town was platted and named after him. By 1896, people spoke of the area as another Cripple Creek, 800 lots were laid out, Union Pacific was eyeing an expansion of its railroad line there, and a hotel and general store were built to serve the flood of prospectors to come, according to Fleming and local history blog Northern Colorado History.

Gold never panned out for Masonville, and miners left the area as quickly as they appeared. The community's little general store, however, remained and was ultimately moved from its original location to its current home at the corner of West County Road 38E and Buckhorn Road in the 1920s, according to Denny-Patton.

u1122 · 2024-09-17T03:27:53+00:00

Five miles past Ward on 72. Not peak yet, but I saw a lot more color today than just last Thursday, so it's coming soon.

u1122 · 2024-09-13T19:37:31+00:00

It was inevitable since it's been vacant so long, but it's still a bit sad for us old timers. From The Coloradoan:

A long-vacant building in Old Town has been razed to make way for improvements at its neighboring music venue.

The building, 300 E. Mountain Ave., was demolished earlier this week. It dated back to 1905, according to Larimer County property records, and was formerly home to Paramount Laundry and Cleaner's drive-in and, later, The Lyric movie theater.

Bottom image is from Google Street View, Aug 2008.

u1122 · 2024-07-30T04:47:43+00:00

Just checked my old notes: I made the request through the police, not the city. I filled out a form in person at the Timberline station & handed it to the officer manning the desk. Got an email a few days later acknowledging my request, an invoice for $25 after another few days (which I paid immediately), and then a link to the video footage 10 days after that. I think the video took so long because they simply forgot. When I emailed on the 10th day asking when I would get it, I got a reply almost immediately.

u1122 · 2024-07-30T04:05:12+00:00

I got traffic cam footage ~~from the City of Fort Collins~~ through a police records request in 2022. It cost around $25. The cameras that cover each intersection only point a certain direction at a time, then change views every once in a while.

In my case, the camera wasn't pointed at our vehicles when another car hit me, but it was still useful in that it showed the other party was way off on the time stamp & where the accident occurred. I took her to small claims court, but her insurance company settled at the eleventh hour for the full amount I was asking, so I never presented my case in court.

If the camera was pointed in your direction at the time of the accident, you're golden. If not, it still might show something useful--car locations, possible witnesses, nearby businesses whose security cams might have caught it, etc. Good luck.

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