|
|
Post by kings6 on Sept 29, 2024 19:52:47 GMT -5
Antelope hunt is over and today is grandsons 10th birthday so we went to a Colorado Rockies baseball game then back to Colorado Spfings where we showered and changed to go to a concert at Ford Amphitheater to listen to For King and Country. The wife wanted that for a 45th anniversary present. Turn off the hearing aids and sit back I guess. Between a MLB game and a concert I have had my fill of people for a few years. Can’t wait to get home to blacktail hunting, woodshop and semi solitude.
|
|
|
|
Post by dougader on Sept 30, 2024 2:27:41 GMT -5
I am not keen on large crowds anymore. Best to you, Robb.
|
|
nicholst55
.375 Atomic
Retired, twice.
Posts: 1,142
|
Post by nicholst55 on Sept 30, 2024 3:41:51 GMT -5
Never did enjoy large crowds, even before they became potential terrorist targets.
|
|
sharps4590
.30 Stingray
I'm a Christian first, husband and father next then a patriotic, veteran, firearms aficionado.
Posts: 361
|
Post by sharps4590 on Sept 30, 2024 6:08:39 GMT -5
Other than church, which is a crowd of about 50, I have to agree. I simply don't go elsewhere, sometimes to the chagrin of my wife of 46 years but that's ok. She can go, I ain't.
|
|
|
|
Post by bula on Sept 30, 2024 6:56:00 GMT -5
Same. We'll discuss places to go, things to do. We rate them by how people-y they will be, and our capacity is at the moment for people-y things. We go to smaller festivals now, instead of the bigger county fairs, etc.. I still sometimes go to the hills, without inviting anyone. Might tomorrow.
|
|
|
|
Post by 45MAN on Sept 30, 2024 7:41:49 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Post by bigbrowndog on Sept 30, 2024 8:27:42 GMT -5
I can tolerate crowded events more if I’m with like minded folks as myself, but not big city crowds, street festivals, and concerts. Small town festivals and rodeos are about all I care for much anymore and them only in moderation and if I can carry. After 28 years of dealing with stupid people, those big people attractors seem to pull stupid people together and I have little to no patience for them. 28 SXSW week long festivals allows a close up look at the majorly clueless mindset of a large percentage our current batch of young folk.
Trapr
|
|
|
|
Post by longoval on Sept 30, 2024 23:45:39 GMT -5
I was in CO Springs yesterday, and this morning as well.
Drove up from South Texas. Transmission trouble upon arrival. Family of six, oldest child is six, youngest 7 months. Had to drop off our SUV at a transmission shop and rent a van to continue on to Breckenridge. Hoping for the best. Just want to get back home in our vehicle in time to go back to work as scheduled.
God is in control. To Him alone be the glory. Still hard not to stress about it.
|
|
|
|
Post by squawberryman on Oct 1, 2024 7:07:31 GMT -5
Taking my wife to see CeCe Winans in March that's about the limit for me. Give me one friend and a million trees and I'm good.
|
|
|
|
Post by kings6 on Oct 1, 2024 7:22:57 GMT -5
Leave the overcrowded CO Springs this morning with the wife and head for Rockie Mnt. NP then back to Oregon. Just her and I for a few days will be nice!
|
|
|
|
Post by rangersedge on Oct 1, 2024 8:14:35 GMT -5
Longoval: Sounds like you have a neat young family. Take a few moments to enjoy those hectic years! Kids grow up fast and you'll miss those times.
Kings6: Count me in with your no fan of crowds group. I'm in a position where I have to deal with groups of people; but I've never liked it. Whenever retirement comes, I could easily go the hermit route.
P.S. Got married out by Colorado Springs.
|
|
|
|
Post by doninnh on Oct 1, 2024 11:44:06 GMT -5
Well: 1961 to 1966 I was stationed at a small radar site in LaJunta CO. The area south of Denver was sort of
slow and easy mostly because of the ranch and farm base, some railroad, a old steel mill had been kept alive
by WWII. I returned to the East in 1966 were over the next few years while living in a small town in NH you would
see people moving to NH to get away from the high taxes and stuff of the Boston area. Some would go to Town Meeting
and complain they did not have curbing and street lights. I admire the people that thrive where you have to fix your
own or trade with your next door guy or gal that might be a great fixer of this or that.
Have a nice day Don K.
|
|
|
|
Post by ridenshoot on Oct 1, 2024 12:29:53 GMT -5
Well: 1961 to 1966 I was stationed at a small radar site in LaJunta CO. The area south of Denver was sort of slow and easy mostly because of the ranch and farm base, some railroad, a old steel mill had been kept alive by WWII. I returned to the East in 1966 were over the next few years while living in a small town in NH you would see people moving to NH to get away from the high taxes and stuff of the Boston area. Some would go to Town Meeting and complain they did not have curbing and street lights. I admire the people that thrive where you have to fix your own or trade with your next door guy or gal that might be a great fixer of this or that. Have a nice day Don K. Lived in La Junta for 20 years, left there about 10 years ago and miss it badly. Wonderful people; ranchers, farmers, just plain good folk and few of them, wonderful place to raise a family. Small world isn't it! |
|
Fowler
.401 Bobcat
Posts: 3,670
|
Post by Fowler on Oct 1, 2024 13:34:03 GMT -5
Leave the overcrowded CO Springs this morning with the wife and head for Rockie Mnt. NP then back to Oregon. Just her and I for a few days will be nice! See a phone call and I could have taken you and the misses to lunch. Enjoy RMNP it is always a good time, Im sure the elk rut is slowing up there but I bet they are not done. Just check the golf course on the west side of town... |
|
|
|
Post by kings6 on Oct 1, 2024 18:49:32 GMT -5
We had a pass for Bear Creek Rd and there were three 6 point bulls with harems just screaming at each others all within 200 in the main meadow. Renay got a textbook real life lesson in elk behavior! A little further up the meadow was a big single bull that was 8 points on the left and all he had left on the right was the bottom two brow times. The rest of the bean snapped off from fighting. Lots of bugling and cow talk just a couple hundred yards from the rock we were watching from.
|
|
