After the gym this morning, we decided we’d take a run over to Aspen. Jag loves this cologne from Louis Vuitton, and we get his bottle refilled once a year. Speaking of Aspen, how about this! Four South Americans (nice way of saying illegal immigrants) were busted breaking into a high-end watch shop by breaking into an art gallery and then breaking through a wall into another adjacent business and then breaking through their wall to get into the watch shop. They were caught in Vail and are now awaiting a hearing tomorrow. Up here, we have cash bail only for these guys. Not like down in Denver. They’re part of a criminal gang that comes to all parts of the U.S. on temporary visas for the sole purpose of robbing some place, (business or residential) and then they run back to their own Country. Glad we caught them. Just goes to show you, no place is safe anymore thanks to the Biden Harris administration’s policy. We now set our alarm at night when we sleep, put The Club on our cars in the driveway, and are always close to something that goes bang in case we’re ever broken into. Man, I miss the 70’s. Bring on President Trump!
Yesterday also marked the 160th year anniversary of the darkest day in the history of Colorado. The Sand Creek Massacre on November 29th, 1864, was when the army slaughtered men, women and children without warning or reason about 180 miles southeast of Denver.
At dawn 160 years ago, Col. John Chivington led 700 cavalry troops in a surprise attack on peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians along Sand Creek.
Even though Cheyenne Chief Black Kettle raised an American flag and a white flag to signal peace, Chivington and his men galloped into the camp and killed 230 Indians, two-thirds of them women, children and elderly.
That attack has been described as “an atrocious massacre” and an “act of barbarity.” One writer said it was impossible to believe men could “butcher and mutilate human beings as they did.” Hard to believe what humans can do to one another. One of my favorite movies since I was a kid is Soldier Blue with Candace Bergen and Peter Strauss. You can still watch it on Netflix or Prime. Good movie and has to do with this sad part of history. Check it out, it’s entertaining too. Just a bit of history and my way of not forgetting these people who we displaced and annihilated from their ancestorial home a century and a half ago. Of course, the government justified it back then being for the greater good, just as they do these days when they want something. You think we as people would learn, right?
It’s pretty outside, much as it was a hundred years ago or more. The pink sky is rising above the snow-covered ground and the animals that call it home, are waking up to start their day. As you know, we have lots of birds and elk and deer and yesterday Lori saw either a fox or coyote run across the backyard.
We need to feed Juno and Tux and put out our trash along with Davy’s and Dea and Nate’s on the other side of us. They’re all out of town until tomorrow. When Lori went up to Davy’s yesterday, she discovered their breaker had tripped off as the house was 53 degrees. She managed to get it fixed, (she’s a fixer) and it was 64 when we went back up later last night.
I found some cool things for the boys for Christmas yesterday. Most of my shopping is on-line these days. I ordered something really special (can’t say what as Lori reads this!) for my lovely wife about six months ago. I’m probably more excited about it than she’ll ever be, but it’s really cool. I’m pretty sure she’ll like it. I am the best shopper in the family, ha. I’ll even shop for myself and then give stuff to Lori to wrap and give me. Also found something really cool for my little sis, but can’t give any clues.
That’s it, 7am now and time to get going. Last day of November, enjoy and God Bless.