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Checking with RMG folks about the weather down here will definitely be more informative than anything you'll find on THAT channel, Digit! In my opinion, the weather channel is all but useless if you're looking for anything west of the Mississippi! It used to be the only way I had to try to get weather info on a layover when I was still flying, and I finally just gave up and stopped watching it after I came to the conclusion that the only weather that was important to them occurred on the east coast! I'm just a little way south of Barb, and, like her, I had quite the light show here! Lightening and thunder are the ONLY things I miss from growing up in Illinois, so it was fun to watch! I was watching radar much of the time, and the first batch of storms--the ones that hit parts of Arvada badly--moved straight down the west side of I-25, which is about two miles west of me. Didn't even get more than a little very light rain here with those storms! Then it looked like it cleared out and I was thinking it was gone for the evening, but around midnite another whole batch moved thru with less lightening, but with some actual RAIN! The wind seemed to be blowing from all four directions, so I had to close ALL of the windows and it got pretty stuffy in the house, but I DID get 4/10" of rain! Hallelujah!!! Amazing how GREEN everything looks after a decent rain! No hail, and very windy, but nothing extreme! This has nothing to do with yesterday's weather, but I've been researching info about reforesting burn areas in the far southwest corner of the state and I've found some info I didn't know before, and I thought it was interesting---and Digit doesn't usually mind if you "change the subject!" I discovered that the monsoon Barb mentioned is called the North American Monsoon, or, alternately, the Arizona Monsoon! We always talk about monsoons, but I never knew it was a real live Official Thing--with a NAME! It normally starts right around now--if it's gonna start at all in any particular year!--and should be winding down by the end of August and "gone with the wind" by the end of September. It looks like it's ramping up to be pretty good this year--good news for David and all the other folks down in the Cortez area, which is still considered to be in a severe drought. The map below is the July/August/September precip outlook for the US, and it really is lookin' good for western Colorado! Looks like somebody's prayers to the Rain Gods have been answered! And something else I found that I never would have believed if I hadn't found it on both NOAA and the USGS! The average annual rainfall on the mesa tops at Mesa Verde is just over EIGHTEEN inches a year! Whoda thunk! I'm sure that's been way down with the recent drought years, but even in a "normal" year I never would have guessed that! And something else--which has NOTHING to do with weather! Mesa Verde isn't really Mesa Verde! It's Cuesta Verde! The "mesas" at Mesa Verde--not just the National Park, but the whole "area" of "mesas" which go all the way down to the New Mexico border, of which the Natl. Park is only a small part--is not a "mesa." A mesa is an "isolated flat-top hill with steep sides! "Mesa Verde" is flat on top and has "steep sides" on the north side, but from the high point on the north side it slopes down gently to the south--the "mesas" just south of the Natl. Park are 300-500' lower than the main ruins at Mesa Verde! And that's what a cuesta [kwes-ta] is! So now I know that since the mid 60s I've actually been going to Cuesta Verde, and not Mesa Verde! Ok! Maybe nobody else thinks that's interesting--but I thought it was! And, hopefully, if the predicted rain happens it'll all start to become greener again--or would that be more verde-nt, and the baby trees in the burn areas will start to get going better again and have an easier life! I'll go away now, Skybird Here is a link that might be useful:

Thanks! I believe you're right. Looks exactly like it. Guess a pair of gloves and a few minutes will get rid of it. Not responsive to pre-em since it grows from the thatch, but I'll cut my grass a bit taller to help prevent recurrence.

I've been using the glucosamine for over a couple of years now, I think - it helped my right shoulder a lot, as I was having trouble reaching up ...out sideways ... and back. There was, easing in, quite a lot of improvement for quite a while, but the difficulties are returning some. I think that the term that I intended for between the bones where they come together was "cartilage". I got the diuretic pills refill yesterday, so am good to go with them for a while. ole joyful ...who just went on "the pill"s about four years ago ... at something of an advanced age