raucous evening with the college room-mates and partners and kids. retrospecting, eating, discussing, and laughing. meeting some new folks as well: stimulating, into a very late night. bed is sleep-worthy, but sleep doesn’t come so easy in the lateness. the new job possibility seems to find a space in self and mind. a retreat to the mountains after twenty years of urban intellectual activities. time to mull, digest, and re-create the documents of all those times. at the same time, working with children, revealing the wonders of the natural energy systems of the Sangre de Christos.
watch/hear elk rut and bugle in the back yard. a big stag riding herd on a sizable harem of cows. not seen this kind of wild-life action in Golden before. a cow charges big friendly 120-pound Milo, Don’s Rottweiler. Milo retreats fast from the backyard fence — if possessing a tail, it would be between legs.
later in the evening, to top the day off, Natalie loses a tooth while playing with Sonya and Alex in the basement.