Parents Weekend

Hi,

I am actually putting our e-mail correspondence in my book of floyd blog.  I do that from time to time.  This is one of those times.

So things went better than anticipated with her but I gotta be careful not to read anything into "what ever happened up there."

I got this text from her as I was getting just approaching the peaks from the north:

"Hi. We made it home. Coulda made it in 5.5 hrs but we stopped and ate. It was a fun weekend."

We will now do an analysis of the text.  "What could it possibly?" mean we are wondering.

The first part seems fairly straight forward "Hi."  A salutation.  The salutation precedes the rest of the text.  It is short for "Hello"  She could have just started in with, "We made it home. . . "  but instead she delivers a salutation as her point of entry into a correspondence.  I think in this case, the "Hi." signals to me  that she is starting the beginning of a new correspondence "thread" if you will. . . 

Right now you are probably thinking. "Oh no, he might be over thinking this a bit?"  If it were me I would be thinking, "You gotta effing be kidding me!"  (Since you're going off to be a Nun for 6 months I will hold back on the curse words, especially the Ef bombs.  Although when I say "effing" you are thinking "fucking" so I am not sure how sensitive I am really being.)  I was just joking with that amount of detail. Sooooo.....

I will abbreviate the analysis to:

1.) She sent me a text she was home.

2.) She told me about the time it took

3.) She said it was a fun weekend

1.) She didn't have to text and usually doesn't (sometimes she does sometimes she doesn't - send me a text that is) So this doesn't really mean anything.

2.) We had talked about the time it takes to get to Durango from each place (Boulder and Flag)  I have said in the past that it takes 5 hours from Flag.  I always thought Flag was closer.  She believes it takes the same time - This second statement may be an indication of a little "rivalry" between us.  (By the way it took me 4.75 hours to get from Durango to Flag.  I did not point that out to her. She actually is a bit competitive.  I do not want to bring that up.

3.) She has mentioned she has had good times in our "family outings" in the past so this does not mean much.

Conclusion:  She happened to remember to text me so she did.  Basically the text really doesn't mean anything at all other than the information it communicates.

The biggest thing that happened over the weekend was the picture.  The boys and I walked down this "slew."  That is what we were calling it.  It was actually an aqueduct.  Basically it is a wooden trough that carries water from Cascade Creek to a "tunnel" further down the hill side.  Across the top, joists span the trough from side to side and are spaced about a foot apart.  Running across these joists are three two by six planks arranged side by side to form a walk way on top of and down the center of the trough.  

We walked down the aqueduct to the source (Cascade Creek) which was about a quarter mile.  And then we walked back.  We were just coming off the duct and She was standing there with her phone in the "camera - picture taking position."  I started to exit the field of view and she said, "No, get back in.  I want to get a picture of you guys."  That felt good.

When we got back to the air bnb she wanted to go for an interpretive hike up by the college.  Of course, none of the boys wanted to do that.  I wanted to go for a hike along the river and the train tracks to get some more video and pictures of the train.  The kids wanted to go with me.  This, of course, made me feel good.  And I think it may have had an affect on her.  Basically, it was the boys going out to play on the railroad tracks.  And so we did and it was fun.   I did get some more cool pictures.

I eventually got a text from her asking where we had gone - mean she was back from her hike.  The train had just gone by and I got more video and pictures and we went out to eat.  That was also fun.  I did end up having two beers as I told you on the phone and they hit me pretty hard.  She can handle that a lot better than I can.  There is no way I could have driven.  But we had a really good time that night. 

That's All

Peace Out