The Colorado State Open Thread is published at (or around) 7PM Monday evenings for people who have an interest in our great state of Colorado. I always welcome guest contributors, both for stories and for photo contests. Please send me a Kosmail or an email (to colotim2010@ gmail.com) if you have a story or picture.
Nobody identified last week’s photo as a mount of a Jackalope (a high plains cross between an antelope and a jackrabbit). I’m sure there were people who knew, but they just didn’t bother with a comment, so last week’s prize winner of a solid gold brick retrieved from the buried treasure found by Horsetooth Lake west of Fort Collins is… ME!
If you’d like to know more about the jackalope in the photo, you can read the article in the High Country News. Most of the article talks about Wyoming and that may be where most of them are found, but I have it on good authority that they’re also found in Colorado. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.
This week’s photo comes from the pack of animals that we are currently fostering at our house. The contest is to identify what a kitten (pootie), a dog (woozle) and an automobile have in common. The automobile may be any of the wide variety available — jaguar, mustang, ram, charger, eagle, cougar, pinto, impala, barracuda, 2CV, etc. As you gearheads probably noticed, the type of car can either be current or from the past, US or import. Even my car, a VW Touareg, qualifies.
In other animal news, we have had an animal paying us a visit over the weekend. Around 6AM Saturday and Sunday morning, we had a single, so probably male, mountain lion wandering around our house to see what’s going on. He is one Cool Kitty.
Funny, I haven’t seen any bobcats in about a month. I have a feeling they might be giving this guy a wide berth. I’ve seen herds of deer, sometimes as many as a couple of dozen all together, and the elk are returning to Estes Park after spending the coldest months downhill in the “flatlands” of Loveland, Longmont, etc. Down where the fires are worst, though we’ve had a few in the mountains already.
What’s going on in your corner of Colorado? Any news is welcome, and the floor is open...