Bishops Castle

When I was a kid I *loved* going to bishops castle. Its the most amazing thing to walk around. When I was a kid it was a lot less finished, and they had a haunted house here in October that was *amazing*. Well they dont do the haunted house anymore but its still a really cool place to stop in and visit. 

The Castle:

 A huge chair (Chris is standing so close because all the "seat" of the chair is gone):

 After we went to the castle we continued up the road to a lake on the top of Greenhorn to go fishing, this my friends will probably be my last fishing trip ever. Fuck fishing. I spent 20 minutes fishing and like 3 hours trying to untangle my line. Fishing is just not for me. I didn't come home with ticks so I think I will go back into the woods, but only for hiking and sightseeing reasons.

Fishing in San Isabel

I have already stated that I hate fishing, at the time of this adventure I did not hate it yet, this is one of the five fishing trips we have taken this summer for nothing. We did get to hike a bit though so that was fun.

Aleric:

 Everywhere we go we collect rocks:

Chris sitting by the lake, it was a beautiful day! 

 Us fishing... is it even called fishing if you don't catch anything?!?!?!

Hiking on Greenhorn

Sometime this spring my brother, Aleric and I went hiking up on Greenhorn Mountain. I always thought I liked the mountains but this journey made me question it. I have never seen a tick in my life (I am 27) well on this trip Aleric and I walked out covered in them between the two of us I think we found 7 or 8 of them, so not covered but I don't like it. Aleric did great though, he hiked the whole way up the trail all by himself, David however had to carry him most the way down.

On the way up:

 On the way down:

Yard Work: Project Trees

Last week the weather was nice, the wind was for once not blowing and with temperatures in the 70's and 80's I was not about to sit inside all day so I went outside and gathered up lots and lots of rocks and made rings around my trees with them. They went from this:

To this:

(I have 6 trees that I did but really who wants to see 12 pictures of trees??)

I have added mulch to them to help them retain water better, last year we used straw and while it did help a lot and kept the mouisture in, it looked crappy and blew away. I hope to get my other trees soon so I can keep digging holes and planting them.

And a little ladybug that I was SOOO excited to see!!