Warm Saturday – Finally

Finally, we have a warm weekend to get out and enjoy the outdoors. Here in Denver, it has felt like Winter was never going to end (it snowed just two days back). But now it is about eighty degrees Fahrenheit and it feels good to get out and breath warm air.

I just finished mowing the lawn and once again I am wondering why we try to grow grass up here in the high country (we are over 5,300 feet above sea level). If there was some big calamity and all the people left the area, the first thing that would die is the grass. It would turn hard like straw and would blow away into nearby Nebraska (where sales of claritin would probably skyrocket).

Why do we spend all this money to grow something flat and green? Since all the fancy irrigation systems are already setup, why don’t we just grow something we can eat or at least feed somebody (or turn into bio-diesel like all the farmers tried to do with corn and sugar beets)? I’ll just save these ideas as food for thought and maybe some food for those hungry Australians (who at some point with this new drought are going to start eating kangaroos).