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Here is my list of the top 101 things I miss about Colorado (not necessarily in this order):

1. Mom
2. My family
3. Joy
4. Privacy
5. My friends
6. High speed internet
7. Our house
8. Our hot tub
9. A real bed
10. Television
11. Running water
12. Electricity on demand
13. Warm water
14. Sprite (my fish)
15. Having more than one room in a house
16. Dry air
17. Sunshine
18. Sunsets
19. Bowling
20. The darkness of night that lasts longer than two hours.
21. Happiness (just kidding) ....  Mrs. Holt and her dog Panda
22. Woodies Pizza
23. Denver
24. The Denver Museum of Nature and Science
25. The Tattered Cover bookstore
26. 16th Street Mall
27. Big box stores like Walmart, Target, and Safeway
28. The rocks near our house
29. Foxes
30. Elk
31. Red Rocks Amphitheater
32. Bluebirds
33. Hummingbirds
34. The horses on Jackpine
35. Alderfer/3-Sisters Park
36. Johns Manville Plaza
37. Light Rail
38. The Denver Center for the Performing Arts
39. Blue Sky
40. The smell after rain (something we don't smell here because it's always raining)
41. Being far from the ocean
42. Being safe from Brown Bear maulings
43. Not having to carry a gun when hiking
44. Not having to carry military grade bear spray when walking to an outhouse
45. A heater that my father isn't stingy about
46. Not having a job
47. Not having to socialize with strangers that pull up to your house
48. Not having a house with the name "Dimples"
49. Not having to dump grey water every few days
50. My swim team
51. Our Turkish rug
52. The dartboard
53. The piano
54. The pool table
55. The foosball table
56. The climbing wall
57. Our own shower
58. Plumbing
59. A Dishwasher
60. Cotton towels
61. A microwave that doesn't shoot sparks every time you use it
62. Not grilling every night of the week
63. Being able to see the stars
64. Being able to see the moon
65. Not having to wear boots every day
66. The mountains
67. The foothills
68. The plains
69. Evergreen Lake
70. The Lakehouse
71. Ice skating
72. Skiing
73. Sledding
74. Netflix
75. Anonymity
76. The lack of biting bugs
77. Bathtub
78. Not having to haul water
79. Costco
80. REI
81. The Apple Store
82. Being able to sleep in
83. More clothes to choose from
84. Pizza
85. Having a wider variety of food
86. Knowing about world events
87. Not having to go to the library for internet
88. Restaurants other than the Stikine Inn and the Diamond C
89. Haircuts
90. Highways
91. Not being surrounded by ocean
92. Not having to host potlucks every Friday
93. Golden
94. The Boulder Tea House
95. Starbucks
96. Chicken Tikka
97. Having an oven and baking with it
98. Having something to do
99. Dying grass
100. Thunder and lightening
101. Our fireplace and woodstove

Here are a couple of photos that I took last night.

Gillnetters on Zimovia Strait

Gillnetters on Zimovia Strait