ASP Stories Ep. 006: 8240: One Family's Life Above the Clouds
Adventure Sports Podcast
Curt Linville
4.6 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 23 December 2017
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Welcome to another ASP Stories bonus episode. We will be having authors read from their books featuring each chapter as a new episode. Think of these bonus episodes as an ongoing audiobook for free. So sit back, relax and enjoy our first book "8240: One Family's Life Above the Clouds" written and recorded by Curt Linville, host of the Adventure Sports Podcast. "8240: One Family's Life Above the Clouds" is the story of a couple, and their infant, escaping the city and relocating to the front range foothills of Colorado as they grow their family and raise children at an elevation of 8240'.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi friends. Thank you for joining us again for the ASP Stories weekend bonus episode. |
| 0:24.3 | Join us on Mondays and Thursdays where we interview amazing guests where they share with us about their adventure sports and the amazing feats that they have done. |
| 0:34.0 | But ASP Stories is where we get to listen in as authors read their adventure stories to us. |
| 0:40.6 | So sit back with your hot cup of tea or coffee and kick off your adventure-filled weekend by listening in while we hear more from ASP Stories. |
| 1:05.5 | So... ASP Stories Spring. Our first spring at 824 seemed far too slow to arrive. March came and went with a few feet of additional snowfall. April showers were all of the snowy variety as well. Finally in May, the big melt began. As much as I |
| 1:14.7 | enjoy the snow, my heart was longing for warm breezes and spring's flowers. Watching the |
| 1:20.2 | snow level shrink was good for my soul. Soon our winter wonderland was transformed into a temporary |
| 1:25.9 | swamp. Since the ground is still frozen when the |
| 1:29.0 | spring thaw begins, the water cannot soak into the soil at first. Instead, pools of water |
| 1:34.2 | gather in every depression and small streamlets flow out of these and down the slope. A few days |
| 1:39.7 | later, the ground does thaw, and what was too hard for a pickaxe back in April becomes a soft, muddy mess. |
| 1:47.3 | Everything dropped during the long winter becomes exposed and covered with mud. |
| 1:52.4 | Layers of dog poop that were hidden in the falling snow all thaw together. |
| 1:56.9 | I find myself shoveling this slop. |
| 1:59.7 | Shoveling the snow was more enjoyable, but the promise of spring gives me energy enough to complete the task. |
| 2:06.0 | There's also the matter of the garbage that the raven scattered during the winter. |
| 2:10.0 | On trash day, these overgrown crows race the garbage collector. They tear holes in garbage bags and dig out all manner of refuse in search of a tasty tidbit. |
| 2:19.1 | The wind is not so picky. |
| 2:21.0 | It carries the material rejected first by the humans and then by the ravens over the snow where it tangles in wild roses and wax current bushes. |
| 2:29.4 | Snow soon hides all this from view until May, that is. |
| 2:32.5 | Spring is cleanup time. I wonder why people continue |
| 2:36.3 | to leave garbage at the end of their drives without trash cans and lids. I feel a five-gallon bucket with |
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