The learning and loving process has continued during the second month of living in Colorado. Here are just a few of the interesting things that I have learned about living in Colorado in March.

• While all our friends and family from Texas to Florida are busy planting Spring flowers, we are not planting anything. We have been warned by many people that we should not plant new plants until after Mother’s Day. My mother finds this hard to accept and she will be at the plant nursery bright and early on Monday, May 13^th.
• Making U-turns is a daily part of living in Colorado. Thank goodness Subarus can turn on a dime. Yet strangely they do not have U-turn lanes under many of the overpasses.
• It is essential that you pay for a monthly membership to a car wash. If not, you will go broke just trying to keep your car clean. My car must go through the car wash at least twice a week, but many weeks it is there 3 or 4 times.
• In mid-March all the snow from February, in the north facing backyard, had just about melted, when we received yet another significant snowfall. I am sure the Colorado Native and the transplants who have been here a while did not consider it a significant snowfall, but I sure did. As you can see the dogs had to mush their way through the snow.

• Everyone talks about the cost of living in Colorado being expensive, and that is true, but utilities here are very reasonable. Also, in many places here you get one bill for electricity, gas, and water instead of all of those being separate companies sending you a bill.
• Our restaurant adventures in March were much more hit or miss than in February. I have eaten Mexican food in Mexico City, Mexican resort towns, and across Texas. I have had great Mexican food and bad Mexican food, but I do believe that this month we had the worst Mexican food I have had in 50 years. The salsa and seasoning on the meat tasted like a combination of spaghetti sauce and sloppy Joes. But we found a little food truck that turned around our run of bad luck with delicious street tacos. I ate them so quickly that I did not get a picture of beautiful shrimp taco. My daughter pointed out that eating shrimp from a food truck was risky, but I definitely plan on stopping here again for the shrimp tacos!
• I cannot complete this post about Colorado without mentioning that the long-awaited grand opening of Buc-ee’s took place on March… No, we have not made the two-hour journey to check out the Colorado version of Buc-ee’s, but in keeping with tradition the Johnstown location is 74,000 square feet and has 116 gas pumps. From various posts on social media, it is clear that many families made the journey there during Spring Break. We do plan on making a trip there in April or May so that my native Coloradan granddaughter can see a little bit of Texas craziness, or since she is only six months old, so her Oma can buy her a cute outfit with the Buc-ee’s Beaver on it.

Finally, we are one step closer to becoming official residents of the beautiful state of Colorado because we no longer own a house in Texas. The housing market in Colorado is still crazy, we must be ready to purchase a home as soon as we decide it is the one we want.