Colorado has the four main seasons just like most of the country. Winter is the longest season spanning practically six months of the year. The rest of the seasons may be short, but they are still noticeable. Spring and Fall go by very quickly. You can miss them if you’re not paying attention. Summers can last approximately three months and lately they have been extremely hot and dry. Up here in the mountains, we have a few more seasons that the rest of you may not experience. For example, we have Tourist season. We get folks from every corner of the globe. Unfortunately, quite a few of them come from Texas. It used to be two very distinct seasons; Summer Tourism for the campers and hikers and Winter Tourism for the skiers and riders. For the past few years, however, Tourist season has started to feel like it lasts all year round. During the Fall and early Winter we also have Hunting season. This is when a bunch of guys from the Midwest and east coast come up to the mountains to drink Budweiser and try not to kill each other. Some of them can actually distinguish between a deer and an elk. There is one more season that we have to suffer through up here in the mountains. It’s one that all of us would rather not have to experience and it is beginning right now. We call it Earwig season.
These lovely critters start showing up around the middle of July and will stick around through August. They don’t do much harm, but they are incredibly creepy. They have these awful looking pincers on their butt and they will use them. The worst part of these little bugs is that they can fit through the smallest openings and get into places that seem impossible. They crawl around under the baseboards, up the walls, and across the ceiling. Earwigs like dark, damp places, so you usually have some company in the shower. You can try washing them down the drain, but they come back. Just mention earwigs to the folks who live here and all of them will tell you how much they hate them.
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