Up here on the Colorado mountaintop we are proving that you can teach old doggies new tricks. Now that we have mastered the art of filling the cistern and have traded our flip-flops in for hiking boots, life is filled with new forms of wonder. Last week for instance we had the septic pumped out….

Back on the mountain and today’s lessons is why you need to check the cistern  often so you don’t run out of water. Here goes. A cistern is basically a tank that’s in a hole in the ground. The tank needs to be filled so you can do things like flush the toilet, wash dishes,…