Tuesday, August 27th - Look a blog!!

Well the summer is almost over and we move on to my favorite season FALL!   
It has been a fun summer spending time with our friends and family. It has also been a wet summer, we have had lots of rain in comparison to other summers.
Of course Jesse and I have worked and it is almost over. I only have 2 more days to work and Jesse may have three.
Some of the summer highlight's:
Dinner at Juniper Valley Ranch Family Restaurant

Marian had a birthday:

We went to a Melodrama

Sondra visits, she spent a week with us and we spent lots of time just relaxing.

We all took a ride to Salida along side the Arkansas River. We saw several rafters and even some firefighters practicing swift water rescue.

 

We had lunch in Salida and walked around some of the shops.

Chuck and Colette visit and we played games.

 

Our plan is to leave Colorado on Sept. 4th. We will head to Knob Noster, Missouri  to visit our friends Bob and Janet for a few days then on to Maryland. We will stay there for about 1 month then back to Amazon.com.
We need to earn some money for our trip next summer to Alaska!!

Monday, June 24 – Day with the Meacham’s (Colorado Springs)

 

We had a cook-out at our place and our guests of honor were Ellie and Jim.

It was really nice to visit with them and we are so glad to be able to spend time with them before the leave Colorado heading to Gillette to attend the Escapee’s rally. Safe travels dear friends!

 

Of course we had to share our food with Bob (aka Andy) and Janet.

 

We all brought a dish to share and our own meat to grill. Everything was yummy and I am sure no one left hungry.

Last Sunday we had the kids over for Father’s day. It rained and was cold out that day so we moved the group inside. Adam could not join us as he was helping to fight the fire at Black Forest.

 

We had a really big rain/hail storm last week. Here are some of the pictures I took.

And a river ran through it.

We haven’t done anything else exciting, just working and hanging out at the campground.

 

Yesterday Jesse met a guy in Gunnison and they traded trucks.

We now own a 2001 Red Ford Truck with a western hauler bed. It is much better then the Volvo and I can drive this one!!

Tuesday, June 11th – Working, Family and Friends (Colorado Springs, CO)

 

I know it’s been awhile since I have blogged. Since I started working full time it’s really hard to find time to get everything done. We have spent time with family and friend and that is much more important to me then blogging.

Starting with the most recent I will try to give you some idea what we have been doing.

Today Marilyn and I went into CO Springs to do some shopping. Then we met our guys at Panera for lunch. Always good food.

Sunday we met Ed and Marilyn and Mike & Marian at Pizzaria Rustica for lunch. Bob and Janet drove with us.

 

We had a great time with our friend and Bob and Janet were the life of the party. 

We had Colt staying with us for 4 days last week. I really understand why we have children while we are young.

He really made Grampy, Bayer and Buddy very tired.

We were very happy to see E&M arrive and we had a cook-out to celebrate.

We helped our granddaughter Kacie celebrate her graduation.

We spent a girls day out shopping and lunch the day after, just Beth, Kacie and me. It was much fun. The next day Kacie was going on a cruise with her friend and her friends parents to Alaska.

Jesse spends most od his working hours either driving to Canyon City for water or to the rock quarry for rock and dirt.

Pics of the quarry

We had the family over on Memorial Day for a cook-out fun day!

The Haman men working on the grill.

Our beautiful daughter

Hummingbird feeder and squirrel having a good time eating.

We were very happy that Howard and Linda came to Mountaindale to visit with us. It was wonderful spending time with them. We had several dinners together and played games.

Look at the beautiful rainbow!!

I am sure that I have left things out, but this gives you some idea what has been happening here in the Rocky Mountains. As Ed would say LIFE IS GOOD!!