Not even one month ago I was waiting for the snow to clear to begin doing some outdoor activities; hiking, biking, etc… and now, this week, the weather has taken a new approach to keep me indoors and fat. It’s 85 degrees here! I know, to anyone that lives at...
Conor and I came up with a last minute plan to backpack out to Big Elk Meadows, stay the night, then hike back out through the Button Rock Reservoir and Hall Ranch. It would be a total of roughly 15 miles of hiking but it being broken up over two...
Leaping into the air after breaking a glass bowl in the kitchen is not a good thing. When you come back down, you tend to land in the same area as all the broken glass! Tim found this out the hard way last night. We spent the night in the...
The Trail Blazer’s transmission gave out on Imelda last weekend and with a repair cost in the $4,000 range it was decided to simply replace the aging truck with a newer SUV. Imelda had been talking about getting something with 4WD ever since coming to Colorado, with the snow and...
I have so many travel/activity ideas romping around in my head for this summer that I feel the need to put them on ‘paper’. Many of these activities are the same ones that I think of each summer but continue to pass up when something else, (usually larger and more...
It was 5479 days ago and Imelda and I had just finished our final child birth class that very evening. It was her final day at work that day, having just begun her 3-week maternity leave. We had just completed a late evening walk through the mall and even ate lemon...
This month is a little different than the past few months. It is the first one in which I pretty much sat still for the entire month. This causes a shift in my primary spending… from gasoline to other things. Instead of the normal $300 or more, I only spent...
I decided to go out for another mountain bike ride before a final snow storm worked it’s way through the area mid-week. Only two days after my last mountain bike ride, the original plan was to tackle two other nearby trails, but as is the norm with any plans I...
I have hiked the Picture Rock trail a couple times, and each time I had noticed how great of a Mountain Biking trail it would be. Sunday, I finally tackled it on a bike and it was a fantastic little trail. It is gently uphill for 3 miles to an...
