Monthly Archives: June 2011

This has been a pretty leisurely week. Other than window shopping our way through Old Colorado City and a few of Manitou Springs’ shops, eating at some local restaurants and picking up our little generator in Pueblo, we just took … Continue reading →

One of our favorite events last week was a challenging hike (for flatlanders) up the Crags on the back side of Pikes Peak. Our family started going there 30 or more years ago and we always made that hike at … Continue reading →

There have been times this week that I felt like we were in a time warp, back about 28 years to be exact. That was the year we came to Colorado for two weeks of backpacking and camping. After a … Continue reading →

One of our favorite places in the world for summer is Colorado and it is so much fun to see it through the eyes of 11-year-olds for whom it is the first time. Seeing mountains in the distance through the … Continue reading →

Well, we can’t say there was no progress, but the 13th came and went and the building still isn’t finished. We’ve gone from a blank piece of ground to piles of lumber, then stud walls and now…wait for it…metal side … Continue reading →

Once again, we find ourselves in the midst of a construction zone only this time the project is outside, not in our living space. We are having a 30′ x 50′ building built next to the former garage on our … Continue reading →