Fun Visit

I got to see some of my favorite cousins a few weeks ago, what a fun visit, although it was too brief, but I'll take what I can get.

They went river rafting down in Buena Vista, which is only an hour or so away from me, so I was able to drive down to meet up with them. They treated me to a wonderful dinner, thanks, and it was just a great time with lots of laughter and stories.

David and Gail's New Home

A few days ago, we went up to see the sculpture exhibit in Loveland, but got there too late for the show, but just in time for family visits. We obviously were on mountain time, a term I use for being a tad bit late often times, and had fun just relaxing and hanging out in Boulder, actually doing laundry but it was a wonderful day. Any time I spend with my daughter is great, it doesn't matter what we do, just spending time together is lots of fun for me. I'd love to spend time with my son as well, but that will have to wait a bit. Actually, we started the day out having an awesome breakfast at Lucille's, a great cajin breakfast place, yum, and thanks to Kim who treated!
This is a picture of the gorgeous view which is Loveland in the distance. What a great place they have, it just has a good feel to it, and it's great that they live so much closer now than when they lived down in Durango.
We stayed and ended up salsa dancing late into the evening, which was a great time too.

Drenched!

OMG! Walking out from work this evening in Denver, I was caught in a major downpour. On my way out I met up with one of the housekeepers and asked if I could have a plastic bag and was thinking I was pretty smart, heh. I ripped the hole in the bottom for my face as usual for those things, and started out. Now the rain was really coming down hard and fast, I only had to walk three blocks, but the water was pretty deep too, I had to walk through over the ankle deep streams of fast running water to get out to my car, I was only half way out to my car and was already soaking wet to the core. The hail started hurting my head and the wind caught the plastic bag and blew it off me, so I put it back on me, after getting more wet, but still felt a bit protected.
After making it out to the car, driving home with all of the water on the road was slow going but everything is good. I couldn't wait to get home and peel off the soaked clothing and get into something dry. It's dry here at home, it was only raining in Denver.
Wish the rain would fall in my neck of the woods....

The Squirrel Is Winning This First Round

Well, things are kind of on hold, my big ladder isn't tall enough to reach the north side of the house. Even climbing as high as the second to the top step. I still need about 5 or 7 more feet.

Yeah, I'm able to still work on a few other areas, but I can't reach the big hole that the squirrel is currently living in to deal with it, and that's killing me. I do plan to see if I can extend the ladder safely, I'll be checking on that next week. For now I'll just finish a few other areas, and start checking into who I can enlist to reach the areas that I can't. My knee was starting to hurt me, so I felt a bit nervous climbing up the ladder so worked on the decking today.

I truly thought I'd be able to knock out most of all that I had to do on the house, but it's been a slow process. I am very happy with the amount of work that I have accomplished though. It's looking very nice.

Something interesting, much of the higher areas on the siding smelled of old smoke, probably from the fires from years back when I was evacuated. This while no other fires or BBQ's were going on in my canyon either. I hope that all of the two coats of stain help that, and strengthen and protect the siding.

Tomorrow, it's off to buy more stain and more of that expandable foam stuff. I have gone through four 5 gallon cans of stain already of the high end Behr stain. In past years, I've sprayed the stain on, this time around I've been brushing it on pushing the stain into the wood and that seems better at conditioning the wood. Also, in previous years I've only done one coat, this time I'm putting on two coats, what a difference. Many areas were never caulked either, so it's been a good feeling getting that accomplished as well.