A Year of Change

Lori is working her butt off! Most days until 9 at night here at home as she’s now scheduling surgeries on top of her regular job. She’s frustrated as she didn’t really get any training so she’s figuring it out on her own. Most companies and people don’t properly train people these days.

We have just enough snow to cover the windshield on the car and that’s it. We’re over snow. I think in two weeks after Ty gets his car back, Lori and I are going to go to Arizona for a weekend. Just need some sun.

We had a good night last night at James. He’s off today for a weekend in California, back Sunday. Lori and I are going to dinner tomorrow with Marty and Melanie for Melanie’s birthday.

I’m working away on our refi. We might actually get it done. We’ll see. We have the appraiser coming out I think February 2nd.

Biden and the dems continue their socialist push against the will of the people. 80% plus of Americans think you should have to have an id to vote but Biden and the dems don’t. In places like Washington D.C., you now have to show your vaccine card and an id to go to a restaurant or the gym but not to vote, wow. Keep up the good fight.

Time to get moving. We’re headed to the gym this morning after we drop Ty at school. Have a great weekend, God Bless.

Today is January 20th! Seems like it was just the 1st. Soon it’ll be Valentine’s Day and then St. Patrick’s Day, April Fool’s Day, Tax Day, ugh, and May Day. Time never stops. In fact, as I’ve said before, the older you get, the faster it goes.

Looks like snow and ice down in Denver. Nice up here. I worked yesterday until about 2:30 and then headed over to Aspen to return a pair of boots. After a quick stop at the grocery store in Basalt, I was home about 6:30. Whole Foods in Basalt was almost empty. My buddy at the meat counter said a truck never showed up. Shelves from the dairy section to produce to the meat department were so bare it was like the store was ransacked. All this from just one truck not showing up. Imagine if they stopped running for just a couple days.

Then you have Biden getting on tv saying how proud he was of the economy, his handling of covid, and everything else in his first year. Even CNN has abandoned him. He talked endlessly about the Ukraine border but never once mentioned our Southern border or the runaway crime across the Country. People are fed up. We’re told to ignore what we see, or don’t see, on the store shelves, ignore the prices at the gas pump, we’re told crime isn’t real and that the Country has never been more united. This guy and the govt. are like misinformed kids, not only wrong, but loud and wrong. They believe just because the say it, it’s true. Well people aren’t buying it. Over half the Country think Biden has dementia and when asked why, he said, “I don’t know”. That pretty much sums him up, he just doesn’t know, about anything. He was arrogant and incompetent at best as he read from a script of pre-determined answers to predetermined softball questions from handpicked reporters. Pretty easy to see as he was fumbling through his papers looking for the scripted answer to every question. Oh and get this, Biden is spending your money sending out masks to 400 million households that can only be used once! Good news is companies from Starbucks to GM reversed their mandate that all employees get vaccinated. Great Britian yesterday announced, no more masks, no vaccine passports, and zero restrictions anywhere in the Country. The whole thing is falling apart on the powers that be, yet the media who is in the back pocket of the administration, keeps pushing this as the apocalypse. People are fed up and no longer buying it.

In Wheat Ridge a couple days ago at the teriyaki restaurant, I saw a guy, his wife and kid eating and his loaded holster was clearly visible under his coat. People are arming themselves and through with this crap. We’re quickly becoming a second or third World country which is by democrat design. Thankfully people are waking up. The other day Pelosi tried to stick in a digital wallet provision into some unrelated obscure bill. This would have all your money eventually be digital and then let’s say you were deemed by the government to be overweight, well your digital wallet wouldn’t let you buy certain foods. Think this is farfetched? Think again. And by the way, Sherrod Brown, a useless democratic senator from Rhode Island reintroduced it yesterday. It’s all about control and the govt. thinking they know better than you how you should live your life. Stand up now before it’s too late.

Jag might come up tonight, we’ll see. Hope he does. Ty is fine. He went to the basketball game last night. He strained his back weightlifting the other day. He’s deadlifting about 250 pounds! Jag is on a 75 day workout regimen trying to gain weight. Glad both are into working out.

Time to get up and moving and to see what crazy shit is going on today. Take care, stock up, be safe and God Bless.

This morning the alarm went off at 5:30 as Lori has a new patient coming in at 8am. Ty doesn’t have school today until noon so I’ll head to the gym and then come home for my 10am call and take him at 11, before my 1pm call. Busy busy.

Warmer up here yesterday. I was in Denver and back by 2. Really warm down there. Snowing a bit in Denver today but not up here. Guess we’re both due for a small blast on Friday.

Have lots of work to do on the farm. Timing looks good as now even vegetables and fruits are going up in price and becoming scarce. Even if you do find what you’re looking for at the store, the veggies look old and not very fresh due to longer transit times due to a truck driver shortage. Food and water are going to become even a hotter commodity than they are now.

Time to get moving. Good meeting yesterday and I managed to get a haircut from Phoebe while in town. I stopped at Tom’s too to pick up Ty’s birthday present. They’re still working on fixing his basement but he’s doing fine.

Make it a great day, and watch your back, especially in the city, God Bless.

Yesterday the mask mandate in our county was lifted. You might remember we were one of the worst counties in the Country so this is good news. It means the Omi peaked and is now going away. But don’t worry, that crook Fauci says more will be coming. The next one should be called “anothercon”.

Ty had a good birthday snowboarding with friends. He has school today, Lori works and I’m off to Denver for a meeting with a top account and our new distributor. I should be back in time to pick him up from school.

Jag is doing well. Maybe he’ll come up this weekend. Time to get moving. Hope all’s well, stay safe and God Bless.

18 today! Wow! Hard to believe Ty too is old enough to vote, join the army and make other adult decisions. Time sure goes fast. Ty has four friends that slept over and I think they’re all getting up and heading to the mountain pretty soon. It’s 6:05 am now and I think they’re getting up and at it pretty soon.

Yesterday Lori and I hung out and watched football and some did things around the house. She made Ty his favorite red velvet cake with homemade frosting topped off with white chocolate shavings. it looks tasty. Today I have some work to do to prepare for the week but will mostly take it easy and try to enjoy the last day of the three day weekend. Lori is off too but will be scheduling surgeries or doing something.

Jag was going to come up but has a lot of work to do and it’s a long drive for one day. I’m in Denver tomorrow so maybe I’ll see him.

Happy Birthday Ty! What a journey it’s been. We love you and are very proud of you.

God Bless.

Lori just finished feeding carrots and apples to her herd of deer for breakfast. She had nine of them here yesterday as they have been spreading the word about the blond lady in sweats who throws food out in the morning and evening.

Good games yesterday except the Raiders were robbed. Buffalo did what I thought they’d do, and the Nuggets crushed the Lakers by 40 points!

Ty spent the night at Sonny’s and is already in Vail getting breakfast before hitting the mountain. There are three football games today and the Nuggets play again too.

The mask mandate ends here in Eagle County as of tomorrow meaning it will probably end today. Cases are going down. Even though Lori repeatedly tests negative, I have her one a course of vitamin C, D, Zinc and Elderberry today to try to kick her cough. I’m fine, knock on wood, and so is Ty who has been kicking his cold for a while.

James, Marty, Clark and I hung out and watched the Raider game. Tomorrow is Ty’s birthday and it’s also Marcella’s, James’s youngest. She’ll be 20 so she’s 2 years ahead of Ty. James is grabbing a jet and flying to New York for the day where she lives and will be back Tuesday. He said for us to come along and we laughed saying that’s just what Marcella wants, her dad and a bunch of his old guy friends showing up, ha. I would grab Ty and take him although he has school Tuesday and I have a meeting in Denver. He’d dig a private jet rip and going to NY.

Ty wanted to have like 10 friends over tonight but with the vid almost gone, we didn’t want to push it. Hard to believe he’ll be 18 tomorrow, wow.

Time to get going. be well, God Bless.

It’s a football lovers dream weekend. Probably the best weekend left of the season. Should be fun. Tom and I are excited! I’m headed to James today for the Raider game and then will head home for the second game.

Yesterday I hit Costco for some more essentials. Even they are out of some things. No cream cheese for one, hmm. Also no heavy cream. Guess Lori’s famous cheesecake is out this weekend. I worked out heavy in the morning, more than an hour. Then in the afternoon at a stop on the way to Costco, I slipped and fell on the ice. Ugh. It was one of those where I knew I was going down, sort of in slow motion. I’m fine, thankfully. Working out has a lot to do with staying limber. A little sore but that could be from working out. My left forearm is the only place I can tell that was directly impacted from the fall. Also have a few scrapes on my left hand. It’s good to fall every now and then to let yourself know you’re still in shape, ha. How’s that for glass half full!

Lori has six or seven deer out back she’s been feeding apples, broccoli, bird seed and celery. They also love strawberries. She’s doing her part to help them through the winter. Three of them are large bucks. You can watch the pecking order as the one in charge will chase the others off if they get too close to where he feeds. I see one out back this morning. He’s one of the smaller one-year old’s getting some food while he can.

Ty went to the hockey game last night but was home by 10. His birthday is Monday. I think Jagger is coming up for the day. Time to get moving. Do yourself a favor and please stock up on items you use on a regular basis now. Even if you can find them six months down the road, which is unlikely, they’ll be way more expensive.

God Bless and Go Pack!

We have a three day weekend coming up, and boy can we use it. It was so warm in Denver yesterday it felt like I was in Arizona. I think it’s going to be cooler today but then hopefully it’ll warm up again. We need some snow to melt around here. I had a good lunch with Luke and Toby yesterday and picked Ty up on the way home. Then I went to James for cigar night. We’re going to watch the Raider game tomorrow at his house.

Lori worked from home and is doing so again today. Think we’ll go to the gym this morning when we drop Ty at school as his truck is gone for a couple weeks getting fixed.

Thank God the Supreme Court stopped Biden’s vaccine mandate yesterday. On top of that two democrat Senators said they won’t vote to abolish the filibuster which is also great news. Biden’s approval numbers are now about 30% which is lower than any President in history a year into office. It’s easy to see why but it’s great the rest of the Country feels the same way. Maybe there’s hope for us all yet.

The news just said 1600 people are in the hospital with covid. The caveat is they then said 2/3’s of them were admitted for something else. Let that sink in. Over 1000 of the 1600 people went to the hospital for some issue that required hospitalization but then they tested positive for covid while there! This means that there are a lot of people walking around with covid, like people do with a cold in the winter, but that wasn’t bad enough to send them to the hospital. Yet the government wants to take away your rights and make everyone get some vaccine when most people with the vid are not sick enough to require medical care. Knowing this you have to ask, why the big push for vaccine passports? It’s all about control. The Dems have even admitted this wanting to track where you go, what you do, how you spend your money and just about everything else about your life. New York just passed a law where they can survey people they deem crime risks based on their social media posts! This is like the movie Minority Report in the 90’s. They think they can predict what you will do based on your opinions or thoughts on things like politics. You can bet with Dems in power there, any conservative or independent thinking thoughts will be considered potentially bad and they’ll be watching you. Unbelievable.

Worse than all this are the shortages in the grocery stores and then if there is something you want, the prices of those goods are almost double. Last night as we were hanging out smoking cigars, this came up and from Whole Foods to City Market, to restaurants and hardware stores, there are shortages of things everywhere. This is not hard to find unusual things either, it’s basic things like yogurt, meat, canned goods, pasta, even eggs. Dairy was particularly hard hit at Whole Foods. Throw in the labor shortages and stores are having to close early. And Biden thinks things are going well.

Strange times, stock up while you can. I hit three stores yesterday to get basic vitamins we’re running short on. They were picked over too. After two Whole Foods in Denver and our store in Frisco, I managed to get what I wanted. The three bags of groceries I did buy that should have cost about $200 ran us $394!

Get ready, make a plan and get ahead of the everyone else before this becomes more and more obvious. Good luck, God Bless.

Headed to Denver today. Getting an oil change and having lunch with Toby and Luke. Lori tested negative but I’d bet Ty has the vid for sure. We need to try to keep him home today. Lori is home so she can take care of him.

Yesterday Biden hit a new low. He directly said if you don’t agree with him, you’re a racist and not an American. He went so far to tell Americans that don’t support his radical agenda that they are basically terrorists. WOW, so much for uniting the Country. You see the Dems are losing it as they know if they don’t pass this bill that gives them unchecked control, they’ll never get it for sure. So they lie, cheat, defame and do anything else to smear anyone who doesn’t agree with them. How sad. Record numbers of Dems are retiring as they either see the writing on the wall or don’t agree with the administration and are moving on. Hard to blame them.

I think things will get worse before they get better. They’re still ramming their vaccine mandates forward even though there is overwhelming proof the vaccinated get sick at least as much as the unvaccinated. It’s also proven the the Omi variant is not fatal like the previous versions. Yet they push for control. They want vaccine passports that control where you can go and what you can do. Then they’ll want to control your money and other facts of your life. Don’t fall for it. It’s their last ditch effort to get you to do as they say by telling you they can make decisions for you better than you can for yourself and that it’s for your own good. What a joke.

Time to move on. Thankfully most of the Country has had it with their crap and sees through this scam. Essentials are still missing from shelves and prices are skyrocketing. Be smart, no useless spending as cash is king. Pay down debt if you can and get your house in order.

Sorry for the rant. I’m telling myself all of the above as much as I’m telling you, ha. Hang in there and God Bless.

This morning Ty and I are headed to Glenwood to drop his truck to be fixed. Not sure how long they’ll have it, but it needs to get in. This afternoon the Dish TV guy comes to fix our tv’s. Lori is in Frisco and Ty has school from 12 to about 4.

I had a good two hour range session yesterday and went through probably six boxes training. It was too cold at 10 in the morning, so my buddy and I rescheduled for 2 in the afternoon. He’s off to Phoenix today for some work before heading up to Vegas for the annual Shot Show next week.

Biden is off his rocker as they say. He called Kamala President Harris again yesterday and is so mixed up it’s clear he isn’t all there. Everyone knows it yet they keep sending him out there with a script to read. Now there’s talk of Hillary running again. We’ve made politics so toxic, good people don’t want to run. God help us.

Time for coffee. Have a great day and God Bless.