A Year of Change

In the morning we went to the gym and them slowly prepared to go to Thanksgiving dinner down the hill at cousin Lee’s at 2. We were about 20 minutes late but it was just us and their family so all good. Lee made a great turkey on the Traeger which is a pellet smoker. We bbq’d some tomahawk steaks I bought at Edwards whenwe arrived. There were all kinds of sides rivaling the number at Grandma Miller’s when we were kids. When I say rivaling I mean more than normal but not anywhere near as many as at Grandma’s or nearly as good. I just ate turkey, steak and salad though. We stayed until around 5;30. It was fun for all of us to be with family.

Lee seems a lot older than me even though he only has three years on me. He moves slow, like you’d think a grandfather would and just had a couple surgeries with the second one being on his right eye and he still can’t see too good out of it. Margret is great and full of life and of course their boys being mid 30’s are in their prime. Then there’s little Theo or Ted named after Uncle Ted Christian, Lee’s dad and my uncle. He brings a lot of fun and amazement as any 4 or 5 year old does. It was a really nice time.

Later in the evening Jag went out to see some friends and when coming home slid into a rock in a roundabout. He crunched the front fender on the driver side of his car. At least he wasn’t hurt. His car will need to wait to be fixed though until Mom’s estate is settled or our townhome sells. I suspect it’ll be thousands of dollars, ugh. Again though, good news is he’s ok. God Bless.

Ty was playing a video game with friends all night as I texted him at 3:30 am to go to bed. He replied quickly, “got it”.

We have an inch or snow of snow, not a lot but probably more in Vail and closer to the pass. It’s Black Friday which doesn’t mean a lot anymore. Everything is on line and honestly, we haven’t even thought about Christmas shopping. We’re just trying to get through each day. Tommy texted last night that CU is playing football today as earlier I think their game was cancelled with another team who didn’t have enough player to make up a team due to the virus. Seems like a lot more people are getting it this time around. We’re all trying to be safe.

Guess I’ll go. Hope everyone’s holiday was great. Make the best of what you have! God Bless.

After a busy day I picked Lori up in Frisco about 5:15. An hour later we were home. Jag had gone to Lexi’s and we heard him come in around 1:30 am. Ty and I tried to get on line at 7 pm to pre-order the PS5 but they were sold out before you could blink. Scalpers use computer bots (programs) to grab them all and then sell them for 2 to 3 times what they cost to kids that have to have them. We’ll wait. Hope they all lose money.

Today we’re going to Lee and Margret’s at 2 and we’ll eat around 4. It’s overcast here this morning but no new snow. Not your typical Thanksgiving but there are things to be thankful for. If you’re healthy or have a job, you should be thankful. If you have food on your table, be thankful. If you woke up! Be thankful. Things can always be worse. Still I get it, things are bittersweet. We will come through this, hang in there, shouldn’t be much longer until we turn the corner. Say a prayer, it will help.

Today starts the traditional four day weekend. I remember as a kid looking so forward to this break as after this you could count the days until Christmas. If you’re a kid, this is a magical 30 days! Now kids get the entire week off and this year, well, we all know. Lori would like to get some lights on the house today, we’ll see. Around us you can see lights popping up more and more every night.

Politically we now have Trump allowing the transition to begin for the good of the Country but there are still legal challenges. Ironically and predictably, Biden is now calling for unity which one would expect but I think it’s going to be a while before half the Country embraces the Dems. Good news is the riots should stop. Had it been the other way around, there would be blood in the streets. Can you imagine if Trump was declared the winner by the media? How do you think those folks on the left that have been rioting for months would be acting? Hmm. Oh well, the good news is time doesn’t stop. Things always move forward and things always change. Not always for the best but nothing stays the same so we’ll see what happens.

Time to go. Hope you all are well. Be safe and think for yourself. Don’t listen to the hypocritical politicians as they have one set of rules for you and one for them. An example here was our Mayor of Denver told everyone yesterday morning to stay home and not travel anywhere then right after his news conference, proceeded to get on a plane to Houston and Mississippi to go see his family, ha. He’s received tons of negative feedback rightly so and of course in typical democrat fashion, is now apologizing and asking for forgiveness and wants to move forward. Unbelievable. We shouldn’t be surprised though. In recent weeks, mostly democrats from the Governor of California to Nancy Peolsi and many others have put authoritarian restrictions on us which don’t apply to them. They seem to have forgot, they are elected to represent and work for us, they are not our leaders. Time to kick them all out and start fresh. Good God, God Bless.

Off to Frisco and then Denver in about an hour. Snow stopped and the roads should be better than yesterday. Looks like parts of Denver had more snow than we did. My work calls went well and I’m pretty much done for the month. Lori woke me up last night as she was having a bad dream and scared of something. We watched some Kevin Costner movie that maybe had lingering effects.

I’m stopping at Edwards Meat Market for some steaks and a smoked turkey this morning before heading to my three other stops before heading back up the hill. I’ll get Lori on the way home.

Lots of football tomorrow, whoo hoo. Time to get moving, hope you all have your meal plans set. God Bless.

We have snow! I was going to Denver today but changed it to tomorrow. Smart decision. This system is supposed to be a quick hitter. Should be out of here by noon.

I have round two of my 2021 planning call today and then am done for the week. We’re pretty optimistic about next year as it can’t be as bad as this year. We’re thankful we all survived and have jobs as many people just crashed. Lives have been ruined with all the restrictions. Hope lives have been saved but it’s hard to tell.

Lori needs to be at work around 8 so I’ll drive her. Her car gets snow tires Saturday am while she and Ty are getting haircuts. I switched days yesterday when I checked the weather report. This time the weatherman was right.

We had a showing at Minturn yesterday but no offer yet. Hopefully soon. It’s been a perfect storm with the townhome not selling, mom’s estate and the IRS and Lori and I both taking pay cuts. Not fun in any way at all. Oh well, like I said, many people are way worse off.

Time to go, be safe and well and God Bless.

Could it be that all this talk of a second wave is more hype than reality? Many scientists are now debunking one model the govt. seems to have latched on to saying we’re in the middle of a second wave. In fact, most scientists say there is no second wave at all. Locally we look at the hospital beds and we’re not overwhelmed as the news says. Same is true in Grand Junction where my buddy’s sister is a nurse. They say everything that comes in is being labeled covid. Now I don’t doubt many of them are but then I read that over half of the tests are false positives. I can send a link if anyone is interested but let’s do a little survey. Who here knows someone hospitalized or at least very sick with covid? Anyone? We don’t and we run in a pretty big circle. Let us know. Also wtf was the cell phone alert yesterday? Seems like an overreaction as when we get those we think of a fire close by or a flood or something impending that is going to cause immediate harm. At least 70% of the people on the news agree with me. I guess in a week or so we’ll know more as millions of people are flying or travelling for Thanksgiving despite being told not to. Seems people will listen until it comes down to them personally wanting to do something, ha. Anyhow, this thing needs to just go away and we need to get back to normal.

The Bronco’s won! Whoo hoo! We have a light dusting of snow with more coming they say. We’ll see. It’s beginning to be that you cannot listen to or believe anything anyone says anymore. Pollsters, scientists, doctors, government officials, and yes now even weathermen have been getting things wrong. Now sportscasters too as the Bronco’s were not supposed to have any chance of winning. Just goes to show you, hmm.

Jag has three more days of class before break but Ty is off. I was taking Lori’s car down tomorrow for tires but will go on Saturday due to the snow storm coming. It better arrive. We’re off to the gym at 6:15 so that’s it. be well, be safe, wash your hands and avoid crowds as we’d better error on the side of caution but as I said above, every day it gets harder to believe the talking heads on tv. Wouldn’t it be nice if they are all wrong and there really is no second wave and this is all a big lie? For once, it’d be great for them to be wrong. Just saying. God Bless.

After a busy day in Frisco and Breckenridge with a little bit of normalcy outside of wearing a mask, we decided to call Jag and have him meet us at Matsu in Vail for sushi for dinner on the way home. Man is that place good. We tried a few new things like truffle sea bass that was incredible. Then we all headed home. Tables were spaced out as they were at like 25% capacity.

Today we’ll hang out around here but might go over to Silverthorne to see Marty and Melanie’s new house. Might also hit the gym again early this morning.

We found a fun Christmas store in Breckenridge and the town was packed. You could tell there were a lot of tourists, same in Vail. Guess everyone from the city is trying to get out of there, super. This coming week high season kicks in normally so we’ll see what happens. The ski areas are open but rumor has it Vail will close Monday. I find that hard to believe but we’ll see.

Dogs are out and have been fed. Last night Lee, our cousin, sent me a picture from his 9th birthday party. Now he’s 3 years older than I am so I must have been six. Check out this wild man,

Kind of a grainy picture but that’s me. We wore a lot of cut off jeans back in the day. Funny.

That’s it, have a great Sunday, be well, safe and stay healthy, God Bless.

Hard to believe it’s November 21st right? I mean forget the relatively nice weather we have when we should or could have a foot of snow. Think about how fast Thanksgiving arrived and that soon it’ll be Christmas. You can’t slow down time. It keeps on moving no matter what you do. It reminds me of the story of a wealthy old man who would give up his entire fortune for just another year. As we get older we all need to try to do more, not less. I think you get the picture.

Up here we’re busy. The boys are certainly living life and we’re trying too. The problem is work, bills and other meaningless things sometime get in the way. You know, responsibilities.

In Denver yesterday I saw Tom briefly at the bank but he was in a board meeting and we didn’t get to talk. I’d like to get the snow tires on Lori’s car today but will go down Tuesday instead. Of course they now say snow Tuesday morning.

I ordered up a small smoked turkey and two tomahawk steaks from Edwards Meat Market yesterday. Those guys are about the best I know of.

Ty spent the night at Preston’s in Vail and Jag will pick him up this morning. Lori and I are headed to the gym and then will clean up a bit around here and watch some football. I have work calls scheduled Monday am and Tuesday afternoon and then might go bird hunting Wednesday am. Thursday there are three football games and I think we’ll all go down to cousin Lee’s for Thanksgiving as they invited us. We’ll know more later.

That’s it, time to go, God Bless.

Been a long week. Maybe a little snow tonight and then some more next Tuesday and next Friday. That’ll be fun for all the Black Friday shoppers if there are any this year. I might go bird hunting if we can get in. Today it’s one more drive for work. I should be home by 2 or 3.

Went to James’s last night as he just got back from 2 weeks in California. They did some huge on line benefit concert. I missed it but it was pretty cool from what I understand.

Preston spent the night with us and Jag had a physics test at 8pm last night. It was a 100 minute test. Strange it started at 8pm but it is 2020. Hope 2021 is much better. Lori had an allergy headache yesterday. Hope it’s gone this morning.

Pfizer is filing for FDA authorization today for its vaccine. Seems to be going well and people will start receiving it in December. People like us, relatively healthy, probably won’t get it until next March of April. Stay healthy! Dr. Faucci said yesterday it’s remarkable and is for real. Amazing Trump got this done in a matter of months. The Dems, especially Joe, said he had no plan for distribution. Well if you saw the General from the Army and listened to him, he has a master plan. We still can’t believe Joe won. From some recent revelations, maybe he didn’t, more to come. Stay tuned.

Time to go, be well, be safe and God Bless.

Last night it was windy up here and yesterday while bird hunting it was windy too. We had two labs who in my opinion are not as good as pointers. They run too far ahead of you and by the time the bird clears them (gets high enough in the air so you can shoot without shooting the dog) it’s 50 yards or more which makes for a super long shot. Anyhow we didn’t see a lot of birds. Warm weather with wind and labs were the cause. I did shoot a couple nice roosters but it wasn’t like I’m used to. Anyhow a bad day of hunting is better than a good day of working!

I’m off in 30 or 4o minutes to pick up Lori’s car so time to get moving. Today is Ty’s last day of school until December. This no Thanksgiving thing boggles the mind. On Thanksgiving you usually get together with people you’ve been seeing all the time anyhow. Hmm.

The keto diet is working well for me. I’m down 4 pounds of pure fat, no muscle. You can tell from the way your clothes fit. I actually enjoy eating like this too. No carbs and virtually no sugar and absolutely no processed foods. All this results in zero inflammation which they say is the root of most disease. if you want skinny ankles, go keto!

Time to go, 30 minutes to hit the road so I’m back by 11. Be well and safe and GB.

3:20 am, up and getting ready to head out to Denver to meet up with my buddy Toby. Need to be on the road by 4:15 or earlier. Then it’s a bit over another hour to Rocky Mountain Roosters where we’ll hook up with our flushing lab and hunt some pheasant. I can’t wait as it’s been since last March since I was bird hunting. Should be done around 11 and home before 3.

I ran down to Denver yesterday to drop Lori’s car and pick up some samples. I was home by noon. Ty and Jag will be at home today working and waiting to let some guys in to fix the AV panel in the garage. It’s suppose to be warm today and was nice yesterday too. Snow Saturday am while we’re sleeping and then it’ll be gone by the end of the day.

Training is going well. It’s hard to only eat lean protein and select good fats like avocados and olives and a few nuts. I’m committed though so it is what it is. Pop quiz! Who always said “it is what it is”? I think we know.

Be well and safe and I’d love to share some pheasants with you if any of you were a bit closer. God Bless.