A Year of Change

Thankfully tomorrow all the political smears and lies, also known as ads, stop. I stopped listening to them weeks or even months ago but they sure are annoying. They’re boarding up cities across the Country anticipating problems after the election.

Ty made it home around 7 last night. After we went to the gym in the morning we decided to put up our Christmas tree. After tweaking it all day, it looks perfect! No ornaments on it yet but it’s ready to go.

I’ve had allergies most of the week. No fever or anything, just a stuffy nose. Jag has a little sore throat too. Time for chicken soup and vitamin C. It was a beautiful day yesterday and is supposed to stay that way until the weekend. Lori leaves Thursday to see her mom. Timing is good if you don’t count the virus and the election and the weather, ha. She’ll be back Sunday.

Two more kids at Ty’s school have covid. We might just keep him home this week, just in case.

Last, the Broncos had an epic comeback to win the game yesterday. Tommy and I must have texted 50 times and were both in shock at the win. What a game, God Bless.

After picking up the Audi, which had been in Denver at the dealer all week with a weird problem due to two proprietary batteries, we drove up to see my buddy who runs the Mercedes dealer in Westminster. I had called him and he gave me a bid that covered our payoff and then a little bit just in case. He also gave me a discount off whatever we wanted that he had. With winter coming on and the Porsche just sitting in the garage we took the opportunity to throw it in on any potential trade and go from the expense of two cars to one to save money. Our insurance also dropped about $1400 a year. So, after Lori scoured the lot and sat and drove a bunch of cars, (for over two hours!) we finally went with an AMG E 53 Sedan. This is a big change for us as it’s a car and not an SUV. We haven’t had an actual car for at least a dozen years since we had a Cadillac. After driving home, we knew we made the right choice. It’s luxurious, all wheel drive, has 429 horsepower and will make a great road trip car. It’s still sporty and it’s fast and it wasn’t anymore than the Audi. Lori loves it. It does come with performance tires so I will need to get winter tires for it but that’s it. Pictures to come. Jag was lobbying hard for this over an SUV. Maybe he thinks he’s going to be cruising in it, ha.

Speaking of Jag, he’s doing great. Has lots of friends, I think mostly girls, and is loving college. We stopped at Whole Foods in Boulder and drove past a huge Trump rally with a wide demographic of people smack dab in the middle of Boulder. How cool is that? Ty is in Denver coming home today. I think the Halloween party was cancelled so they went to a haunted house instead. We had one trick or treater, Theo, who is Robert and Lindsey’s, (cousin Lee’s son and daughter in law), little boy. He was dressed as an astronaut and looked great. We gave him probably 50 candy bars and he was thrilled. We remember those days well.

Lori is crushing it at work. After getting a frantic call yesterday morning, she managed to get one of her patients in I think tomorrow who fractured her hip. They live in Florida and fly private so they can zip on up here with no notice. Lori is the “go to girl” for many wealthy patients around the World and these people love her. Their family invented a famous sports drink in the 80’s. Her doctor even came to her saying that even though she’s not supposed to get a bonus until after working their a year per clinic policy, they feel she should get one now. They also told her to decide what she thinks she deserves but said they can’t do a million dollars. What a compliment. She has lots of things in store to continue on her plan to reshape the entire practice. There are a lot of incompetent people working there though so that’s her biggest challenge. Oh well, knowing Lori, she’ll get it done.

We’re going to walk the dogs and then head to the gym. Hope you all turned your clocks back. Can’t believe they’re changing the name of Columbus Park in Denver. Shit is out of control. Thank God we live where we live but we’re not immune from the pc culture and idiots either. I miss the old days. Must be getting old if I can say that!

Enjoy the day and Happy November 1st, God Bless.

We have pumpkins, but no kids. This is the first Halloween Lori and I are alone. Maybe we’ll go out.

This morning we’re off to get the Audi. Ty is at Preston’s and Jag of course at college. I stopped by the gunsmith and mall yesterday before heading home. No one we know is sick thank God. It’s warming up and the dogs are fine. Not much else going on here. Send some Halloween pictures if you get any, God Bless.

Tonight is the night before Halloween. Ty is headed to Denver to stay with Preston until Sunday. Should be fun. The good thing about Halloween is everybody is wearing a mask, right?

Yesterday Lori and I were on the way to get the Audi after dropping Ty at school but thankfully we received a call letting us know not to come as it wasn’t fixed. A new battery arrives today so hopefully we’ll be good to go by tomorrow. Lori works Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday before going to California on Thursday so tomorrow is our window.

It’s still cool up here at night, mid 20’s, but not cold. Clocks fall back an hour tomorrow night. 70’s next week which means 65 or so up here and supposedly no moisture.

Hope you all are stocking up! Cleaning supplies and other food items are starting to disappear. One concerning report shows a few counties with 90% plus of the people wearing masks and cases still going up. Apparently something else is going on, hmm.

Stock up on Vitamin C, Zinc, Elderberry Syrup and over the counter cold medicines. I’ll skip politics but many people are skipping regular doctor visits which is not good. When Trump says the cure, meaning total isolation, can’t be worse than the disease, this is what he means. I’ll stop now but do what you have to do, think for yourself and just be careful.

God Bless.

Today hopefully we’ll get her car back from the dealer. There’s a small chance we won’t but we’ll know more at 8am. Ty has school and then is working out. Lori and I will head to Denver after dropping him off.

Lori had a great day yesterday at work after getting some patients that were going to see Dr. C. (her old doctor) to switch to Dr. Braxton for surgery. If you knew the inside info, there’s no choice.

It’s warming up today and will continue into next week. With all the covid cases rising Lori is just going to visit her mom next week and not bring her back right now. We’ll wait until Christmas to get her out here.

Time to feed the dogs and get moving. Don’t believe the polls, just vote, God Bless.

Looks like cases are rising again. Not sure what this means for Lori going to get Dixie in a week or so. I know parts of Denver are closing down or tightening restrictions. This means little time left to stock up on needed items. Here we go again.

It’s cold but warmer than it was. Every day it’ll get a little warmer all week until we’re back in the 60’s by the weekend. Not sure about Halloween with cases on the rise. Ty will be in Denver as of right now.

Jag is doing well. I dropped his ballot to him yesterday. Lori’s car is still being worked on. That’s it, we have a busy week. I’m driving Lori to Frisco this morning at 7:15 so time to go, God Bless.

But warming up! What a way to start winter, a foot of snow and cold, below zero temperatures. Nice welcome. Yesterday to top it off the Audi stopped running. It had some electrical problem so Audi Care picked it up and took it to Denver. It’ll be fixed today but what a pain. That means Lori is driving the Porsche today and I’ll be taking my truck to Denver and Boulder. It’ll be in the 40’s here in Eagle today which is warm.

Justice Amy Coney Barrett is our newest Supreme Court Justice. The dems are up in arms and vowing to change the composition of the Court which has been in place for over 150 years. Typical democrat, it they don’t like the outcome of something, the want to change the rules. It’s their own fault she’s in as Harry Reid changed the rules in the Senate so a simple majority could change things. He, a Nevada democrat, did this years ago as they wanted to change the rules to get their way on something. Ironic that now they don’t like it. As Obama said, elections have consequences. Thank God she is in. She’s a good woman and judge and the majority of the American people approve of her.

I need to get moving so I can get to Boulder, Westminster, Longmont and maybe Denver and then head back up the hill. Can’t wait until a week from tomorrow when the election is over. Most people I know are worried that people that just don’t think will be voting for Biden. If you follow the facts, not the rhetoric on tv, there’s only one choice, and it’s not Biden. Most people though just believe the crap they see on tv. God help us.

Make it a great day, God Bless.

It started mid-afternoon and kept going well into the night. This morning we have a bunch. So much that Ty will stay home today and that’s saying something. I should have bought a snow blower!

We fixed up the dogs houses in the garage so they were not out all night in the cold. It’s still dark outside at 6:45. Lori and I are thinking it’s normally light outside by now. Maybe the cloud cover is keeping it dark. I think we’re socked in with cloud cover. I know Boulder received about a foot and my buddy in Grand Junction said they were in the middle of a blizzard and that was at 5pm. Cold all day today and through the night and then warming up tomorrow and through the week. We need the moisture though so no complaints.

Luckily Lori is working from home today. She did have some surgeries (at least one) cancel. It’s 14 degrees here which is about the high in Denver today. I am headed down to Denver tomorrow which should be fine.

Eight days until the election, enough said. Time to get moving. I think at the end of the week we turn our clocks back and a week from today it’ll be November 2nd. Here we go, God Bless.

This morning and most of the night it’s been really windy. It’s not really cold outside yet, and no rain or snow, but they say it’s coming. I think Denver is in the middle of it right now. We’re ready and expecting it. Right now though it’s in the mid 40’s.

Yesterday I went to Frisco and then later in the day went back to Vail. Ty spent the night at Preston’s and I’ll get him in a few hours. Hope all this wind is not spreading the fires.

Lori and I watched a movie last night and today will lay low. Yesterday when Ty and I were driving to Edwards we saw a 5 mile, 200 car, truck and motorcycle parade for Trump! It was really cool. We couldn’t believe how long it was. While we see some Biden signs up here, you see Trump banners and now parades. Hope this is a good sign. Lori and I will fill out our ballots today and drop them at the court house.

Glad we didn’t go down to Denver with the weather. Hope Jagger stays warm. Time to feed the dogs. two months from today is Christmas, wow. God Bless.

Ok, we have two showings today, one at 9 and one at noon, wish us luck.

Last night I drove Ty to the high school football game. They lost but he had a good time. Jeff and Tina made it up from Denver around 5pm and we had a fun night of laughing and hanging out. They have some mutual friends coming over for dinner tonight so they’ll leave for Denver sometime this morning. We’re invited but with the weather coming in, we’re going to pass this time. It’s nice up here this morning and was 63 degrees yesterday at 4 when it was in the 20’s in Denver.

James gets home from Wisconsin today after a week of whitetail hunting. Zero luck on the trip but I guess a fun time. Standing in a tree stand though is not really my idea of hunting. It was cold with snow and rain. We’ll drop him some chili that Lori made for dinner last night as she made a ton and that way he won’t have to travel all day and then shop and cook. He’s super thankful but he’d do the same for us.

Snow and cold coming in. It’ll stay until Tuesday and then gradually warm up into the 60’s where it’ll settle for the week. Halloween should be fine. Tina just strolled downstairs. Jeff is getting cleaned up and will be down soon. That’s it, time to get moving and go feed the dogs.

Make it a great day, God Bless.