Today Jag has his first class. He’s also talking with Admissions to add economics or finance and some business classes to be on a pre-law track. He’s second guessing engineering a bit with the majority of the classes now on line. He’s leaning more towards an entrepreneurial track.
We picked Ty up at Cherry Creek and headed to Boulder to take Jag some more things and then go to lunch. We went for pizza at one of our favorite restaurants. Then we headed home and arrived around 6 pm.
Mojo is not doing well. He’s not eating much and pretty tired. He’s just old and winding down. Lori starts school today too. Her first class is 6:30 to 9:30 tonight. Ty officially starts tomorrow with his first in person class Thursday. He’d rather be going to Cherry Creek High in Denver with his best friend Preston but that’s not going to happen.
I have one week to go in the month. Hard to believe a week from tomorrow is September 1st. Things should be changing around here weather wise pretty quick. It’s still smoky but they say they have some control over the fire. The smoke we’re getting is from California. They just announced I-70 is open through the canyon. This is huge as it’s been closed for 10 days or so meaning a 3 or 4 hour detour. Great job fire fighters.
Crazy times, crazy World. This will end. Remember the Spanish Flu took two or three years but it too did end. Hang in there, God Bless.
Here’s a reminder for all you Biden fans that expect your free stuff!
We’re headed back to Denver and Boulder in 2 hours. At 11:30 we’re meeting Ty who is driving back from the lake in Nebraska and then we’re heading to Boulder to have lunch with Jagger. He’s doing really well.
Yesterday we made two trips to storage and came back with two truck loads of containers. The things we found are priceless. Most of it was from Mom’s including tons of cut glass, photos, memorabilia and more. Brings back memories. We also hit Costco, the furniture store and more. The front room looks like an antique store crossed with Neiman Marcus as we’re still going through things.
It’s super smoky this morning even though they say the fire is partially contained. Must be from California as half of that State is burning.
We went to Marty and Melanie’s for dinner. I ran to James’s first to see my buddy Rob who was visiting. He makes their whisky thanks to me as I hooked him up with the band to get the job. He’s a good guy.
Time to get moving so we can walk and feed the dogs and get on the road. Hope everyone is well. September is right around the corner, wow. God Bless.
It’s surreal having Jag go off to college. It hasn’t really hit me but Lori took it like a mother would, not good, ha. We made it down by 7:45 after waking at 4am and loading both cars. Upon arrival he had to have another covid test and then we checked in and then headed to his dorm. He checked in there and then I took the first load up to his room with him. Lori or I didn’t need a test but only one of us could go up at a time. The rooms are small! I came down and then Lori went up with another load and I headed to Target to buy some more supplies for him. By the time I made it back, they were pretty much done and with a two hour limit to move in it was time for us to go. We hit Whole Foods before leaving Boulder and then headed home. We’re super excited for him and proud as well. With Ty in Nebraska we were all alone.
We made it home in 2 hours which was surprisingly quick and then rushed to the storage unit to grab some boxes before we waited for Craig our landscaper to come over. I unpacked the boxes outside due to the dust and carried in the books I decided to keep and made a pile of four boxes to donate to the local school. Today we’ll get some more stuff from our other storage unit and go through them too.
We’re off to the gym before getting back to work. In a crazy way Lori and I decided we’ll be ok when the kids are gone, as long as they’re close and come visit. It’s part of life, right?
We still need some furniture but will take it slow as things are so expensive. You’d think with the mess going on stores would have huge sales, nope.
Here’s a couple pictures from yesterday. Jag texted a few times last night as he was out with new friends already. Good for him. I did tell Lori she doesn’t look old enough to have a kid in college, right! God Bless you all, be well and be safe.
8/21/2020, 4am, Eagle CO, 60 minutes to launch. Destination, Williams Village, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO.
Time to get moving. All gear is staged at the front door to be loaded. We should be in Boulder by 7:30 am if all goes well. Then Lori and Jag will load gear into the dorm while I go buy food.
Yesterday Jag and I went to Denver to meet Ty for haircuts and a few other errands. On the way home we picked up our new truck. Ty is off to Nebraska today with Preston and his family for fun on the lake. We’ll meet them in Frisco on Sunday to gather him up.
Lori passed her Accutest placement test for college with a 281 out of 300! She starts her EMT classes on line on Monday.
Everyone else is fine. Time to get moving, be well, safe and God Bless, Go Buffs!
It’s a bad year for fires. While we’re in the middle of it, California has something like 365 fires burning as of today. In general, the west is burning. Intense temperatures with no rain are causing the problem. We did have some rain yesterday but that sparked a few new fires as with rain comes lightening. With all going on in 2020 this fits right in. Some say it’s biblical. Fires, pandemic, famine, social unrest, all we need now is floods and those will come in a few months when the rain and snow comes to all the barren hill sides stripped bare from the fires. Hold on, there’s more to come.
I took my buddy James for his injections yesterday morning at the surgery center in Frisco dropping him off at 8. About 2 hours later he was ready to go home. All went well. Later in the day after dropping Ty in Silverthorne to meet Preston I went back by to check on him. He’s doing fine but as steroids wear off you do feel a little flush. Lori will check on him today as I’m in Denver with Jag and we will meet Ty for haircuts.
Tomorrow am early we’re off to Boulder. They had six cases of Covid at CU so we’re hoping he doesn’t get sent home as soon as he arrives. He of course is negative but we’re afraid if the school has too many positive cases they’ll send everyone home.
I have to run by Minturn on the way down as I need to drop a key for the carpet guy and pick up four barstools to drop off at Jeff and Tina’s. On the way home we’ll stop at the Chevy dealer and return our loaner truck that we’ve had for a few days and pick up our new truck as it’s all ready.
The Dems and their convention are a joke. Everyone thinks Biden will win in a landslide and he could, (as too many people are that stupid), but I hope Trump squashes him like a bug. Biden is an idiot. Say what you will about Trump but he’s not senile. We happen to be surfing channels last night and heard Obama’s voice and had to mute the tv as just hearing his voice was painful. What a sad situation we’re in. It’s hard to understand how in 2020 the two choices we have for President are Trump and Biden. Since we need to pick one though, Trump, even with all his idiotic tweets is the only choice. Now time to move on.
I need to get moving. Jag and I need to leave in an hour. Lori is sleeping in as she has a test today and gets to work from home. God Bless.
I’m leaving in 40 minutes to drive my buddy to Frisco for neck injections. Lori got him in and he needs a ride. He’s not one to ask people for help but I’m happy to do it.
Tomorrow it’s off to Denver again and then Friday we leave early for college in Boulder. They do have six cases of the virus down there so we’re holding our breath hoping they don’t just shut it down.
We had our final appraisal yesterday and have a few things getting fixed today. Lori is also working in Frisco today so maybe I’ll see her this morning.
Lori and Jag’s covid tests came back negative which was no surprise to us. Meanwhile boxes of bedding and gear arrived for college. You have to take your own bedding. It was super smoky yesterday everywhere between here and Denver. Around 10am I learned my truck wouldn’t start as the battery or electrical system was dead. After 90 minutes a truck showed up to get it going and then I had to drive it straight to the dealer in Denver. The smoke from the tunnel to Georgetown was worse than up here. I think that’s coming from the fire over by Winter Park. We’re so over the fires. Enough so we’d welcome the snow.
Jag was washing the cars and didn’t know the dogs got out. Apparently they cornered an older couple and their little dog so the neighbor pulled them (the couple) into his garage. We’re lucky they didn’t call animal control. I think they were out for an hour terrorizing the neighborhood, super.
Robi sent Lori a nice text about Jag heading off to college. It was really appreciated.
Lori has an early Zoom call at work so she’s getting ready. Her old doc is screwing her out of her last paycheck of $4300. No surprise there. He’s apparently having a hard time these days as his last four cases have all had bad complications. Not good. I think he’s checked out and is not paying attention but rather just going through the motions. Too bad for the patients.
I too need to get moving as some guys from Denver are picking up our new bed in an hour and then at 10 another one is being delivered. Lori doesn’t like the one we just bought a month ago. Thankfully they have a 120 day free trial. Then Ty and I and maybe Jag are off to Denver, again, ugh.
Let’s see, so far we have the virus, the social unrest (pseudo BLM protests), the fires, daily shootings in most major cities, unprovoked random violence and a tanking economy. Throw in Creepy Joe and his supposed black running mate (she’s Indian and Jamaican) and it’s been quite the year. They say the fires could burn for a couple of months. Now those that didn’t want to wear a mask have another reason to do so.
Get ready for more to come such as food shortages, less safe neighborhoods, poor air quality (here in Colorado for sure) and distance learning for students. Makes you look forward to 2021 right?
Yesterday James came over around noon and we hung out for about 3 hours. Lori made fajita’s. Then Marty and Mel came for dinner as he was working all day selling real estate. They hung out here until about 10. Jag went out last night and Ty was at the skate park from about 10:30 in the morning until 6 when Marty and Mel picked him and Max up and drove them home.
Today Ty wants to go to Denver and we might meet his friend in Georgetown but first he needs to take his drivers license test in Frisco. Lori is in Edwards and I have a call and then need to get some things out of the garage in Minturn. Lots going on. I’d like to get to the storage unit too.
Not much visible smoke this morning but you know the tiny particles are in the air. The winds shifted yesterday sending most of the smoke to Carbondale and Aspen rather than due east. This is a welcome break for us as we’ve had a solid week of it.
We have carpet in New Castle which is the other side of Glenwood and hope they drive up through Craig and Steamboat and get it here. We’ll know more today.
There were just two nice bucks walking on the side of the house driving Mojo crazy. They seemed to just ignore him.
Time to go, be well and have faith in God. This too will pass, God Bless.
After a full day, we all headed to Lee and Margret’s for dinner at 5. The house was buzzing with Robert, Forrest, Walker (their boys) and KJ and Lindsey and little Theodore. Robert and Lindsey are married and Forrest and KJ are married. Robert is the oldest, then Forrest and then Walker. Theodore (Ted, named after Uncle Ted) is Robert and Lindsey’s little boy who was about 3 years old. They also had their neighbor and his girlfriend over. Now this is quite the story as their next door neighbor is Helmut Fricker. Helmut is a German guy who must be close to 80 who started Octoberfest in Denver in 1969. He’s an institution up here as he leads off Octoberfest up here every single year too and is a World Champion yodeler. You might have seen him on posters or tv playing a long 10 foot German horn. I first met him 15 years ago and he remembered me. He’s also one of the Country’s top antique book restoration specialists. His girlfriend was a former country singer from Texas and they’re both super fun and nice. He made the boys laugh as he’s like a German Rodney Dangerfield with silly jokes. He also brought his accordion and played and Lee commented how much much Mom would have enjoyed this and of course he was spot on. I can see her sitting there signing along with Roll Out The Barrel and other popular hits from her generation. So, great to connect with family. The two oldest boys (mid 30’s) were Marine’s for about 10 years while Walker is home from England where he’s studying theology and alchemy. Margret is a doll and full of energy. Her Great Grandpa and Uncle were two of the first Texas Rangers in the mid 1800’s. Lee and Margret are a few years older than me, maybe 66ish. It’s great to have family close and Lee kept saying how he’s sure it’s more than a coincidence that we ended up so close to each other. Maybe he’s right. There was a picture of Lee on their refrigerator from years ago I think holding one of their kids when they were born that looked exactly like Tommy. The kids all said how much I looked like Aunt Rose who was their grandma. Makes sense I guess.
After dinner Jag went to friends house and Lori, Ty and I went to Marty and Melanie’s. We showed up to find a new fishing boat in their driveway! He bought it over the phone and had it delivered to his dad’s memory care home in Montana where they went to visit last week. He was waiting to surprise us and didn’t tell us until we walked up on it. We laughed as the dealer was hesitant to take the money over the phone and deliver a boat to a memory care center when he bought it sight unseen, funny. It’ll be fun and now Marty has like four boats! Three river rafts and the new fishing boat!
No smoke again this morning. You can see way off in the distance smoke somewhere over by Glenwood. It picks up around noon and calms down around 5 pm every day. Today James is coming by and then Marty and Mel for buffalo chili for dinner. I have just a couple more things to get out of Minturn. Robi’s old wood dresser that you attach a mirror to and an old chair with swirly arms and legs in green velvet. Then a few chairs are all that remain in the garage.
We have a big week as Jag moves in and then stays at CU this coming Friday to start college the following Monday. Ty this week, I think, is going to Denver to stay with his friend Preston and their family. Amy, Preston’s mom, keeps going on how much they love Ty and what a great kid he is. Ty and Preston could use a few days of hanging out together before school starts. I think both boys will have about two days a week of actual school and the rest of their work will be on line.
I think Lori and I will go to the gym and then hit Minturn to pick up those two remaining pieces of furniture. I might keep the chair but maybe give Margret the dresser. We’ll see.
Before I go, Lori found this the other day and it reminded me of Mom, check it out,
When they asked her to reveal her beauty secrets, Audrey Hepburn wrote this beautiful text that was later read at her funeral.
′′ To have attractive lips, speak kind words.
To have a loving look, look for the good side of people.
To look skinny, share your food with the hungry.
To have beautiful hair, let a child cross it with his own fingers once a day.
To have a beautiful poise, walk knowing you’re never alone, because those who love and loved you accompany you.
People, even more than objects, need to be fixed, spoiled, awakened, wanted and saved: never give up on anyone.
Remember, if you ever need a hand, you’ll find them at the end of both your arms.
When you become old, you will discover that you have two hands, one to help yourself, the second to help others.
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, in her face or in her way of fixing her hair.
The beauty of a woman is seen in her eyes, because that is the door open to her heart, the source of her love.
The beauty of a woman doesn’t lie in her makeup, but the true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul.
It is the tenderness that gives love, the passion that it expresses.
The beauty of a woman grows over the years ′′
See what I mean? Mom all the way. They even look alike in a way. Be well, make it a great day and God Bless.
At night you can see the flames bouncing off a ridge two or three hills away. During the day you can see the smoke on the ground if you know where to look. Hopefully the winds will turn south and die down. It’s scary to have the fire so close. They’re evacuating people as close as 5 miles away. We have 352 fire fighters on the job as of today. It’s cool this morning with no wind which helps for sure. We need some rain and no wind to get a handle on this.
Lori and Jag had covid tests yesterday for school. I’ll go down with them but Lori will go in the actual dorm with Jag. I’ll run over to Whole Foods and get him some food to get him going. He’s excited and Lori is already missing him. I’ll miss him too. Glad he’s close.
We’re headed to the gym this morning after we walk the dogs. Ty now wants to go to school two days a week in Denver as his friend has decided to stay down there and go to Cherry Creek High School. Obviously not going to happen.
I met Marty and his local relator at the house yesterday and we hope to have the place on the market by a week from Monday. Our carpet is stuck on the other side of the canyon meaning the fire. Hopefully we can get it over here early next week.
Time to get moving. Pray for the firefighters and everyone up here. The whole State is almost covered in smoke. Be well and God Bless.
