A Year of Change

Today everybody wants to be Irish! We’d like to go to Ireland as we have lots of friends who have gone and really enjoyed it. Someday.

Yesterday Ty and I went to Denver for a Ty Day. We hit MW Reynolds for some cool denim and then headed to Neiman Marcus where he found a bunch of good things on sale. He’s really happy with his new stuff.

Lori spent the day cleaning the basement, the laundry room and the kitchen and living room and part of our closet! I wasn’t excited about another drive to Denver but after seeing what she did, I made the right choice. Today Ty has theater practice from 11 until 3. His performance is April 5th, 6th and 7th. Lori will get to see only one of his performances as she’s going to her Mom’s. We didn’t know when the play was but it is what it is. She’s bummed as usually she goes to every performance meaning every show when he’s in a play but is excited to see her Mom. Guess this year I’ll be going to all three shows as usually I’m the one that goes to only one show.

Jag went to Emma’s after she was done skiing from about 2 until 10. Courtney, Emma’s mom, drove him both ways which was great so we didn’t have to stay up and go get him. Earlier in the morning, after the gym, we met with Tom our architect. Looks like we have all finalized now as we picked out locations for the remaining few little things like faucets on the outside of the house and other little stuff like the concrete pad in the outside dog run. It’s finally coming together after two years of preparing and planning. We’re really excited!

We’re still not sure if we can go to Arizona next week for Garth Brooks. If not we’ll be giving Robi and Robert our Club Level tickets which are supposedly really good seats. Hope we can go, we still have our flights but need to decide in the next few days.

Have a good day! Who’s having corn beef? I love it but it’s too salty for me and Lori thinks it’s too fatty. (of course she does, ha) God Bless.

In the morning we dropped Ty for the Ski Day and Jag and I headed to Denver. After hitting Tom and Ali’s, the bank and the car wash, we headed downtown to get him some new clothes. We went to one of my favorite stores that has vintage motorcycles, fly rods and fine European rifles and shotguns, a true gentlemen’s store much like one you’d find in London. Although the motorcycles are not for sale, Mark (the owner) carries great gear and great clothes that you don’t find anywhere else. 2 hours and 6 shopping bags later we left and had a couple more stops before heading up the hill for lacrosse practice at 4. Jag brought home some really cool new much needed clothes from jeans to shirts to a new suede jacket. I found a couple fun pieces too.

After practice Ty went with Zoe to Dana’s to swim and hang out. I picked him up at 10. Jag and Lori and I came home and hung out. This morning the boys have haircuts at 10:30 and Lori and I are meeting Tom our architect to finalize the last few changes on the house. Not sure what we’re doing then as our lacrosse game was cancelled. We might go to Denver for a “Ty Day”, we’ll see how much homework he has.

Lori woke up early and beat me downstairs which is unusual. She’s excited to go see Dixie on her birthday which is 3 weeks from this weekend. We’re trying to find the best time for us all to go out and see her. Looks like right after school is out will be the best time. Speaking of time, time to go to the gym! Hope everyone is well. I’ll skip politics today even though yesterday some democrats were even blaming Chelsea Clinton for the shooting in New Zealand, ha! Others of course were blaming the NRA and even though I didn’t hear anyone blame Trump or the Russians, I’m sure some did or that’s coming. Nothing much surprises me anymore. Take care, God Bless.

Today is the All School Ski Day where the entire school pairs up with kids from other grades and skis. Jag and I are going to Denver as he’s not skiing this year as you know. Ty will be on the mountain with his class. Then there’s lacrosse practice from 4 until 5:30.

Yesterday around 6 the boys game started. It was only 24 degrees which isn’t that cold but the wind chill was 10 below. I had on two coats including my Canada Goose Expedition coat and was still cold. The wind up here cuts through you no matter what you’re wearing. The boys were really cold, almost frozen around 7:30 when the game was over. Hopefully tomorrow in Glenwood it’ll be warmer.

The Dems are continuing to trot out the Stupid Parade with Beto (real name Robert) now joining the race for President. These candidates are so detached from reality that Trump will probably be elected again. All he needs to do is sit back and watch them do their thing. Pelosi now wants 16 year old’s to vote so as she says, “we can capture them in high school”, while others want socialism to come to America. I guess none of them have ever heard of Chairman Mao, Joseph Stalin, Hugo Chavez or Fidel Castro, wow. They should have paid attention in history class when in school. Well have to wait and see what happens as a lot of Americans are just plain flat out ignorant and think that socialism means they don’t have to work and they’ll get a bunch of free stuff. All great empires come to an end from the Roman Empire on and we’re getting close to imploding ourselves. Hold on.

Guess I’ll go so I can get moving. The house is coming along. Good news is with our loan we pay interest only on the amount the contractor draws meaning we shouldn’t ever have two house payments. Our interest rate is even lower than what we’re paying now so we’ll actually save money too! One loan will just replace the other so our cost is about the same, yea! I think we get our permits going next week as the structural engineer is almost done and then we should break ground around the first week of April! Some people couldn’t handle the process of building a house but I’m actually enjoying it. Lots to learn but lots of fun and a great experience. I’m involving the boys as we get going so they understand how it works. It’ll be a good experience for them too.

Have a great day, GB.

Fill in the blanks. If you can’t, go see a doctor! Yes there’s a little more snow outside this morning but nothing like we’ve seen. I think it’s winding down but we’ll see. Today we have a lacrosse game and even though there’s a lot of snow and it’ll be cold, it’ll be game on. Here’s a pic from last Friday.

That’s Jag but notice the snow pile behind him from clearing the field. The worst thing is all the parking lots, everywhere, have lost half or more of their slots as the plows have piled snow up into them as there’s nowhere else to put it. Springtime in the Rockies!

Practice was cancelled last night as well as all other after school activities. Lori has a fever so she’s been felling pretty crappy. We met with the college counselor yesterday and need to get a list of schools Jag is interested in started. Right now Baylor is sort of standing out. The campus is beautiful and it’s fairly close. We wish he’d look at CU as it’s a great school but kids here all seem to want to go somewhere else. It’s funny as when I was in Southern California everyone I talked to told me their kids wanted to come to Colorado. The counselor said the same thing, kids from the west coast to the east all want to come to Colorado. We’ll see.

Speaking of college, how about the scandal with all the rich and famous buying their kids way in to top schools, nice. I guess the ring leader was an old coach at Lori’s school, ha. They should face prison time but since they’re all democrats, it’s unlikely. It’s kind of a shocker but not really all that surprising, right?

I guess Denver is still shut down. Flights are virtually all cancelled and schools still closed. The good thing about all this snow is we should have no water issues this summer. This should help with fires too as it won’t be so dry.

It’s almost 6 so time to get moving. I was up early to take the doggies out. Lori and I both worked out yesterday. I’m thinking of starting to ride a road bike again to burn off those few stubborn pounds that’ll only go away with intense intervals of cardio. The biggest enemy is food. It’s such a drug in itself. We should all eat pretty much just vegetables, fish and a little chicken and beef but what fun is that, ha. God Bless.

Well the boys won their game and Jag had a great assist and a shot that was barely blocked. Ty played well too. The varsity team lost 6 to 5 in a heart breaker. It was cold as usual and our game ended at around 9. We made it home just before 10. Ty is up early working on some work and I need to get Jag up in a few minutes. Lori’s off to the gym and I’ll drop the kids at 7:30.

Tonight we have an event for 11th grade parents at 5:30 but need to pick the boys up from practice at 6:30. I made it down and up in good time yesterday missing the storm. Not much of a storm up here but everyone in Denver was freaking out yesterday. You would have thought they were getting feet of snow. Right now it’s raining down there.

Not sure yet if we’ll be able to go to Arizona next week, we need to decide today or we’ll get charged for our hotel. We have a few family things going on that might make us cancel. If so we’re giving our Garth Brooks tickets to Robi and Robert. Time to go, have a great day and GB.

I rolled out of bed at 5:05 this morning as Mojo woke me and had to go out. That’s ok as I need to go to Denver meaning I need to take Harley at 7 to daycare. Both boys lacrosse helmets arrived yesterday and Lori helped them put their decals on them from school. They’re pretty bad ass looking. Tonight at 6 and 7:30 they have games in Eagle so they’ll get home late. Not sure if Lori and I will drive down valley or not.

We’re making progress daily on the house. Yesterday I had to get a Builders Risk policy for our bank and we should be finalizing a few changes with the architect and builder later this week. It’ll be really nice once it’s done. Building a house is quite the experience but something really fun to do. My brother will never probably move but he’d really enjoy the process.

More snow tomorrow here and in Denver and then we’re hoping that’s it for the season. They always say March is the snowiest month and this year they’re right. Work is busy for both of us but that’s normal.

Dixie has a big birthday coming up. Not sure what number but Lori is going out to see her right before we go to Hawaii. We’re excited to get to the beach after this winter. In hindsight we should have gone in February as we usually do as it helps break up the winter.

That’s it, time to get moving so I’m out the door on time. Have a great day, as usual, be safe and take care and God Bless.

To start the week off, I think I need to take Mojo in today as he’s not eating much and has a cough. Hope it’s nothing serious but he is getting older. Meanwhile Harley has weepy eyes and an ear infection. Whoo hoo.

We overslept and it’s now 6:50 in the morning with both boys still in bed. Avalanches are still going on up here with the Pass closed again yesterday. They say we could see many more in the next few weeks. After we get past Wednesday it looks like nice weather through at least next Wednesday. That’ll be a nice change and hopefully Spring is right around the corner. Even Ty said he’s ready for warm weather and he’s our snowman of the family.

Ty went to see the new Captain America movie after theater practice and Jag did some work here at home. Practice again today and then a game tomorrow, Thursday and Saturday. It’s a busy week, GB.

First off, lacrosse is a violent sport, maybe as much as football. You can whack guys with sticks, body them up and down the field and even knock them out head on with as vicious hit as you want as long as it’s not from behind. In our games, and there was plenty of that. In the varsity game, in a driving snowstorm, we lost 11 to 10 in triple overtime, ugh. Then in JV we got killed but that’s ok as it was many kids, including ours, first game ever. Jag and Ty both looked like monsters in their shoulder pads and helmets and other gear. Jag had a really good hit on a kid and laid him out knocking him off both feet. By the way, Jag is on creatine and amino acids and working out with a trainer and getting stronger every day. He weighs somewhere between 155 and 160 but trust me, it’s all muscle. Ty too checked a few kids, even ones much larger than him. One hit by Jag’s buddy Nick, who’s a ski racer, dislocated a kids knee or knee cap, one of the two, ouch. So all in all it was fun. We have games Tuesday and Thursday of this week as well.

Today Ty has theater practice at 11, he’s in the play Chicago coming up in a month. Harley woke me at 6 which was really 5 (due to daylight saving time) and then I went back to bed until about 8.

Not sure if it’ll snow today or not. We were blocked in yesterday morning until the plows came due to drifts from the wind. We’re getting close to breaking ground on the new house, maybe like 2 or 3 weeks, if the snow will stop. Lori and I did run to Costco yesterday and there was barely any snow down in Eagle which is one of the main reasons we’re moving 20 minutes down valley.

Lots to do around here as usual. I need to get on the garage today and would love to take a trip to the storage unit but first I need to get rid of some crap in the storage unit. That doesn’t make much sense does it.

We picked up a really cool new camera on Friday via bartering. It’s a prosumer camera meaning a cross between a professional and consumer camera. It’s super easy to use and if you want, you can manually dial up all kinds of settings on your own as the pros do. I love good cameras, in fact I love anything that is really well engineered from cars to watches to cameras to guns. The Germans and the Japanese seem to lead the pack here but when it comes to cameras or glass and lenses in general, and cars, it’s the Germans. It’s the Swiss for watches and the Japanese for computers and tech, just an fyi. Us Americans do excel at firearms along with the Germans. There’s your lesson for the day.

That’s about it, oh wait, AOC, the whacko Democrat that seems to be taking the democratic party away from Pelosi and the old timers slammed FDR (Franklin Roosevelt) and Ronald Reagan yesterday along with Capitalism. Watch out people, the millennials along with other uneducated young people are going to embrace socialism as they aren’t old or smart enough to know and understand what it really is. Many don’t even know who Joseph Stalin is. Hold on as the next few decades are going to get bumpy. God Bless.

I made it to Denver by 9 am and was on the way back up by 11:45. I just made it over the pass before the snow started. It got worse as the day went on and was really bad by 5 pm. Then it started blowing sideways and is still going this morning. Highway 24 from Minturn to Leadville was closed due to an avalanche and Vail Pass was closed again too. Not sure how we’ll have lacrosse today at 3 but we’ll see. The team from Steamboat is supposed to come over. They cut practice short last night and cancelled the parent meeting too. In our driveway we have a few drifts I need to shovel through to get to the gym.

This has been the snowiest year I can ever remember and I remember most of them. Hopefully it’ll start winding down in a week or so.

Now to our politicians. Yesterday the Democrats voted to let illegal immigrants vote. So, they’ve been screaming about Russian interference in our elections for years and found no collusion and now they want to let illegal immigrants vote. Did they ever think some of these illegals could be Russians? If they (the Russians) really want to interfere in our elections, all they would need to do is send enough people to specific districts to sway specific races. They don’t have to send million and millions of people, it could be as few as a few hundred to the right districts to change the course of our democracy. Freakin Idiots. Oh and now they want to subpoena any and everyone Trump did business with BEFORE he was President as like I said before, they couldn’t find any collusion. Listen up, no one cares what he did in business! Last they refuse to condemn the Muslim congresswoman from Minnesota who is anti-semitic and anti-american, wow. If you’re a democrat, you’d better take a long hard look at what your representatives are doing. Real democrats like John Kennedy must be rolling over in their graves. Omar, the Muslim, is now even trashing Obama and the dems are silent, maybe she’s their new leader? What a fucked up Country we have right now. Time to kick them all out of office and put in term limits!

God Bless

Vail Pass was closed all day until late in the night. Not sure when it opened but this morning I’m giving it a try as I have a meeting in Denver. The boys had lacrosse as they do every day and both have a game tomorrow at 4. We can’t wait to see the game as it’s a new sport for us too.

Lori worked from 8 until 6 and will be busy again today. It was warm and slushy around here all day with things melting which I guess contributed to the avalanches. Hope I make it down and up with no delays.

Talked with Tom yesterday for a bit and Lori is having Dr. C. look at Ali’s MRI today. The news is saying more snow this afternoon and tomorrow so I need to get going. Have a great day, GB.