A Year of Change

Man you sure accumulate a lot of stuff, and junk, in 16 years. It’s fun when you find something you’ve been looking for for a long time but there’s a lot of stuff that makes you wonder, why did I ever buy that! I think it’s human nature to hold onto just about everything thinking you’ll use it someday. Well, that doesn’t seem to be true and now it’s just time to let that nondescript 70’s sweater from high school go!

I made it down by 9:30 and then had to run around town until about 12:30 when I started on the house. I made a trip to the dump about 2:30 and then came back to work some more. Lori and the boys sat in traffic due to road paving and finally made it a bit after 6pm. Today is the big day, lots to do and we should probably also have a garage sale.

We slept on the floor on old mattresses and Mojo slept right next to me. He’s the reason I’m up at 5 as he jumped up looking for breakfast.

Sad about all the people whose lives were cut short in Paris. In my opinion, Europe is done. They have just let in too many people who won’t assimilate into their new country’s culture but rather want to take it over. Of course our Pres wants to bring in over 200,000 so called refugees and more. Mark my words, sooner rather than later, and I do mean sooner, this type of carnage will be coming to a town near you in the U.S. Enough said.

God Bless those who died and their family’s as they will be scared forever over misguided ideology. This problem will not go away as all these senseless acts do is fuel the cycle. Now authorities, rightly so, will increase pressure on muslim groups and then they will resent the so called infidels (us and other non-muslims) even more and attacks such as these will continue. You see, they see this as a war when in fact, it is a lie perpetuated by sick twisted people who influence those who have nothing to lose. No religion or prophet says go kill, this is just there interpretation and I’m afraid it’s now too late to stop.

Sadly we live in a different World, get right with God and hope for the best but prepare for the worst!

GB

I’m off to Denver this morning and Lori will come down with the boys this afternoon. I hope to get the garage and basement cleaned out so we can focus on the kitchen, mud room, closets and bedrooms on Saturday. We’re all stressed out these days and need a freakin break. No time to go into details, God Bless

That’s the menu for the day, nordic after school and 4 basketball games in which our boys play in 3 of them. It cleared up yesterday afternoon but we still have snow and it’s cold this morning although I just took Mojo out in bare feet and boxers so it isn’t all that bad. Lori had a good day at work and we’re trying to figure out how to get everything packed and out of our house in 10 days.

Everyone but Mojo is still sleeping. We’re trying to figure out our holiday plans as now if our house closes early, we’ll have no backyard to put Mojo in for Thanksgiving. We’re also not sure what to do with him at Christmas. We do have a neighbor girl, must be in her mid 20’s, who is a ski coach who loves Mojo and hopefully can look after him. We’ll figure something out.

I have a few issues at work which is normal for this time of year but should be able to work them out. Hope all’s well, take care, have a great day and God Bless. And remember, there’s only 43 days until Christmas and more importantly, 47 until my birthday! Ha ha

It’s here, the white stuff, and a bunch of it, like 8 to 10 inches. Lucky I didn’t book a flight to Dallas for today as I almost did last week. It’s supposed to stop today and then clear out but it’s here to stay, probably until mid April.

I was talking to our realtor last night and now we could close as soon as next Monday but no way we can get everything out by then so I’m shooting for a week from Monday. Lots of work to get done at the house.

Ty had a bad dream so he woke us up around 4am. Everyone but Jag is up. Mojo loves the snow, big time. It makes him jump around and he gets all frisky. My trip to Denver was quick as I was back up here by 1:30 and that included a stop at the grocery store in Frisco. I have a couple calls this morning, 3 to be exact, and then will be done for the day. I should probably go to Denver tomorrow or Friday morning for sure to get a jump on the house. That’s it, we need to get our ski passes today, $2105 for the three of us boys! You should all buy stock in Vail Resorts! This year though, we’ll get our money’s worth as the kids ski every single Friday at school. Jag has nordic training today which should be a blast with all the new snow. Basketball tomorrow, after nordic and then nordic on Friday too.

Last, Happy Veteran’s Day to Grandpa Jim and anyone else I missed!

Time to run, hope all’s well, God Bless

I need to make a quick trip down and hopefully I’ll get back up before the snow hits. No time to write much as I’m already late.

Jag had nordic and was on skis for the first time yesterday and then I rushed him to basketball for a game at 6pm. Meanwhile Ty played his game at 4pm and then I dropped him and his friend at the house. Lori has a sore throat and the boys aren’t feeling too well either. Guess it’s going around up here. Time to run, God Bless.

We managed to get through our room, Ty’s room and the guest room pretty much all the way. We still need to do Jag’s room and then the rest of the house. We have a little bump (of course) in the sale as the house our buyers are selling didn’t appraise for what they thought it would and they now need some cash. I should be getting paid as I’ve now taken charge of the deal and told my realtor and theirs what to do and how to handle it. It’ll probably cost us a little money but everyone is kicking in. Hopefully I’ll get it all handled today.

We made it back up by 2:30 for me to watch the Bronco’s lose. Green Bay lost also so it wasn’t a good football day. Lori and I are sore from sleeping on the floor and cleaning. We did get Ty’s bed set up and I need to go to the dump today with the old mattresses.

Time to run, God Bless.

After 16 years in one spot, you sure accumulate a lot of junk. While we’re finding some fun stuff we misplaced, we’re also finding more stuff we just don’t need. The trash man will be busy this week. I hired James to move most of the furniture and boxes to our storage unit. The heaviest thing in the house is a gun safe that was in our bedroom. He and his buddy Larry and I moved that to the garage yesterday. Now it’s just boxes, tables, couches and chairs. We joked that our Christmas present to each other is getting James to move stuff so we don’t have to. I didn’t want to spend the money on him but we just can’t be down here all the time and he can move stuff out during the week. I did think he had his big U Haul truck which is why I hired him, but yesterday he asked me if I still had my trailer, which I don’t, so now I’ll need to probably rent him a trailer on top of paying him as he says his truck is full of stuff,  hmmm, didn’t see that coming.

I also need to get our ski passes by November 15th as that’s when they stop selling them for the season. Normally I don’t like to mention or dwell on bills in the blog but it’s crunch time and we’re just hanging on.

I guess the people moving into our house came and trick and treated as a family in the neighborhood for Halloween. We also received some mail from Geico addressed to them the other day so hopefully that means they’re really buying the house! They’re supposed to close on their house tomorrow and if that goes well, then there should be no more road blocks, except for us getting everything out of here!

Today we’ll keep working upstairs trying to get that all done so next week we can focus on the main floor. Of course the kids rooms are the biggest obstacle. We’ll be here today until after the Bronco game. I might go down to Uncle Tommy’s to watch it or maybe my Mom’s, if one of them will have me. Meanwhile Lori will keep at it upstairs.

Ty slept with Mom in his bed last night and Jag joined me on the floor in our room. My side was feeling better from when I fell on the ice a week ago but the last two nights has brought it back up.

Aunt Robi, you’re all set for the Bocelli concert on December 2nd. When I get the tickets I’ll call and mail them down to you. Wish we could join you but we have to go to Las Vegas two days later.

Grandma Dixie is coming for Christmas so we need to figure that out (where everyone is staying and when we’ll go to Denver and where we’ll stay there) and then we’re all going to Denver for Thanksgiving. Lori and I want to go to a beach, bad! Our friend in Aspen who has the home in Belieze says it’s open the first three weeks in December and we’d love to go but don’t think we have the time. It sleeps 12 so if we all want to go, post a comment!

Time to run, Go Bronco’s. We’re down next weekend too and I’ll be going to the game and its supposed to snow down here, whoo hoo, I love those games! Take care and God Bless.

Good morning, it’s O six hundred in the morning meaning 6 am and it’s dark outside. I’m the only one up and need to go get some food, coffee and wash at least one of the cars within the hour. We made it down around 4:30 yesterday after sitting in 10 mile an hour traffic over Vail pass. We brought two cars so we can bring Ty’s bed back up with us.

Jag and I stopped at the bank while Lori dropped Ty at Vinny’s. Then the three of us went to Elways for dinner. We made it back around 7:30 and started to clean out our night stands. Lori then went to pick up Ty and we then took the two twin mattresses and put them on the floor in our room for our bed. It wasn’t very comfortable but better than Ty’s bed for us two and Ty who would join us in the middle of the night.

It’s still dark which is surprising as I thought by moving the clocks back an hour it’d be light by now. Oh well, time to run, hope all’s well, we’ll be starting the day by cleaning out all the furniture. We also hope to sell some to the neighbors so come on by if you need a couch or some chairs! GB

Yes it snowed and yes we had 3 plus more hours of basketball. Jag played in two games again and played well as did Ty who played in one. It’s hard though as we never get home until 7:30 with the kids going straight from school. We’re headed to Denver today, probably in two cars so we can bring one of the kids beds back up Sunday. I managed to get a lot of work done yesterday which is good as did Lori. She got to help tighten her first halo (the thing you screw into someones skull) which was a big deal. Time to run, hope all’s well, GB

Snow, that is. I made it down and up yesterday without hitting much of anything on the ground but it was snowing most of the way. By the time I arrived home, I had to get right back in the car to take Jag to nordic training and then go to Walgreens and then pick up Ty and then go to Sports Authority and then back to pick up Jag and then, finally, went home.

Lori whipped up some good leftovers and we all had dinner before settling down for the night. We awoke to 4 or 5 inches of the white stuff on the cars and ground. It’s now 7am and we need to leave within the hour. I’ll probably need to drive everyone as Lori’s car is almost out of gas. I did get her car fixed at the dealer yesterday and it turned out there were two recalls from Chevrolet that needed to be fixed too so it was good timing.

Mojo likes the snow of course. I have a few things to do around here today and we have more basketball games tonight and then tomorrow night we’ll head to Denver to start cleaning out the house. That’s it, time to run, God Bless.