A Year of Change

Ok, we knew everyone came to Minturn the night before Halloween but had no idea what “everyone” meant. There were literally over 1000 kids and a stream of headlights coming into town that rivaled a concert a Red Rocks. Thankfully with us up on the hill we just watched most of it as the hoard stayed pretty much in town on the main street. Our boys and Ty’s friend Warner (who spent the night) took off around 5:30 and were gone until a bit after 8. They met up with Eva who is in Ty and Warner’s class. Jagger met up with some friends in town too soon after they left.

All the kids came back to the house where we had hot apple cider waiting for them as it was cold. Finally Eva’s Mom showed up to pick her up. All the kids must have had over 100 pieces of candy or more and yes, tonight, they do it all again.

I made it to Denver by 8:40 am and 3 hours later, after bringing the sewer guy donuts and giving him a few bottles of wine, our sewer pipe is clean and in good shape. So we’re all done on our end inspection wise and hopefully we can close within the month of November.

Tonight I’m going to our party as Clint Eastwood and Lori as Shirley McClaine in 2 Mules For Sister Sara. This is the movie where Shirley McClaine played a nun (which is how Lori will dress up ) that turns out not to be a nun after all. She’s going to wear two Moscow Mule cups around the waist of her nun costume so our theme comes together. Should be a fun party at Dr. C’s. She’s the only one on her team who dressed up yesterday (good for her) but lots of others in the hospital did. She wore her 60’s go go outfit which she always looks cute in.

Time to run, everyone is still sleeping. It’s clear and a little cool but no snow on the ground. November 1st tomorrow, time for Uncle Tommy to get that Christmas tree up!

God Bless.

Today the kids dress up at school, Lori dresses up at work and well, I just work. I need to run back down to the house in Denver to meet the sewer guys and then beat it back up the hill. The kids will trick or treat tonight in Minturn and then again tomorrow around Vail and Lori and I go to a party. Then Sunday is the big game with me a some guys (it’s a night game so too late for the wife or kiddos) so I have a busy weekend. I’m just praying that the sewer pipe just needs to be cleaned and not replaced.

I fixed the basement stairs and fireplace doors yesterday while the furnace guy was there for over 3 hours trying to figure out what was going on. In the end we managed to get it fixed so after the sewer, we should be good to go.

I need to run as I need to be in Denver by 9 so time to go, God Bless

Ok, I didn’t really ride a bucking bronco but I did slip and fall on some ice yesterday and today I FEEL like I rode a bucking bronco yesterday. I’m fine, just have a small bruise on my forearm and my side, specifically my ribs feel like well, I rode a bucking bronco. No worries though, I’ll be fine.

I think I’m headed to Denver tomorrow as our sewer pipe is getting cleaned out at 9 am. Pray the pipe doesn’t need to be replaced. The few other things are small like fixing the fireplace door, reinforce a basement step and a couple of small things with the furnace that the furnace guy can fix in 20 minutes. Other than that it looks like we’ll pass the inspection. Hopefully the entire list will only cost about $1500 to $2000, if we don’t need a whole new sewer pipe.

The Republican debate was last night and was pretty good as they didn’t let themselves get sucked into stupid questions by the liberal moderators. Even the crowd in supposedly liberal Boulder boo’d the moderators several times.

I made a lamb roast last night that was pretty good. Lamb just gets overcooked so fast. Tomorrow is Halloween here and then again Saturday so lots to do. Guess I’ll run as it’s 6:48 am, take care and yes, God Bless!

Lori and I headed down to Denver yesterday for some errands and left around 2pm from downtown to head back up the hill. About Georgetown it really started to snow. We made it up and through the tunnel and then down to Frisco. By the time we made it to Vail pass it was really coming down. We made it up and over just in time before they closed the pass down going east. A few semi trucks were jack knifed blocking the road as they didn’t have chains on and spun out. Going west wasn’t as much of an issue but I guess it got a little worse as time went on. In any case, it was a bit milder in Minturn and we settled in for the night.

Today we need to work on the kids costumes and ours as Halloween comes early in Minturn. I guess people from all over the valley come here on Friday night and it’s sort of a tradition. Then Saturday night, Halloween,  they do it all over again.

I have a couple of calls today and we’re waiting to hear  more about the house inspection. We already found out that the sewer from the street to the house needs to be cleaned out as they sent us a scope or video of it. We need to pay for that and probably whatever else comes through. Hope it’s not too bad. Time to run, hope everyone is well, God Bless.

Well it’s been a good long time since we’ve had any comments. We’re beginning to think no one is out there. Tonight it’s going to be 19 degrees up here and 30 in Denver. Winter is coming, hope you all are prepared. It was nice yesterday after a rainy morning.

Our inspection was yesterday afternoon and now we just need to wait for the report. What we need to do is come up with our Halloween costumes stat! That’s doctor talk for right away. Guess I’ll run as it’s almost 6 am. Hope you all are well, if you’re out there, GB

It’s going to be much cooler this week. It’s ok right now but is supposed to be in the 40’s or 50’s all week with the lows in the 20’s or teens. Today we have our appraisal and inspection down in Lakewood. Hopefully both will go well.

Both Lori and my email are down. Apparently when we switched our accounts from Lakewood to Vail, our accounts were attached to our Lakewood modems and when they cycled through the last month of service and shut down, (Saturday), our email accounts shut down with them, super. So now they tell us 48 hours from this morning to get them switched over to our modems up here. So if you need something, you’d better call!

Lori and I are going to try to go to Denver tomorrow and will know later today. She has clinic and I had two quarterly reviews move yesterday morning from today to tomorrow that I’m now trying to move again, we’ll see.

Lori, Jag, Mojo and I went for an hour hike yesterday up the nordic trails behind the ski and snowboard academy. It was really beautiful and probably the last weekend you could do this before the snow hits. We’re trying to get everything handled up here but it’s a constant battle. We’re juggling finances as the kids need something every day we turn around. This week, or next, we need to get their ski passes, uggh. Before you know it, it’ll be Thanksgiving and then Christmas. On top of that, Lori and I are going to Las Vegas, for work, in early December for a big Bocelli concert and event.

Time to run as it’s almost 7 am and the kids have less than an hour before they leave and of course, they’re both still in bed. God Bless.

We made it back around 7pm after cleaning the garage and doing a few other things around the house. Today I think we’re going for a hike. It was pretty warm in Denver and the boys had some good play time outside. We fell asleep pretty early last night and are all refreshed this morning. No Broncos today but we do need to get some Halloween costumes together for the party in 6 days. That’s about it, hope all’s well, God Bless.

We made it down last night around 5:30 and soon Ty was off with Ben and Jag with Katie. Lori’s friend Andrea came over and stayed until around 11pm visiting. This morning I’m on a call I organized which is a new men’s group and the we’re off to get Jag a haircut and then I’m cleaning the garage. That’s it, lots to do, so time to run, God Bless

Today is my little sister Robin’s birthday! Whoo hoo, party party! Hope it’s a good one. Your present from us is a few days late according to the shipper, sorry.

We finally have snow up here, not much but it’s a start. The top of the ski slopes and the pass (Vail) are getting a pretty good dose but not enough to open the ski areas just yet. No big as we haven’t been able to get the kids ski passes yet anyhow. Jag had dry land training again yesterday and all the kids were running in the rain/snow mix outside and then did some core work inside. It’s pretty darn hard.

Today we’ll grab them after school and head down to Denver until tomorrow night or Sunday morning depending how much work we get done on the house. Lori made it home around 7 pm last night as clinic ran late. I have a couple of conference calls today and then should be done.

Hope all’s well, have a great day, God Bless.

This morning at 7, Lori has her first official sales meeting. She was working on it last night and has a bunch of ideas for making things more efficient and profitable. She’s only been there for about 10 weeks now.

I made it back from Denver by 1 in the afternoon and that included stopping for groceries. I loaded up 4 more boxes from the house that are still in the back of the truck. Tomorrow after work we’re headed down to Denver to work on cleaning out closets, dressers and the garage before the inspection on Monday. Say a prayer that we pass the inspection as then things should be pretty much a go.

Jag had his first dry land training yesterday with the Nordic Ski Team and it consisted of running up a mountain for 1 and 1/2 hours! Amazingly he made it and outlasted some other kids. There were some kids in high school that beat him but not many. He was tired and sweaty when I picked him up at 5:45 pm. Today he’ll be back at it at 4:15.

Guess I’ll run so I can get things started around here (breakfast and stuff) as Lori needs to leave early. It’s 5:28 now so time to run. Take care and God Bless.