A Year of Change

I was at the dump by 8, washed the truck by 8:30, had breakfast and was on the way home by 9. Lots of other work during the day. Joey, our appliance guy, did show up around 11 and fixed the dryer and then we went up to Davy’s to fix some of his stuff.

I have a call at 9 this morning so we’ll need to get to the gym before that. Lori works from home today. She had a bad headache yesterday. Our accountant called and thanks to the Big Beautiful Bill signed earlier this year, you now get a 100% deduction (up from 60%), on vehicles you buy for your business. Since we have an S Corp, we can take advantage of this. This means if we buy a new vehicle, and it weighs over 6000 GVW, we can deduct 100% of the cost right off of our income. At a 35% tax rate, this saves $35K out of pocket or $3000 a month! With that, you can buy a really nice car and still be ahead about $1500 a month! We’ll see, tough decision as I love my truck.

Nice and cool outside right now. Not cold, just cool. Looks like a little rain between now and then end of the week, but nice on the weekend.

7am now so time to get moving. Have a great day, GB.

Good Bronco game, not great as we didn’t play as well as we should have, but good in the sense that we won! Ty had a blast along with 76,000 other people at the stadium. He made it home around 8 to Madi’s last night. She had fun too.

This week on Thursday morning I fly out to Seattle. I’ll be there for a total of 22 hours flying home Friday around noon. Saturday, we have the Black Crowes concert at Ford Amphitheater, think we’re somewhere in the first five rows. Then on Sunday Lori is having her team over for dinner here at the house. Busy week.

This morning my calls start at 10. I think Lori and I will take Harley on the 2-mile loop around the neighborhood in a few minutes. Ava is in Colorado Springs this morning for some off-site test or work session. She’ll be home this afternoon.

I’d like to make a run to the dump today. We’ll see as Lori wants to see everything I throw out before I throw it out. Might just load up a bunch of stuff and go. No one will miss it.

Annettee texted last night that there was no blog yesterday. For some reason, it didn’t post. The morning was a mess as my email was hacked and we needed to get it figured out to get Ty the Broncos tickets. A great guy named Glen called from the Broncos and fixed everything so all good. Not sure where the post went. Good job Annette!

Fall is on the way, should be here soon. I’m sure it’ll be here by the time we’re back from Italy. That’s about it, have a great day, God Bless.

Today Ty is doing a deep clean on his room. He doesn’t know it yet, as he’s still sleeping. But once awake, I’ll fill him in. There are certain responsibilities to living here for free and the biggest one is to keep his room clean. Lucky for him, he has the next four days off!

We were at Costco yesterday and yes; they have Christmas stuff out! Soon Spring clothes will be in the stores, ha. We only have 116 days left in the year! It’s trash day and we just threw out a bunch more stuff that needed to go. We’ll head to the gym this morning and then do some more cleaning once we get home.

CU football is on today, so we’ll weave that into the mix. Great football game last night as the Chiefs lost! Hope the Broncos win tomorrow and then we’ll be tied with the Chargers and a game up on the Chiefs. That’d be a good start to the season.

Clear and cooler today. It’s about 40 degrees outside right now. Should be a nice, pleasant day around 70 degrees.

7am now so time to get moving. Have a great day, God Bless.

Lots happening as usual. I did squeeze in time to hang with the guys from 4 until 5:30 for cigars. I’m sort of over smoking cigars these days, as I’ve said, but still good to see everyone.

Ty works this morning and my calls start at 8:30. I have a conference call with Italy at 10 and then should be done by 11 with my scheduled calls. I’m sure I’ll have a bunch more throughout the day.

I caught a chipmunk in one of my traps yesterday but released him unharmed (lucky guy), as I’m only after mice. I think I have most of the mice and we don’t want to get the chipmunks so I might stop using the traps outside. They all like peanut butter!

Football started last night, more tonight and then the Bronco’s on Sunday. Lori and I might go with Ty and Madi. We’ll see what the weather is like. If we stay home, Jagger and his buddy will go as Ava has a test for work.

I didn’t get to clean my office yesterday, hopefully I can today. Lori made lasagna which was good. 6:30am now so time to get moving. More shootings, stabbings, robberies and crime in Denver, nice. It used to be such a great city when we were growing up. Hard to understand why people vote democrat. If you want to be safe, move to a red State. Thankfully it seems America is waking up, everyone except the Democrats of course. Like I said yesterday, sometimes you just can’t fix stupid.

Have a great day, God Bless.

Here we go, first game is tonight and then we have another tomorrow before the Broncos play Sunday. Been a long time coming and we’re looking forward to it. We have cigars at 4, and I’ll go, but I might not smoke. I’ve cut way back these days.

Nice and cool outside this morning and last night. Perfect weather. It still gets warm during the day, like in the mid 80’s, but that’ll soon change.

Lori made it home around 7 last night and works from home the rest of the week. I have a call at 9 so I need to get going. Yesterday was a busy day, and today is shaping up that way too, God Bless.

We’re up! This morning at 4:30am! I heard the alarm on the fridge beeping and went out to check it out and then we were pretty much up for the morning. Lori works in Frisco and I’m working out at 7, so it’s ok. Can’t believe the fridge alarm is going off again. We just replaced the control board. I’ll call Joey, our repair guy, again this morning. Hopefully we don’t need to replace that again.

Looks like rain this weekend. Fall will be here soon. I’m going to tackle my office today and at least put all my books away.

Space Command is leaving Colorado and moving to Alabama, another feather in Polis’s cap, Great job Colorado (sarcasm) It’s so frustrating as the States run by Republicans are flourishing and growing while those run by Democrats are failing. You’d think they’d see a trend, but no, Democrats are just doubling down on things like supporting illegal criminals, men in women’s sports, no cash bail, and all the other issues 80% plus of America is against. Way to go guys! (more sarcasm) You just can’t fix stupid.

Graham Greene, the iconic American Indian actor, passed away yesterday after a long illness. If you don’t know who he is, you’d for sure recognize him. One of my favorite movies of his was Thunderheart with Val Kilmer some 33 years ago. He was 73, way too young.

Broncos game this Sunday! Ty wants to take friends, but we might go with him. We’ll see, we’ll probably let him go with his buddies. Football starts tomorrow.

6am now, time to get moving. Have a great day and God Bless.

Yesterday I cleaned out my closet and dresser from top to bottom. I have two big bags of mostly shirts and socks to donate. It took me until early afternoon to wrap it up. Glad to have that done. Today I’ll work on my office in between calls.

Ty is off today, and my calls start at 10 and Lori works in Vail. Nice and cool outside but it was hot yesterday. Just went to the gym for 2 miles on the treadmill and an hour or so of lifting. Need to get back on the horse with Italy coming up.

Time to hit the shower. Have a great day, take care and God Bless.

Happy Labor Day! September 1st, wow! Today signals the beginning of the end of 2025. Time flies. Hard to believe in about 120 days we’ll be celebrating 2026. Sounds surreal. We have four major holidays, at least four birthdays I can think of right now, and a change from summer to fall to winter. Here we go!

Ty works today and Lori has a Pilates session with Sara, her trainer, at 7. I’ll lift weights for an hour and then we’ll be done at 8am and go see Ty for breakfast. Football starts Thursday night, and the Broncos play in six days. 30 days from today we leave for Italy! Glad we live up here as the traffic to Denver today will be horrible.

Yesterday we went to the farmers market in Vail and have never see the village so packed with people. We didn’t stay long. Today we’ll hang around the house and clean up a bit. More shootings in Denver last night. I don’t mention it much anymore as it happens almost every single day.

We’ve pretty much decided we prefer northern Idaho over northern Montana as Montana seems to get a lot more smoke every year due to forest fires in Canada which are becoming the norm. You seem to get a lot more for your money in Idaho too. I think we’re going to work with a builder that has a lot and some plans and try to tweak the plans a bit. We’ll see. We’d like to go up and look around on the 5th with Ben and Eleni but I’m in Seattle the 11th and have a lot of work to do before then and don’t think I can swing it.

Today I’m cleaning out my closet and dresser. Need to accomplish something this weekend, ha. It was nice and cool outside last night. Must be in the 40’s, not cold, but just cool enough to let you know the weather will soon be changing.

6:21am now. Time to go water the hanging baskets outside. The news just said the Covid vaccine might be hard to get this year. Really? Who in their right mind would still get it knowing what we know now, unbelievable. Have a great last day of the three-day weekend and God Bless.

Last day of August and we’re smack dab in the middle of the 3-day weekend. Yesterday Marty and Mel came over for an early dinner and to hang out. Ty went golfing after work and was home by 8. He was paired up with a father and daughter and another guy. Our pork shoulder turned out great!

Today after the gym, we might go into town to the farmer’s market. We’ll decide later. Looks like less rain today but I did turn off the sprinklers yesterday as we’ve been getting good moisture.

Lots going on at work. All good, just lots to do. Jag did well picking his fantasy football team yesterday. He called for a little advice. We might start a family league for fun with Ava’s family.

6:40 am now, not much else to share today. Be well, God Bless.

Just started the smoker. Need it to get to 225 degrees before throwing on the pork shoulder. This is an eight-hour process to do it right, but that’s ok. Good things come to those that wait!

Tough game last night for CU. Tom and I were texting back and forth as we couldn’t stop their quarterback. We also didn’t use our last two timeouts at the end of the game. Big coaching mistake. I’m sure the internet is crushing our coach today.

Some friends want us to go to Octoberfest in Vail today, but not sure we can make it with the smoker going all day. We need to try to get to the gym too so I hope I can get the meat to 150 degrees by 9 or so. Marty and Mel are coming over later today, along with Davy and maybe Abbey. Her dad needs a stint for his heart, which he’s getting on Tuesday, so she might fly up to Michigan today.

Not sure when Ty works. It’s almost 6am now. It’s a nice Fall morning outside. Feels more like mid-September than late August, maybe even early October. Thought I heard a bear or something outside when I was getting the smoker ready. Couldn’t see anything with my flashlight but I heard him, or her. (don’t want to misgender the bear, ha)

Have a great day, it’s the first weekend of college football! God Bless.