While we’ll miss a lot of things about Denver, we sure won’t miss the traffic. We made it out of town by about 5:30 last night and as soon as we hit Evergreen, the highway was at a dead stop. I managed to get off and take old Highway 40 around most of it but it still took us over 2 hours for what should have been a 75 minute drive. What’s worse was the traffic in town. I had to go to Park Meadows earlier in the day and Lori’s drive to and from work were both horrendous. There’s just too many people on the roads, period.

Anyhow the five of us and Mojo, (Ty brought Jack along) made it here by 7:30 or so and settled in to the fresh mountain air. We had 4 people look at the house yesterday but no offers yet. We know how that goes though as we’ve looked at a lot of houses and haven’t made any offers either. Hopefully that’ll change soon as it’s hard to keep it clean.

This morning we’ll be in Eagle by 10am looking at 3 houses and then will take the boys to the Eagle County Fair. It’s an old time county fair like the ones my Mom and Grandma Dixie would have gone to when they were kids. We have to squeeze in some fun for the boys.

Mojo has been outside already, had his breakfast, and the coffee is on while everyone else is still sleeping. Guess I’ll run, hope all’s well, God Bless.

Before I go, one quick little warning from the Head of the Senate Intelligence Committee,

As I said the other day, it’s hard to keep the days straight. The computer and paper says today is Friday but if it wasn’t in writing, we wouldn’t be sure. Yesterday I had some running around to do and have some more today.

We’re hoping Lori can get out of work a few hours early today so we can get a jump on the weekend traffic. Last week we left at 4pm which was just about perfect as it put us up in the mountains by about 6 after stopping at the grocery store.

So yesterday we had a terrorist attack in a gun free zone. Can anyone explain why the armed forces are not armed? Apparently some guy from Yemen who was being watched, went and shot up a couple of recruiting centers back east. Not good. Of course many other countries deal with this kind of tragedy weekly or daily. When something like this happens here, it’s non stop 24 hour coverage on every single channel. The thing that amazes me is that anyone is surprised by this. It’s just a matter of time before it becomes more and more frequent. If anything, I’m surprised it hasn’t happened more, like way more. These people don’t care about life, are delusional and 100% committed to destroying us. We were talking as a family how and why people join up and many of them are people or kids that our society casts out or in some cases has bullied (when they were kids) and then some radical faction comes along and takes them in and gives them a sense of belonging. Social media doesn’t help either as people can reach across borders and indoctrinate kids right in their own bedroom. I often say electronics are like a drug. Kids are sucked in and many believe anything they read. Rudy Guiliani says get ready as this is the new normal. Of course just wait as I’m sure the govt will somehow use this to suppress more and more of our rights. I’ll stop now but as they say, keep your powder dry.

Guess I’ll run, hope all’s well, take care and God Bless.

We’re turned so upside down I don’t even know what to write today. Yesterday we were up and down from Eagle by 2pm and then Lori rushed off to work. Today I have just about as much driving but it’s all in the Denver area. I ended up taking Ty back to the doctor as he’s still trying to kick his cold or cough or whatever it is. Hopefully the steroid inhaler they gave us will work.

The days seem to be just running together and as Lori says, we just don’t seem to have enough time to get things done. Maybe if we had one 100 hour day, we could both get caught up.

Our morning showing cancelled but the afternoon people supposedly really loved the house, but no offer yet. It’s only been a day and a half but come on! Maybe today, say a prayer!

That’s it, time to run, hope all’s well, God Bless.

Ok, everyone say a prayer our house sells today. Now I know that’d be a miracle but it doesn’t hurt to pray. In fact, the power of prayer is pretty powerful, don’t underestimate it.

We had our first showing last night but I think it was a guy who flips houses as he looked like he just came off a job and was by himself except with the realtor.  This morning at 9:30 we have another one but we’ll be in the mountains at a school. Then we need to rush down the hill as Lori has an interview at 2:45.

The house is literally the cleanest it’s ever been, even cleaner than when we moved in! Not sure how long we can keep it this way, it’s hard.

Time to run as it’s 5:43 and we need to all be showered and on the road by 7. We’d better get used to it as this is about the same time we’ll need to be up and moving for school in a little more than a month.

Take care and God Bless.

I managed to get samples boxed up and sent off to the East Coast yesterday which freed up some space in the kitchen. Then it was time to clean up the mess I had made. Our house officially went on the market yesterday but we are fine tuning the brochure and MLS listing as there were some mistakes which there always are. They had listed us as having wood siding and as a Cape Cod style house and had the schools wrong, but it will all be fixed by 8:30 this morning. Although it’s a lot of work, it’s kind of exciting.

This morning I’m running to the distributor to get Aunt Ali some wine before it’s all gone. She likes a particular kind we’re closing out, wouldn’t you know it.

It’s 5:15 am and the Pres was just on tv talking about a deal he’s making with Iran. The kicker here is that we gave Iran the ability to have 14 days notice of any inspection, yea, that’ll work. In return, we will release over $100 Billion dollars to them. These are the guys who chant death to America daily. He’s one tough negotiator, (that’s sarcasm) . This administration is such a mess they’d even make Hillary look like an upgrade which is saying a lot. God help us.

Guess I’ll run, time to start the day. Hope all’s well, God Bless.

Here we go, first problem is Lori’s back has been out for 2 or 3 days now. She’s not doing well. The older you get and the more often it goes out, the worse it gets. Hopefully she can get it loosened up soon. She needs to get back to Pilates and Yoga when we get to the mountains.

Yesterday I boxed up 15 boxes of wine and have 11 more this morning and then it’ll be off to Fed Ex. I did make it to the gym which was long overdue. First up today I have my Monday morning conference call and need to clean up a bit more in the basement. Maybe I can get some wine boxed before the call.

It was hot here yesterday, like in the high 90’s but will be cooler, thankfully, today. Time to run, hope all’s well, God Bless.

7am at 8000 feet, I just took Mojo for his morning walk up the hill and now need to get moving. Today I need to clean out our basement and my office and we need to put a bunch of boxes and clothes away or take them to storage. I think Jag and Ty are going with Vinny to the lake where his parents have a boat. We’ll know more when we get down the hill.

Yesterday we looked at a bunch of houses. There are some amazing deals up here with owner financing but they just didn’t fit. Either the kitchen was too small for the house or the layout was really funky (you should have seen this one!), or something else was just not right. Most all of them have nice mother in law apartments for visitors! The big pressure for us is where the kids will go to school. If we can get into Eagle Ranch the kids can go to public school in Eagle. Lots to do.

Time to run, hope all’s well, take care and God Bless.

About 4pm we loaded up the dog, some more gear and one extra passenger (the infamous Vinny) and headed up the hill. After a quick stop in Frisco at Whole Foods, we pulled in about 6pm. Lori threw together some hot dogs for the boys while I unpacked another load of stuff from the city.

Yesterday we had pictures taken of the house inside and out before heading downtown for a haircut. After that we pretty much just packed things up around the house. On Monday, the house will officially be on the market! Pray it sells quick!

Today the boys will probably walk down to the Minturn Farmers Market while Lori and I run down valley to Eagle to look at a few houses. There are a few available with owner financing which we’ll look at as that’s too good of a deal to pass up. We might make it down the hill tonight so we can stop in to Aunt Ali’s b-day party but we told them not to count on us for dinner. If we miss it, Happy Birthday again to Aunt Ali!

Hope all’s well, it’s beautiful up here again, it just doesn’t compare to the city. The sky is the bluest blue you’ve ever seen and the white clouds provide a sharp contrast looking like cotton balls just thrown up in the sky. Throw in the green pastures and purple mountains due to all the rain and it’s amazing. I sort of sound like Lori!

No politics today, they are easy to forget up here, thankfully. Take care, God Bless

I have to admit, the house is looking good! The painters were back at 8am until about 3 and the cleaners, four of them, were here from 10:30 until about 2. In the end, we’re just about set for pictures today. First though, I need to finish cleaning out the wine cellar, clean up my desk in the basement, get all the clothes put away off the dryer and finally, clean off the fainting couch upstairs. The garage is what it is. To throw a wrench into the whole day, I have a pallet of wine arriving sometime this morning which needs to be unpacked and then repacked into boxes and then sent or picked up by Fed Ex to go to Georgia, Virginia and South Carolina. Thankfully it’s only about 40 cases meaning only 10 will stay here which will have to sit in the house somewhere. So there you have it, if we were looking for a house in this neighborhood, we’d buy this! Who knows, it could sell in a day or take months. I’m not planning on it selling right away as that wouldn’t be very smart but it’d sure be nice.

The painters painted just about everything yesterday. They did a really good job and it was a pretty good deal too. These were some of those hard working illegals who were good people, not the bad ones. I think there’s far more hard working immigrants who just want a better life than criminals but there are too many criminals. Even these guys hate the bad guys. One guys wife still is in Mexico and he sends money home weekly. He and his 8 year old son live here. Just a different World. Not sure they pay taxes as they only take checks or cash but they work hard and are good people.

It’s now 6am and we’d better get moving. We went out to dinner last night so we didn’t mess up the kitchen. I told the kids they can’t eat in the house anywhere anymore until it sells! Time to run, hope all’s well, God Bless.

Yesterday we had the painters (our house cleaners brother in law) here most of the day painting the master bedroom and kitchen dining room ceilings and the entire mud room. Today they are back for the master bath ceiling, the hall above the stairs, the tv room ceiling and the two front doors. We might have them do all the cabinets in the tv room too but we’ll see. It sure is looking nice around here. We were saying how we should have done this years ago!

Meanwhile the house cleaners arrive at 10:30 to get going on the deep clean. The kids did a really good job on their rooms, much better than I would have thought. At 4:30 we made another trip to the storage unit before Lori made it home around 6. It’s getting pretty exciting as we are realizing just how fast things are happening and how soon we’ll be in a new situation. Hold on!

Now to the real excitement of the day yesterday. Not sure if you noticed but the NY Stock Exchange, United Airlines, the New York Times and other smaller locales like most of Seattle, all lost their internet access and/or power. Now as far as your concerned, this was all a big coincidence with everyone having outages at the same time, according to the govt. All I have to say is if you believe that, I have some beach front property to sell you in Kansas. Do you really believe a major airline, the stock exchange and a major newspaper with computer networks all in different places across the Country, all had simultaneous outages? Come on. In fact, if you want to see just how vulnerable we are to computer hacks, which can shut down life as we know it, click on the link below. This will show you a real time map of hacks going on around the World. Just click here, map.norsecorp.com.

Now with the stock exchange, I think the govt shut it down using a tech glitch as an excuse as all other markets around the World were in free fall (China lost 7 %!) and after a 200 point drop in an hour, they shut it down. Anyhow, now is the time to buy food people. Get it while you can.

Guess I’ll run but click on the link or cut and paste it, pretty interesting. Hope you all are well, God Bless.