Just a touch of what's to come...

Well, Hello everyone. September 21...the last day of summer and we got about 4 inches of snow. The squash, tomatoe and basil plants are history. Well, we do have some basil and tomatoes in the the greenhouse / hot tub room. The white stuff took us a little by surprise however, after doing its' job killing garden plants and turning many aspens immediately brown, it melted and since we have had pretty darn nice weather. We are hoping for a beautiful indian summer...you know, until about January.

We've had a busy few weeks since our little community's "season" officially came to an end. We have some new friends, Mo and Gary, who live down the canyon a few miles on a beautiful piece of property with amazing views of the surrounding areas. We've gone to lunch and dinner with them a few times. Yesterday we traveled to Blackhawk for a wonderful lunch of steak, lobster and shrimp at one of the casinos.

We also took a great weekend ride with some other friends to Kanosha Pass last week to see the colors of the aspen trees. The colors weren't near as spectacular as usual due to the snow and early cold temps, however the scenery was still amazing and the picnic we had was wonderful. Sharon makes some darn good fried chicken.

Mike's hoping to cut a couple more loads of firewood before winter officially drops. We are looking forward to January when we have been blessed with permission to travel to our home in Ecuador to check on the house there, get our medical needs taken care of and just spend a little time doing absolutely nothing. We are so excited that our friends, Sharon and Larry are going to travel down with us. Our very good friend from Boise, Mr. Edd is has consented to come to Colorado to watch over our home and little mountain community while we're gone. Thank you Mr. Edd.

We are so blessed to live in such a wonderful place and have so many wonderful friends.