Daily we see these beautiful, vibrant Mountain Bluebirds. It's quite a delight to have them around. This photo is the male, the females are more brownish with just a little blue. We also have many of these Pinyon Jays around. They're large ...
We continue to make progress, little by little. The barn is getting closer to completion. The storage/workshop area is mostly done, with its SIPs walls and roof; the doors and window are in and the roof is mostly completed now with metal roofing to m ...
Living in the mountains sure is different from the lowlands! We have been here almost 4 weeks now, and have had quite a taste of our new life here. We’ve had a couple of good-size spring snowstorms, which left roughly 10” of snow each time. Now we're ...
Now that we're here full time, many neighbors have been stopping by to say hello. If they don't stop, they often drive by slowly, curiously looking at the property and waving. It's been great to meet friendly folks and discover where they all came fr ...
There's an expression around here: "If you don't like the weather in Colorado, wait 15 minutes". OK, things aren't quite that extreme, but we certainly do get a variety of fast-changing weather. As if to underscore this point, here's a pic from ou ...
The Wellington GGR Garden has now been passed on to its new caretakers. We've closed the sale on the house & property there, and the buyers will be taking over. Our address is no longer on Shoofly Lane. It's being deleted permanently from many da ...
Laurie has a beautiful Down Syndrome great-nephew named Charlie. When Charlie does something that he is especially proud of he smiles from ear-to-ear, raises his hands and proclaims "I did it!". <Missing Photo Goes Here> You can just feel the ...
In a previous post, we mentioned that we had found a local company to engineer our Happy House using SIPs. Unfortunately, our experience with this company has not been very happy. They are frequently not responsive when we need questions answered or ...
Soon we will be leaving our Golden Gaits Ranch in Wellington. My next post will probably be from our new GGR in Guffey! We close on the sale of the house April 23. It's a bittersweet move, as we will be leaving behind all that we've done here on the ...
This past winter we saw quite a few of these Northern Bobwhites here in Wellington. According to the map of their range, they are a bit out of their territory here, but there has been a covey of about a dozen of them running around our yard, and o ...