Repainting the House

The house gets repainted! Started this week. We're going from browns and tans to black and white (with a smidge of blue) for the stucco and wood. The rock remains the same, of course.

Chutes and Ladders

Oops.

A Painting Theme

"Paint" a carbonate on a rock. Paint the house. Paint parking spaces.

Here's what the Popcorn Rocks from the Mining Museum have done over the last several weeks. It was a slow process. Matt remarked that the house looked like a Chutes and Ladders game with the painters jumping into the repainting project today. There were ladders everywhere, some of them reaching the 3rd floor. And what did Fina do most of the day while her siblings were in school?... She helped her senior friends paint their parking spaces at school.

Back to School

DCC Elementary and Middle School started today! So off we went on our traditional morning walk (that continues for some of us much of the year when the weather allows). 

4th, 6th, 4th, 1st.

Friends!

Mini-Golf

It was a back-to-school promise: yes, we can get another mini-golf session in before school starts. Surprisingly, this would be only our second mini-golf outing all summer. I really thought we'd be doing one every other week, at least. I guess to make up for the infrequency, we stumbled (literally) onto a course we had not been to before (in the process of trying to get to one we had been to before!). Gold Mine Mini Golf. What a hoot! We did courses 1 and 3. Suited this rock guy just fine! The boys thought it was the best ever, and the best hole ever was the one with a conveyor belt for your ball.

A sunflower next door!

We got 3 of these recently. Yum yum!

Lynn is underway with her labyrinth quilt.

A Liberty Puzzle of the
Rocky Mountain Repertory Theatre's
2021 Season

Camarones Aguachiles at Vaqueros.
New. Very good! Spicy!

Best hole ever. See the conveyor belt on the right
hauling your ball (the blue dot) up and drop it into a trough
that leads right to the cup. Awesome!

Tracy finished the Liberty Puzzle
(very uniquely shaped pieces in wood).

Till South and Other Milestones

Nana and Papa visited Till South for the first time. You may recall just plain Till was a favorite of ours up north here until it got revamped into something else. Sad. But, it turns out the same folks did open, as promised, a more Till-like restaurant downtown called Till South. Very much in keeping with the old Till's unique and very tasty offerings. Lexi still waters the outdoor potted plants. She and David have been attending Eagle Lake Camp at the Club; with big grins and just enough "cash" in their account to get a snack or two. And lastly, our littlest foster child has hung up his helmet, its job is done.

Scotch Egg (how'd they do that?)

Akaushi Short Ribs

The Eagle Lake Campers came by...

The helmet's job is done.

Chinchillas!

First and foremost, the weekend was preparations for and receipt of two new family members. Two chinchillas to be exact.

Meet Jewel and Amber.

Starting with cage assembly

Taking a break to make Palisades Peach Cobbler,
or as AJ would call it, Peach Dump Cake.

Street Tacos at the Club.
That's "watermelon radish" on top.

They arrived safe and sound from the Denver area.
Matt and the two boys drove up to get them.

How they arrived.

The last touch was pine shavings.