Day 207

Back to school Monday. Homecoming Party prep continues; they are go unless a positive COVID test erupts. The baby keeps playing. Lunch was from a new pizza place that we like: Parry’s Pizzeria & Taphouse. Tracy ran up to Denver today to ship off MRIs to Dr. Grant (Stanford). And Lynn got a clean bill of health from a cardiac specialist checking up on a potential hereditary issue. AJ joined Papa at the fire again tonight. They chatted mostly about the immensity of the universe and about rovers sent to Mars. AJ explained (correctly) why the moon looks so much bigger than the stars even though the stars are much bigger than the moon.

Basket Case

Day 206

After church in the morning, we had a quick lunch and were off to the Colorado Pumpkin Patch. It was a youth outing for TimberCreek, to which the whole fam damily went. As they say, a great time was had by all. All the photos from the pumpkin patch are here (133).

Pick-up time after service,

Day 205

 Today we had the Sunday School teachers luncheon/picnic at our house! Got some reading time in. Check out Tracy's photo of the three boys with casts and braces. Four of us visited The Screening Room A/V downtown to check out theatre room equipment; that was a hoot and a half!

Fina's Homecoming Party stuff

Personal Fruit Pizzas for today

Day 204

Matt did a lot of food prep today, including prep for a yummy steak dinner this evening with smashed potatoes. His prep also included pumpkin guts for future pumpkin pancakes and the like. Look out, someone's already broken into the Halloween stash. Let's see, who's the Reese's hound? Actually, who isn't? Matteo stayed after school to play with a friend at a park near the school; he seems to have made a few friends fairly quickly. Jamie went out to the horse ranch today. We had a new boy join the group so we let the "old hands" show him around and introduce him to all the horses. And final prep is underway for tomorrow's luncheon here for all the volunteer Sunday School teachers and support folks.

Day 203

Jamie, Lynn, and Matt went to Abby's Irish Pub for lunch. We forget how good that place is. The food is tasty and unique. Tried Jameson Cooper's Croze (a cooper is one who makes barrels and a croze is a groove in the barrel where the head sets in or a tool to make that groove). Fina continued prepping for her cohorts' Homecoming Party (blue jars). AJ talked a lot about DragonCity at the fire pit tonight.

Irish Nachos (corn beef)

New leg casts

Smoke from Colorado fires this time

Day 202

Another smoky morning, this time from Colorado's own fire up north. Never thought I'd like a purple pumpkin, but there you go. Nana and Papa had a little wine and charcuterie with her book club friend Denise and family for dinner. They shared a wine with us we'd never had before, Calluna (Chalk Hill, CA). Held up nicely to the Regusci Black Knight we started with. For the last week or so, AJ has been joining me out by the fire pit in the evenings for a bit. He likes the warmth of the fire in the cold air (so do I). A couple of times he's sat down and chatted for a few minutes. I often find myself asking him "how'd you know that?" We were talking about various kinds of government, and then he said, "like in Hamilton?" Exactly! Lastly, Fina's packaging the masks she made for her cohorts' homecoming party that they are throwing for themselves.

Day 201

Really crisp view of the mountains as the sun rose this morning. Prep for the Presidential Debate tonight was mostly about food, drink, and games. Fina came up with the game. While the debate roared on, Jamie taught tonight's session for his God Is Good course: Exodus/Moses Part 2. Tonight's movie (for Jamie and Lynn) was Joy, an interesting movie about a single mom that develops a new mop and works to get it perfected, manufactured, and sold.