December 8th, 2009 by Sha

Within a matter of hours our Indian summer has turned to winter. The huge storm moving across the United States dumped two feet of snow on south west Colorado overnight. The sun is trying to break out this morning but the weather forecast is telling us more storm is on the way. There’s already too much snow for the four wheeler to plow; it keeps getting stuck and Pete is having a heck of a time trying to clear our road. We’re definitely not going anywhere today. It’s okay though, we have plenty of supplies and the internet is working – that’s all we can ask for in this kind of weather.

July 13th, 2009 by Sha

Last Friday we took off for a couple days of camping before I headed back to Grand Junction for two more weeks of work. Pete bought a new tent for us while I was away working and had found a really pretty camping area near Big Meadow up on Wolf Creek Pass. It’s called Park Creek and is in the Rio Grande National Forest. The camp site sits along the headwaters of the Rio Grande River, which was running just behind our tent.  The weather was perfect, and the scenery was absolutely gorgeous. We spent a day relaxing at the camp site then we headed out for a scenic drive up to an old mining town called Summitville, which was just eighteen miles farther up the mountain from the camp site. It’s a ghost town, but a few of the old buildings are still standing. Summitville is at about 12,000 feet elevation, which makes for some incredible scenery. There are beautiful alpine flowers, deep green meadows, and awesome mountain vistas. The temperature was 84 degrees when we left the Park Creek camp ground and dropped to 46 degrees at Summitville, it was unbelievable. Just one more reason why the state’s tourism motto is “Colorado Wild”!

June 5th, 2009 by Sha

Changed the site theme today for summer, it reminds me of Hawaii with the beautiful hibiscus flowers. The weather here in B.F.C. has been just gorgeous, all the new Aspen leaves are bright neon green and the wildflowers range from purple-blue to bright yellow. It’s quite a sight to say the least! I did take some more photos but forgot to transfer them to the computer before I came into town today. Our internet is still unusable at the house, so we’ve been coming to the coffee house almost every day this past week to get online. I’ll try to get those up next time I get online.

May 18th, 2009 by Sha

Short post today as I have another busy week ahead. The weather has been absolutely gorgeous with temperatures in the mid-seventies, which is perfect at our altitude because it feels ten degrees warmer than it actually is. We’ve been spending a lot of time outside getting this year’s projects underway. Everything is so green right now, and the wild flowers have started their annual display which makes it difficult to focus on the work at hand. The barn patio project is almost done, we just need to move a little more dirt before I can start laying the stones. Frequent work breaks are necessary during this beautiful weather, and here are a few photos I took while out on a walk the other day. I hope you enjoy them.

March 17th, 2009 by Sha

While doing mundane tasks today I realized that Friday is the Spring Equinox, hooray! About this time of year I am so over winter it’s not even funny. The time change has been nice, now it’s light until 7 pm and there is time to get things done around here. The snow is nearly all gone on our south facing property so I took a walk the other day to assess the winter damages. Not so bad this year, only thing I’ve seen so far is a broken pipe going into one of the two water storage cisterns we have here at the house. At least that’s an easy one to fix, we’ve had enough things going on the past few months and my handywoman skills are ready for a break!