Crazy Busy Times

 Sometimes life just doesn't slow down!  But that's OK to be busy as long as you have some "down" time!

It seemed like Glenn packed for 3 weeks for his hunting trip but he FINALLY got left on a Wed. morning to meet Neal up in Walden - he wasn't super hopeful on getting an elk because of the late fall, nice warm temps and no moisture!  But time would tell....

I had a 4-H Foundation meeting and then a dentist appt. that same day.  Thursday I had an early PT appt. and then stopped in Co. Springs to get some new tennis shoes before I headed up to Denver!  Evan had a XCountry meet that afternoon so Jessi and I headed over and met Gary there - it was one that was close by so that was good!

Unfortunately Evan had been sick the day before so didn't run his best but it's always still fun to see him run!  It was a beautiful day out!

Then we raced home as Evan had his band concert that night - I went with Gary to take Evan early and helped save seats till Jessi, Kenzie and Gwyn arrived!!  The concert was wonderful - I loved listening to the 3 different bands that played that night!

Friday morning after walking Gwyn to school, Jessi and I got to do coffee together!  Always fun!  She headed to work and I went back to the house for a little while before heading to the place to have my neck ultrasound done - my endocronologist requires this since my thyroid cancer.  And then it was back to Jessi's to go pick up Gwyn at school and get organized for dinner!

Once again we headed to the high school, this time for the 2 jazz band conerts.  Evan is in jazz band II and both groups were awesome!  They have some real talent at that school!

And then it was off to Dairy Queen for ice cream!

What a jam packed 3 days - but it wasn't quite over yet!  I headed home early the next morning to get organized and the Keppys arrived about 2:00!  They were headed to Mt. Princeton Hot Springs the next day and wanted an "extra" night of vacation (it's fall break for the kids!)  Jaime and Kylan came over late afternoon and I fed them all!

The next morning Jessi and I headed over to The Wild Horse for coffee - it's all decorated so cute!  Unfortunately we had to wait a while for our coffee as there was just one person working and it was busy!  Worth the wait though!

Gary had their car all packed up by the time we got back and they headed out!  I had a couple of hours of downtime and then headed to Arlyne's for choir girls get together - we met mid-afternoon and had an early dinner so we could get back home before nightfall which is getting earlier every day!

And Monday????  That was MY DAY!  I totally enjoyed having the day to myself!  Coffee on the front porch, phone calls and texts, computer things and lots of reading!  I DO enjoy my alone time and since Joleen was headed in on Tuesday, I relished my Monday all by myself!

One Last Chance

 Since our fall trip didn't produce any gold aspens, we decided we would head to Buffalo Peaks for a couple of nights and ATV over that way - yea, that didn't go so well either!

Glenn had decided that ONCE AGAIN the razor wasn't running right (when we got home from the Montrose area) so he had tore it apart and decided to put new rings in it AGAIN!  Expensive ones!  They were supposed to be in on a Friday before we were to leave the next Monday but they didn't come in - nor did they come in Saturday.  We were both very exasperated by that time! And because of scheduled appointments that next week, we couldn't change our dates to go - so when the part finally came in, Glenn fixed the razor and we just ended up driving over for the day.  It worked out OK - this just wasn't the way I wanted it to be as I wanted to camp one more time.......

ANYWAY, enough complaining - next year WILL go better I'm sure!

We headed over and unloaded - it was gray and cloudy on and off all day but we made the best of it!

As you can see, most of the aspens were already gone!  But there were still some great views!  And yes, that is snow on the mountains!

We found one nice patch of aspens and that's where I took these couple of pictures!

We stopped at a pretty place and enjoyed lunch - it was cold out so we were dressed pretty darn warm!

The day was fine and we made the best of our last time this year riding together in the mountains.  Glenn will take the Razor hunting but for me, this was it for the year!  Next year's pictures of the aspens will be great I'm sure!  

September Photo Dump

 I blinked my eyes and September was gone!  It sure didn't feel like September with the late fall that we're having but it's now a memory!  October is proving to be pretty with the aspens and a lot cooler!

Sunset as we were driving home one day.

We bought this plant up at a nursery in Ft. Collins - it looks great sitting on the front porch!

I also found this cute little gnome at the garden shop in Ft. Collins - I HAD to have him and ended up buying one for each of the girls too!

Beth and Arlyne (choir girls) plus a friend of Beth's heading out for our monthly get together!

And since I didn't have any aspen pics from our fall trip, here's a couple locally!

And that's a wrap for September!