East of Salida, CO latitude N 38°30′37.8″ longitude W 105°57′59.8″ elevation 7025’
This odyssey started a year ago this month with my retirement. It has not been with out challenges, but overall all it has been a good year. You never really know someone until you live with them in less than 400 square feet for a year. Susan and I successfully did that and we are still OK with each other.
We helped the local ATV club put on the historical color tour during the peak of aspen color. The aspen cooperated fully this year, the tour caught the peak of color. The weather was perfect and the mountain vistas still give me a rush down to the core of my soul. I hope I never get so jaded as to not respond to the natural beauty of this place. We met some great people, had great fun, enjoying the overall experience. Susan did a new design for the Tee Shirts this year. It was a big hit.
The Color tour Thursday night dinner and entertainment at the Coyote Cantina spawned my favorite memory. Wayne Foust, the entertainer, sings, plays guitar, and banjo. He is as bald as a cue ball and has fun with it. His signature song is something called Bald Guys he wrote and get selected guys to help him present. This year he selected me as a bald guy in training to join four other guys in the chorus line. It was hilarious to say the least. Still pictures do not even start to tell this story, but it is all I have.
Metal Detecting this month definitely took a back seat to ATVing. I still found a size five, 10K yellow gold women’s wedding band and a French ten cent piece. I had to buy quarters to do laundry. That part was humiliating. A friend from here and I joined my brother in law and another friend at an old town site south of Gunnison for some detecting. My brother in law found three intact cannon balls and I found nothing.
We plan to attend our granddaughter’s final adoption hearing on October 9th in Denver. This is a formality, the agreements are final and in place. I give Diamond the change I find with the metal detector. We call it her college education fund and put it in a huge plastic water bottle.
We can not move ahead with the place we found here, we now call Aspen Glen, because our house in Oregon has still not sold. I've included a couple of pictures from the front porch. The mountain in the back fround is Mt Simmons in the Sangre de Christo range across the San Luis Valley.
This odyssey started a year ago this month with my retirement. It has not been with out challenges, but overall all it has been a good year. You never really know someone until you live with them in less than 400 square feet for a year. Susan and I successfully did that and we are still OK with each other.
We helped the local ATV club put on the historical color tour during the peak of aspen color. The aspen cooperated fully this year, the tour caught the peak of color. The weather was perfect and the mountain vistas still give me a rush down to the core of my soul. I hope I never get so jaded as to not respond to the natural beauty of this place. We met some great people, had great fun, enjoying the overall experience. Susan did a new design for the Tee Shirts this year. It was a big hit.The Color tour Thursday night dinner and entertainment at the Coyote Cantina spawned my favorite memory. Wayne Foust, the entertainer, sings, plays guitar, and banjo. He is as bald as a cue ball and has fun with it. His signature song is something called Bald Guys he wrote and get selected guys to help him present. This year he selected me as a bald guy in training to join four other guys in the chorus line. It was hilarious to say the least. Still pictures do not even start to tell this story, but it is all I have.
Metal Detecting this month definitely took a back seat to ATVing. I still found a size five, 10K yellow gold women’s wedding band and a French ten cent piece. I had to buy quarters to do laundry. That part was humiliating. A friend from here and I joined my brother in law and another friend at an old town site south of Gunnison for some detecting. My brother in law found three intact cannon balls and I found nothing.We plan to attend our granddaughter’s final adoption hearing on October 9th in Denver. This is a formality, the agreements are final and in place. I give Diamond the change I find with the metal detector. We call it her college education fund and put it in a huge plastic water bottle.
We can not move ahead with the place we found here, we now call Aspen Glen, because our house in Oregon has still not sold. I've included a couple of pictures from the front porch. The mountain in the back fround is Mt Simmons in the Sangre de Christo range across the San Luis Valley. 
The beautiful Aspens are in the front yard. We have an option to lease this place for six months or until our Oregon house sells which ever comes first. That option is extremely expensive, but takes the house off the market.
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