September 30, 2009

After two days of the warmest weather we have ever had on our Fall trip to Ouray we woke up this morning to rain and strong winds. Eventually it passed and so we headed out to see the sights. Snow was on all the mountain peaks, including my favorite Red Mountain. We then went on to Cunningham Gulch where we saw several old mine ruins and then attempted to hike up to a mountain lake. We never made it to the lake as we got too late of a start but we did have a great time on the hike.

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September 29, 2009

We got a late start today due to having to drive to Montrose to replace a shock on the Scout.
After that we drove outside of Ouray on the Million Dollar Highway -my favorite drive and views in the state! We went for a hike that seemed to go straight up forever but had excellent views of course. Carl did a little fishing at the lake and then we went back to town for dinner at the Western Hotel and a beer at the Ourayle House.

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September 28, 2009

We spent most of our second day of vacation driving to Ouray. Beautiful fall foliage near Silver Jack reservoir and Owl Creek pass and super cute burro? mule? outside of Eleven Mile Reservoir.

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September 27, 2009

First day of our vacation! We went to our "cabin" for the first night. It was hard to get going today so we arrived a little later than we expected. I love to see all the aspens beautifully colored. We went out at sunset and as I was taking a picture of the scene I was scared to death by noise and movement and realized that it was a group of deer running up the hill. I captured them in silhouette.

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September 26, 2009

The full group we had this year at the Great American Beer Festival. Me, Treva, Mathew, Matthew and Carl. I'm not going to lie, we made several mistakes this year. Carl forgot his ID and had to drive to Castle Rock to meet Kelly to get it, so we didn't get there early like we planned. We didn't eat before, which is always a mistake and we didn't have a list of places we wanted to go to so we had to wing it. Apparently, Carl and I also don't have the tolerance we have had in previous years due to not drinking as much these days and perhaps weight loss- so we ended up FAR too drunk. Still, all in all we had a great time!

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September 25, 2009

I'm so excited! I finally got all four tickets for the Thanksgiving Bronco game- Hooray!
We will be going with Dawn & David after eating a delicious Thanksgiving meal at their house.

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September 24, 2009

Playing with the pup.

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September 23, 2009

Dawn and David came down to visit and go to dinner. We went to Wild Ginger for Thai food- pretty good! I love this picture of them, very cute! Hopefully we can keep on track with the 42 days this time- that will be November 4th.

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September 22, 2009

First day of Fall! I love fall, but man is it cold! We actually have the heat on right now.
I got my new camera today, just in time for vacation in 4 days. The top picture shows how my outdoor pictures got a ghostly fog in them from the scratch on the lens. The bottom picture is from the new camera- no ghost, yay!

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September 21, 2009

Tonight we went to Nosh with the Stiles. I really loved it there! The food was excellend and I loved the murals on the walls- I wish we would have had one of the huge koi fish above our heads in the picture they were really spectacular.

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September 20, 2009

Beautiful flowers that Karen brought last night to book club. Love the spider mum!

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September 19, 2009

Book club at my house tonight, we read The Four Corners of the Sky by Michael Malone. It was a fun read but not a real in depth discussion book. Everyone brought an appetizer or dip so we had many delicious treats to eat and then key lime pie. I like this picture of everyone showing their best enthralled with the book pose!

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September 18, 2009

I haven't done a self-portrait in awhile and I didn't have anything fun or exciting happening today so this is it. It's hard to get a good picture of yourself- but I think this one turned out pretty well.

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September 17, 2009

calcium

Joining in once again on the word of the day from the blog 1 Year + Dictionary + Photography.

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September 16, 2009

True Blood finale party at Angela's! For fun Angela made Stuffed red bell peppers - to look heart like, red velvet cake and I made Vodka Cherry martinis. Delicious!

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September 15, 2009

Sad to see the missing pet posters posted. I hope that because it was ripped off and balled up on the ground that this means they found the cat. But really, is it so hard to use a trashcan?

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September 14, 2009

New throw pillows that I am making for the living room. Nice pop of color!

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September 13, 2009

I had to take the fan out of the window today- too cold. I hate that. One of my favorite parts of summer is going to bed with the fan on- it is so cool and comfortable.

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September 12, 2009

We went to the Habitat for Humanity used building supply store today- love that place. I really want one of these pink sinks for our downstairs bathroom. Lots of stuff there, we may never have to go to Home Depot again.

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September 11, 2009

Some of the last flowers of the season, I think. This is on a bush in the neighbors yard.

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September 10, 2009

Feather from my parent's peacock.

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September 9, 2009

Item of the day from work. I found this in a pile of paper items that I finally decided to go through. I love the graphics on this!

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September 8, 2009

See the huge scratches on my camera lens??? I scratched this over the weekend, not sure how but I do know it is my fault for setting it down without putting the lens cap back on. So sad. I took it to a camera shop and basically it will probably cost as much to replace the lens (they can't fix it) as it would to replace the camera. I am such an idiot.

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September 7, 2009

We went to the "cabin" today for our Labor Day festivities. The first picture is of an owl I saw when walking Maxx. There was a pissed off squirrel chattering away at the owl which is how I saw him. I guess the squirrel didn't want to share his tree. Then we came around a corner where two horses were grazing. Maxx did not know what to think of the large animals, but he did attempt to herd them before we pulled him away. On the way out we saw two elk (or deer) grazing in the grass- we were too far away but I took the picture anyway.

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September 6, 2009

We started off today by getting up at 6:30 to go to the balloon lift off. It was cloudy with unsure weather so they didn't take off until 8:15 - we had already left for home by then so I took a picture of this one from the house.

Later, I had the girls over for dinner and to go to the Balloon Glow, which they canceled due to the weather! So not a good day for me and balloons. It was nice to see Debbie who was here visiting from Minnesota (good to see Monica and Patsy too!)

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September 5, 2009

Festive Labor Day weekend party at the Stiles' house.

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September 4, 2009

Beautiful harvest- so colorful! I of course did not grow these fine, fine looking fruits and vegetables- they are from the Stiles' garden.

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September 3, 2009

Cool item of the day that I am listing on eBay. This is an 1897 Denver Carnival souvenir badge. I love this for so many reasons, but especially due to the super creepy jester/clown at the center. Old souvenir items like this always amaze me because of the quality and detail that you would never find on a modern piece.

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September 2, 2009

Maxx and his glow ball.

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September 1, 2009

September 1st! Hard to believe. I've been trying to get a good picture of this flowering vine all summer and I finally got a good one. I don't know what this vine is called but it looks so tropical that I almost can't believe it grows here. Beautiful!

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