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Friday, September 14th, 2007

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Hello everyone who still checks this blog from time to time,

Dave and I have been wanting to have some sort of get-together ever since we moved into our house but we’ve just had a busy summer. If we don’t do it now it will be next spring before we do so we’ve decided to have an Octoberfest party.

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The date will be October 20th, the highlight will be Dave’s homebrewed beer and I will make some traditional German food, maybe even use my grandma’s potato pancake recipe. Dave is also building a washers pit (like horse shoes but different) so we’ll have games to play, too.

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For everyone who lives out of town but might like to come for the weekend please do! We have two fully set-up guest rooms and a futon. We also have lots of floor space for sleeping bags if it comes to that.

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Come visit

Saturday, September 8th, 2007

Well, the weather is cooling off, it’s about as nice as you can imagine here right now. We get an afternoon shower a lot of days but other than that it has been clear and right around 80 degrees during the day, cooling off nicely at night. So I want to extend an invite to everyone and let you know this is a great time of year to come for a visit. We have two guest rooms all set up, one upstairs and one downstairs so there is plenty of room. Unless you have skiing in your plans the spring and the fall are the best times of year here and so far there is no snow in the mountains so 14ers are open for hiking!!
Also, baseball is still going on and football has started so if you want to attend a sporting event now is a good time.

Pup-date

Sunday, August 26th, 2007
I figured everyone would like an update about our puppy. We have named him Woody (short for Woodrow) and he is 46 lbs at 4 months. He is lots of fun, a little crazy, and too cute. He is the ... [Continue reading this entry]

14er #13

Sunday, August 26th, 2007
We climbed our 13th 14er on Saturday, Mt. Democrat. Actually Dave and the rest of the group did the 3-14er circuit, but I had invited a friend of mine, it was her 1st 14er so we took it easy and ... [Continue reading this entry]

Puppy!!

Monday, July 16th, 2007
We decided to get a puppy a few weeks ago, Molly had been depressed since Squeakie died so we thought she needed a companion. We looked around a while because we wanted to find the perfect pup. I think we ... [Continue reading this entry]

Oh, and some other stuff from the mountains

Monday, July 16th, 2007
We tried to do our second 14er of the year a few weeks ago, but instead of getting to the summit we learned a valuable lesson: When the 14ers website says: "this trail not recommended". You should probably try the ... [Continue reading this entry]

1 out of 3 ain’t bad?

Monday, May 28th, 2007
We decided to head into the mountains this Memorial Day to hike our first 14ers of the year. Three 14ers main trails start at the same trailhead so we figured we'd backpack in, spend the night and go up at ... [Continue reading this entry]

Good weather, fun weekends

Tuesday, May 1st, 2007
We have finally had a few weekends with good weather, so we are taking advantage of it. For the first two weekends of good weather we started our hiking for the year, picking 2 small mountains to go up (small ... [Continue reading this entry]