Hi, all. Can't believe that I didn't post last week that I was going away for a bit. Since Saturday morning, I've been at S 34's house in Colorado. I'm house/dogs/cat-sitting for him and his girlfriend. I go home Sunday night.
Superb isolation. Mountain top log house with views of....mountaintops! 8,500 feet. Decompressing is right, BobbiJo (pant, pant, pant... ).
Blissfully, more of a break than I expected: My cell phone gets service only in Boulder, 20 miles away. Their house/satellite/whatever phone has worked rarely, at best this week, and the internet is equally sporadic. Strong signal now, so I will finish this and catch up with some of you.
I've been hiking, reading, playing with the dogs, caring for their vegetable greenhouse, strolling the small, three-street town and chatting with locals.
Today, a drive up to Wyoming. Cheyenne and maybe Laramie. Just because.
Saturday, I have the pleasure of meeting Golfgirl1 at a nearby festival!
Between StepD in mid 90's and S since '01, I've been coming here for seventeen years. I love it here. So, the next chapter will probably be Oregon or here.
But it looks like that next chapter will take a little longer: the day I left, a family came to see my house for the third time. Made an insultingly low offer. Oh well. Gonna take it off the market soon and hunker down for another winter with that albatross around my neck and try again in the spring.
This chapter just won't close until this house is gone.
Off to some of your threads now before I lose signal. Be back later, probably with a new thread since this one's now at 100 pages!
Peace,
Last edited by Gardener; 08/19/1005:16 PM.
Gardener
"My soul, be satisfied with flowers, With fruit, with weeds even; but gather them In the one garden you may call your own." Cyrano deBergerac
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