Home Maintenance

One afternoon while standing at the kitchen counter, I was rudely surprised when  . . .

part of the lanai ceiling collapsed. 

When that happened I quickly checked the garage ceiling & the front porch ceiling.

The garage ceiling was fine, but the porch ceiling had a crack in it. 

Now we had to clean up the mess and find someone that could do drywall repair 

in a timely manner because we were planning another visit to see the precious grandchildren.

 

I pulled out "The Highlander" our trusty neighborhood paper

where there are always ads for service providers.

There were some great ads for drywall contractors,

so I started making phone calls to schedule estimates. 

 

After we settled on the contractor we found out he had done work for the realtor that had helped us find this house & that he was a member of BNI (Business Networking International). 

I felt confident that we had made a good choice!

 

The repair work took 1 1/2 days & 

they did an excellent job!!

 

I had been in the process of getting estimates for 

new gutters & downspouts before the lanai ceiling collapsed.

I chose a contractor for the gutter job & they came the day after the ceilings were repaired.

 

I had also been wanting to get the electrical panel upgraded.

The electrician came after the gutters were installed.

We got all that done in three days with two days to spare before

leaving to visit the grandchildren!

 

Hopefully there won't be any more improvement/repair projects for awhile.

 

 

Hiking Home Base

Our home base in Fairfiled, CO while we hiked was here at A Riverside Inn Hotel.

Restaurants of Fairfield - 

down the road at the local bowling alley/restaurant

 Right next door -

we did not sample the ice cream.

One afternoon we walked to downtown Fairfield.

There were a lot of touristy shops, 

but they did have a nice park with a scenic overlook to the river.

 Our rental car after days of driving to trail heads.

The view on our last morning in Fairfield, CO.

Vacation - Hiking Day 3

We hiked part of the Colorado trail on our last day in Fairfiled, CO.

We saw a lot of tepees .  .  .

The trail is almost 500 miles long, so a lot of people camp along the trail.

Beautiful panoramic scenery!!

 Typical trail  .  .  . 

Wild flowers .  .  .

and wild potentilla!

We paid money for this stuff in Indiana!

 Blue butterfly .  .  .

Stream jump!

More scenery and water break.

Other hikers!

 Our last day of hiking was the best!

It was warm & sunny & the trail was easy (except for the stream jump).

This trip definitely surpasses our experience of 30 years ago!

 

Vacation - Hiking Day 2

We headed to the Rich Creek Trailhead for our second day of hiking.

One of the sights just before we got to the trailhead was this . . .

Go figure!

I know there must be a good story behind this abandoned limo.

What's your story?? 

 

 

 

We saw a lot of beautiful wildflowers . .  .

and Aspen trees . . .

and water . . .

and mountains of course.

We were going to do a loop where the Rick Creek Trail met the Rough & Tumbling Trail, but it wasn't well marked.  I was too afraid of getting lost, since we weren't experienced hikers, so we turned around & headed back to the trailhead.

 Overall it was another successful day of hiking.

We didn't even get rained on!