We visited the shooting center, enjoying the wildlife trophies.     We will be returning there soon.  We enjoy shooting on the range. I wrote last month that our Airstream trailer had left our lot in Arizona without us.  Ever since we began RVing in 1988, we have spent days, weeks, even months each year in Colorado State Parks.  Since 2014 when we bought our house in Arizona, our annual summer visits to Colorado have been spent in camping in the parks.  You often could find us in Cherry Creek or Chatfield in the Denver area, St. Vrain up north near Longmont, Ridgeway near Montrose, Mueller near Divide or Lathrop in Walsenburg.  They really have been our Colorado summer home. What would we do without an RV?  We started planning for this change by renting an apartment just south of Denver in Lone Tree last summer.  We returned to Lone Tree in April.   But this doesn't mean we won't be in any more Colorado State Parks.  Yesterday, we went to Cherry Creek where we purchased a new A

 Thursday the high temperature in Denver was 88.  Today, the high will be 41.   The low last night was 37 and tonight it may get down to 28.  I thought we came to Denver to spend the summer where it would be cooler than the low 100s in Arizona.  But below freezing and snow?  That wasn't supposed to be part of the deal.   This is a shot taken from our patio last night. This was the same view this morning after the snow had been knocked off the trees. As we drove home from the grocery store yesterday, this was what we saw. The temperature was only 37. Today, Saturday, as I write this, the outside temperature is only 40. Thursday, we did our daily walk at The Bluffs, an open space area nearby in Douglas County.  We could see views of nearby neighborhoods, the prairie land along the trail and the snowcapped mountains to the west. Some days, we take the light rail to Park Meadows Mall for our walk.  Much different scenery there. We will have to see what the weather brings.  This year, I

     We are enjoying our apartment and living in the city again.  There is so much to do and SO MANY  places to shop.  And we have done a lot of that!  We feel we have the furniture we need, as soon as our two Lazy Boy chairs are delivered at the end of the month.       The only possible downside of where we are living is that all our neighbors are the age of our children and even grandchildren.  Our house in Arizona is in a 55+ resort and RVing has more seniors than young couples.  When we moved in our apartment, we feared the weekends would be pretty loud.  Don't 20-somethings party on the weekends?  But they don't do it here in the apartment complex.  Last Friday night there was a large gathering of young people, drinking beer, playing ping pong just hanging out in the courtyard outside our living room.  There were there till 9 pm, but I never heard them at all, even though I could see them. Obviously, this isn't an issue.     But we also want to be open to other housing

   We went on our first trip in an RV in 1988.  We borrowed John's sister Cindy's popup tent trailer to take our son Eric to a Christian youth gathering--DC88-in Washington, D.C.  That was it for a couple of years, but we had enjoyed it so much that, to celebrate our 25th wedding anniversary, we bought a Coleman popup tent trailer for ourselves.           We used that trailer for getaways on our days off and for traveling during our month-long summer vacation.  One year we went to the Northwest and up into British Columbia.  Then, in 1996 we bought a 1996 Komfort 5th-wheel trailer.  Since then, we have owned two Montana 5thwheels and a Mobile Suites 5th wheel.  Downsizing in 2016, we bought an Airstream travel trailer.    Fast forward to this year--we are aging and decided it was time to stop RVing.  The parking area next to our winter home in Arizona no longer has a trailer parked there.     On April 18, it pulled out of our driveway without us!   We have so many wonderful mem

   One of the first places we went after arriving in Lone Tree for the summer was Andrews Funeral Home in Castle Rock. There's a lot of back story here.  In 1938 John's parents bought a funeral home in Castle Rock, naming it Andrews Funeral Home.  In 1975 we bought the funeral home, owning and managing it until 1984.  We raised our two boys there until we sold it in to the Caldwells.  Last August we were invited by JR to tour the building before they tore it down.  John's sister Cindy and our son Eric and wife Liz joined us that day. Now that the new building is complete, we were glad to visit.  This is the main chapel area.  Chris is the new manager and he cut the ribbon for the celebration, hosted by the Chamber of Commerce. He talked a little about the history of the building and the business.   Here is the front and side of the building. We live in an apartment at Camden Lincoln Station during the summer.  It  is in Lone Tree, a community located about a mile from the h