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My daughter Kristi and her family are spending a week up at South Fork, Colorado, this week, and she has been sending pictures on the cloud this week. This reminded me that we did a lot of things up there that I never mentioned in previous blogs. I will use some of her recent pictures to describe some of the other things we did up there in the summers. Continue reading
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Sometimes you resist something you don’t think you’ll like,
And when you give in, you wish you’d started earlier in life.
This Poem reminisces of my resistance to square dancing
And giving in and learning it really felt more like prancing.
Quality Time
I had a fishing trip outing with Kristi my daughter when she was just five. I have previously written a blog story about the outing and I thought I would try put the story into prose too. Continue reading
Fun Valley
Sometimes its nice to take a vacation where all your meals are prepared in a resort area that has fun activities you enjoy doing. This is generally fairly expensive, but darn, we all work hard and deserve this occasionally. Here’s the story. Continue reading
The Limit
During many of the summers when our daughters were growing up, our family traveled to South Fork, Colorado to spend time with my Mom and Dad at their cabin near the Rio Grande River. Two of my aunts and uncles also had cabins there, and my wife’s Mom and Dad also bought a cabin there. It was like a family reunion each summer since we all tried to vacation at the same time. One summer when we were up there, I had a very special outing with my oldest daughter, Kristi, who was about five years old at the time. Here’s my story. Continue reading
Rio Grande Rafting
Our family has always been very close. For a number of years, we all vacationed in the South Fork, Colorado area. In the summer time there were as many as 25 of us together enjoying ourselves. One particular activity we all did together was rafting the Rio Grande River. This story describes the activity we all enjoyed. Continue reading
Rio Grande Dry Fly Fishing
As any experienced fisherman will tell you, fly rod fishing is the finest method of any to hook, play, and land a fish. The following story tells how my dad and I used our fly rods for catching Brown Trout on the Rio Grande River near South Fork, Colorado. Continue reading
The Out House
The out house was a very important building on our trips to the cabin at South Fork, Colorado, but sometimes it got to be just as full of shit as old Hawg Jaw Bill. This story describes the procedure we used to solve that problem. Continue reading
Cold Turkey
I was a heavy smoker for 20 years in1986. I had been trying to quit for about 18 years. It took my two beautiful daughters to finally motivate me to get the job done. This story describes how they did it. Continue reading