Author Archives: Steve Tilford

Progress

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The mountain weather is fickle. Probably not really fickle, but I’m not used to it. It is so cold in the mornings and evenings. Yesterday around noon, it was so warm we took our shirts off. I was wearing thermal under clothing a couple hours earlier. We got a ton done, but still have a lot of fence to put up. After tomorrow we’ll have most of the fence sort of done. Minus a few gates, etc. I’m not nearly as sore as I was the day before. We’re going to run out of cedar posts and rails. We ordered more, but have to drive to Denver to pick them up. I went for a walk late last night with Bill, Vincent and the dogs. Bromont has a blinky light and was a mile up the mountain in a blink. There are so many stars up here. The Milky Way is so bright. Pretty cool.

I’m flying out to California on Tuesday. So, the fence project needs to accelerate some over the weekend. It was originally supposed to be raining all day tomorrow, but now it looks okay. I was hoping to get down to Boulder sometime this weekend for the cross races. I have no desire to race cyclocross at altitude, but I wouldn’t mind watching. I am virtually positive that I wouldn’t be thinking that I would want to be racing while watching. I know how bad I feel just ridin’ around.

Lots of concrete to mix and move.

It was pretty warm in the afternoon.

Big cedar rails with Horse Fencing. Nice mountain look.

Trudi nailing staples.

I drink a lot of tea. I didn't realize that Lipton Tea bragged so much of its antioxidant properties. I doubt that is the reason most people buy it.

The dogs love the snow and mountains.

It's nearly a dog resort.

Halloween Sunday

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Yesterday was pretty good. It got super warm for here. Nearly 60. We worked until 2 or so and then went for a 40 mile ride on our MTB bikes. 8000 to 9000 feet didn’t feel as bad as I had anticipated. There are tons of nice houses up in the mountains. Great views. I’ll put some photos below. If there wasn’t snow on the ground 6 months a year, this wouldn’t be a bad place to live.

So, it is only going to be 40 today. Vincent has to go back down to Denver tonight and get the rest of the cedar we ordered. We should be done by tomorrow. I had hoped to have enough time to go down to Boulder this afternoon, but that isn’t going to happen. We’ll probably go over to Steamboat Springs tomorrow to say hi to Kent Eriksen. Then I have to pack up my bike and fly to LA. I should be pretty beat by then.

Pumpkin pancakes for breakfast today.

Riding on the bike path around Lake Dillon.

Vincent's dog Jack is showing me how to use the Boso Ball.

I guess it snows abunch around here in the winter or there are really big dogs around here somewhere.