Life is Good

 

Sherri enjoying the view from one of the pavillions on the river

The Rio is getting lower as winter moves in

The leaves are falling from the trees and the ground is turning gold

The wind is calm for now and the sun is warming up

I think Sherri is enjoying her great grandson

Jennifer kinda likes here new grandson and Sahra likes him too

Cooler weather is moving in slowly. Day by day we experience temps going down at night. Day time temps are holding on to the 50's and if your in the sun you'll find it much warmer than that.

With our underpinning and the electric heat inside to include our heated holding tanks we have held mid 60's temps inside. This is without using our propane heat believe it or not! We have had lows at night in the teens and know that we will start having temps in the single digits soon. The only thing I dread is when we have singles at night and we don't get above freezing during the day. We will start the cabin fever sindrom when that happens. We had trouble with that last winter when we lost our electric...water...and the batteries went dead and we could not run our propane heat! We had below 0 temps and wind chill that froze our cabin water pipes which in turn burst so that left us without water even when the weather warmed up.

Sherri and I figured if we could make it through those circumstances we could make it in cold weather having heat water and furnace. Not having stayed in Colorado during a winter we both were questioning if we could make it. We did ask the people that stay here in the park year around and they have assured us that we can make it.

Every day our surrounding gets more and more beautiful. Leaves are falling and snow is starting to accumulate on the mountains. I have started to drive up in the mountains where I can get pictures for future paintings. I am working on putting together my studio in our new trailer. It is not near the room I had in Texas but I plan on doing most of my paintings during the warm days of summer. Then I will set up outside so having a indoor studio won't be that important.

We are enjoying our new great grandchild who is visiting us for a couple of weeks. Dakota Scott Patterson is his name and what a great grandchild he is! Our daughter Jennifer lives next door to us and Dakota and mom Sarah are staying with her. Our SIL is on the road so Jennifer is happy having them there with her. We all enjoy each others company and look forward to many years here in Colorado. 

OK nuff said for this post. Sherri and I plan on many adventures here and we hope that you will come along with us as we explore the beauty of Colorado...

Somewhere in Tim