Week 3 of Trees

Week Three, Oct 20! I think I am going to have trees (maybe in a few years, but I think I am making trees!)

Tree Update!

Okay, a week into this process, and I have some buds on the twigs. Now IF I have roots coming, I don't want to disturb that end yet to see, but if buds are on the twigs I have hope!

Autumn Harvest

Colorado Autumn

Pumpkins are ripe, Pikes Peak in the distance, nights are crisp and cool, time for Mother Nature to start putting her children to sleep for the winter.

Trees and Life!

Why is life SO busy, we are retired... Seems I seldom have time for anything anymore... Thank goodness for the internet (I think!).

I have wanted to plant trees up here in this desert climate, but (1)-trees are SO expensive and (2)-we are retired! So I found some websites (trust worthy) that tell how to propagate trees. This starts with small saplings, I am rooting them myself, but excited about the results!

Some of these trees, and I am assuming this will work, will take longer to "grow up" than I have life left, but thats okay! Again assuming it works, I will have many trees! I started with some "not so drought resistant" trees, but will go on to more evergreens and such. Besides, just how

many trees ARE drought resistant???!

So this is what my first attempt looks like:

These are all Globe Willows, or Umbrella Willows. If this works, several of us will have new trees, Baby Trees!! One note - One of the twigs I rooted upside down, wonder if it will grow?? And if all of them die, I will try again.

I don't know what the above trees are, I cut them off my daughters trees in Denver, she said she would find out what they were.

So watch for future news on my little treelets!

Life as It Is!

We have had a lot of things going on the last few months, I really need to blog about some of them maybe!

We spent some time in the valley, but didn't do harvest this year. We have been helping Beth and Mark with their BBQing, and doing some judging. We have made friends with many of the other judges, most of who are really nice people. There are a few who "think" they know it all, know exactly what BBQ should taste like and look like. But thankfully those are few and far between. Sure hate to be at a judging table with someone like that though...

Tom had surgery on his shoulder Tuesday, Sept 7. It officially was a Distal Clavicle Resection, or cutting the tip of the collar bone off. The part that goes into the shoulder. I sure hope it will stop the pain that he has been in... The recovery time is usually a couple months. We are scheduled to camp at Rocky Mountain National Park the last week of September so hope he heals fast and good!!

We went to Garden City, Kansas a couple weeks ago for judging. It was so hot, and wind. Man the dust storms, wow!

We have signed up for the Havasu BBQ in February. They already have a lot of judges, so don't know if we will be able to or not. Sure is a good excuse to go to Arizona in the winter!

Fall is occasionally in the air, heard it snowed in Yellowstone yesterday. And a tropical storm hit Texas! Hate winter to come, I really really dislike snow!

Jeff Foxworthy Hasn't Seen It All!!!

Remember I said to notice this beautiful home. . .? Beautiful sitting, far from the hustle and bustle of city living, living off the grid with solar units and batteries. In a "development of other homes with at least 40 acres each. Splendid life. . .!

Just notice the workmanship, all hand cut, all hand made by the owners of the property, especially a very special lady who I shall just call CJ!

She has done most of the work, including shoveling many many loads of dirt for the beautiful garden/sitting area which is terraced. This couple has a goal and that's to have a home without "owing" any money on it! Admire her? Oh yes!!

Beautiful home. . . CJ does NOT know the meaning of "can't", she forges ahead and ends up with a mighty fine project! And to make it even more meaningful, she's a cook, a great cook, a super cook!

Humm, look closer. . . What the heck????

Wow, what a gorgeous home, but what's that showing through the windows????

LOOK INSIDE!! Step through that beautiful front door and see how this couple is doing this home!! They first moved a @14x70 foot mobile home on the property and proceeded to build this 2,000 sq. foot home around it while all the time having a place to live!! Their plans will eventually be to tear this mobile home down, piece by piece. They even left an area in the foundation to pull out the tongue and axles when they get through! I would guess this to eventually be a $300k home, maybe more!

Hummmm, wonder what she could do with this?!!!

Another Colorado Sunrise!!

Taken this morning, Aug. 12, 2010 from my front porch in Coal Creek. It was breathtaking.