Kelley and I have had a nice day today. We are sitting on our front porch right now, in the shade. Kelley is talking with her parents. They have a nice tradition where they talk each Sunday.
I went for an early morning walk to get a newspaper. Woah, man, that's it...I am officially old...going for walks in the morning. I can't run every day since my knees won't hold up, so I go for walks more and more often it seems. I got the NY Times today, which is sort of a splurge, since the price is now $6 on Sundays.
Kelley and I attended church (via Skype...also on our front porch) then we walked downtown to have a muffin and read the paper some more. We enjoyed a lazy walk through downtown Boulder and along with our initial destination we ended up getting a birthday gift for our soon-to-be one year old niece, Ella. Kelley stopped at a few sidewalk sales but we made it out without any additional purchases (except for some candy from a gum ball machine).
We then "borrowed" the pool key from our friend Eric and laid out in the sun for a bit. That was nice.
I'm going to borrow some golf clubs this evening from my buddy John and go to the driving range because I haven't golfed since May 2008 and in a few weeks we are going to MI to have a vacation with our families. I need to loosen up a bit prior to being embarrassed by my dad and brother on the course during that trip.
Rumor is that Kelley is going to paint a bit this afternoon?
It felt good to be home today since I've been gone for most of the past 5 days. I spent 3 days travelling to/from Iowa. Then I spent 2 days at the Weld County Fair in Greeley, CO. I had an exhibit there for our wind turbines.
Kelley played in a beach volleyball tournament yesterday.
That's the news from Lake Wobegon (only people who listen to NPR and "Prarie Home Companion" will understand that last bit).
Bye for now.
David and Kelley
I am heading to El Paso, TX this weekend to visit my cousin Matthew and his family.
On Sunday we headed to Rocky Mountain National Park for a long hike.
Monday, we visited the Celestial Seasonings tea factory and went for a short hike / rock climb trip in Boulder.
At the top of our hike in Boulder.
A visit to Kelley's office at work.
I was quite impressed to see that my little brother, Daniel, got into the festivities of his little girl's birthday by wearing this appropriately colored pink shirt!
Needless to say, this was a new type of experience for me. For Kelley, it was like going back to her youth as a 4-H member. 
It was a pretty small event. The city of Briggsdale is pretty small too, but people came from all over CO and WY to have their children participate. Here is the "show ring" where the children showed their goats, lambs and cows. 
I was stationed about 40 ft from the show ring, strategically located next to the concessions area. Every 30 minutes of so, Brian (from "the Barn") would announce the on-site sponsors. There were 2 of us. A "tack" shop (which sells farm supplies, livestock feed, animal grooming stuff, etc) and Renewable Options and Investments (ROI a.k.a. me). Each time Brian did his anouncement about ROI, he would add a bit more "color" to the announcement...
Kelley spent a bit of time painting outside. 
And this was a beautiful, modern, wind turbine farm we passed. 
There we some interesting formations on the prarie known as the Pawnee Buttes.
And finally, we couldn't resist, taking this shot. 
During out hike back down I caught Kelley with an excited look on her face.
It is pretty nuts because this is just a road side park along I-70 and you can venture into a beautful river / mountain lake hike.
Pie eating contest. 
We rode a ski lift up the mountain and took some shots on the way. 
Here are the state flowers...Columbines.
Kelley spend some time painting...
and quickly gained some admirers.
