June 8-12, 2014 Colorado

Busy few days. We need to get back on the bus to relax.

We drove down to Denver to have lunch with a couple of John’s sisters, niece and family. Bridget(sister), Katie(sister), Levi(grand nephew), Jenny(niece), John and Sadie(sister in law). Katie and Sadie came to Denver to do flowers for a friends wedding and Bridget hitched a ride to visit her daughter Jennie and her family. They drove just for the weekend. Levi and Jenny laughing.  It was fun to see everyone.

Jennie, Levi, Michael and Dean. Such a cute family. The next day the bus was done with it’s maintenance so John and I went back to Denver to pick it up. Blue skies, green grass and snow still on the mountains on the way back to Denver.

John came over to help with the painting of my house. Then he got a ride to bus and took it home. I stayed way late and continued painting. John dropped the bus off and had the carpets cleaned the next day.

My brother Jerry and my friend J came over. J did some weeding while I painted. This is J with one of the ‘weeds’ she took home. The patio was overgrown with the plants. Most of the house is done now, you can see it behind J and in this second photo.

I came back to Denver again the next day and finished up the garage, green house and front. We also had painted the fence. Looks great. My cousin Reed rents and takes care of the house from me. This wild flower is a prickly poppy growing by the bike path in Fort Collins.

View from the bike path. It has been pretty cloudy and stormy lately. Some severe thunderstorms , flooding and large hail in the area, but we dodged the bullet. John found a leak under the bus and took it back to Denver today to have it fixed, then back again to Denver. I think the bus is done now. I hope it is done.  Thursday nights they are having free concerts in the square in Old Town. The square is only about 2 blocks from the house. Tonight was the Young Ancients- and that included a couple of the musicians from the Subdudes, a band John likes.  Great music and great people watching.

Part of the square in Old Town.  We take walks after dinner thru Old Town. Lots of restaurants and bars  with patios. People out biking and strolling. Nice summer evening.