Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Rocky Mountain highs
Look! Our new house! Built in 1875! All of 780 square feet! Two beds! One "bath"! Only $135,000 -- and 20 miles out in the middle of nowhere! A-hahaha. Juuuussssst kidding. Dr. ER and I agreed that that's just a leetle too "rustic." But it's real, in Gold Hill, Colo., which actually might be a fine place to visit, but not live full-time -- and I'm not really even sure about visiting, since it actually is a townsite, and all the cabins are very close together. Ah, no. If I'm going to live in the mountains, I'm going to have to have same dadgum space between my place and the next one.How Dr. ER and I really spent the weekend ...
Where we looked for houses: Nederland, and Black Hawk.
Woo hoo. Know why the Nederland link says "call for price"? Probably because the market is way volatile right now -- as in falling. Ergo, the best thing Dr. ER and I can do is bide our time and NOT get in a hurry. ER predicts that first-quarter numbers will show home prices in the Denver metro actually go backwards in the first quarter. Numbers available (the only ones I trust) here on May 31.
Where we had Mama's Day supper: Boulder ChopHouse.
My search for the perfect steak has ended -- in my own kitchen. I swear, I can pan fry a ribeye, with a little Lowery's, garlic powder, thyme and fresh-cracked black pepper, with a dollop of butter just as I take it up, that will beat anything you can buy in a restaurant. The Boulder joint was OK, that's all. And they do not actually now sell a microbrewed stout -- "aged in Old Grandad whiskey barrels" -- that is mentioned on their Web page. Unpardonable.
Where I went to church Sunday morning: Community United Church of Christ.
There was a kids' program, a play called "Nurtured by Nature." Very fun and cool. A great melding of the concepts of the Love of Christ and the care we should take with Mother Earth. (Of course! It's Boulder. The small congregation was very gracious and welcoming. When they asked me to introduce myself, I told 'em I was a "recovering Southern Baptist," which, of course, got a big laugh, and I told 'em I was a member of Mayflower Congregational-UCC Church in Oklahoma City, which several of them seemed to have heard of, which I don't doubt, it being a rare blue pinpoint of light on the red, red Southern Plains).
Here's a call-and-response poem one of the members, Cathy Russell, wrote, which also is the framework for the kids' play:
"Nurtured by Nature"
By Cathy Russell
Leader: In the free flowing river,
People: He was baptized.
Leader: In the wilderness,
People: The angels ministered to him.
Leader: On a high mountain top,
People: He was transfigured.
Leader: By the shore,
People: He fed the multitudes.
Leader: From the mount,
People: He taught of love and forgiveness.
Leader: By the cool mountain stream,
People: His blessings flow on.
Leader: In the quiet of creation,
People: We are with the One, nurtured by nature.
Where I bought the highest-priced gasoline I've ever bought: $3.49 per gallon. At a Valero at Interstate 70 and U.S. Highway 183 in Hays, Kan. Ouch.
--ER
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Are all the cabins that are close together that old? If so, I wonder if they were built that close for security reasons.
Does Dr. ER work in Boulder or Denver?
As close as I live to my neighbors, I keep telling DH we're going to retire to a 10-acre spread with the house smack in the middle so no one can get too close to us. My dad's idea of peaceful living is having to pack a lunch to go see your neighbor. :)
Does Dr. ER work in Boulder or Denver?
As close as I live to my neighbors, I keep telling DH we're going to retire to a 10-acre spread with the house smack in the middle so no one can get too close to us. My dad's idea of peaceful living is having to pack a lunch to go see your neighbor. :)
# posted by 
: 10:28 AM
: 10:28 AM
Dill Pickle Place! What a great name for a road. Too bad there's no house on that land--it'd take a while to build.
Oh, and failing to follow up on an advertised stout is most certainly unpardonable, stouts being the epitome of what beer should be.
Oh, and failing to follow up on an advertised stout is most certainly unpardonable, stouts being the epitome of what beer should be.
Here's my idea of a Colorado home. Find a hillside halfway up the first foot hills of the mountains facing out over the plains. Bulldoze a road and a shelf. Build a garage at the bottom of the road for winter. Use a golf cart and snow mobile to get to the house on the shelf. Stick four cabooses there in a row,build a deck all along side of them, and maybe a box car or two, stacked up even maybe, and enjoy the view. Just make sure you build on a slope of more than 30 degrees and on the bulge of the slope not in a snow avalanche, or landslide chute.
That way ten flat acres of survey will actually give 15 to 18 surface acres.
Well it was a though anyway.
If you want to explore Arvada or environs. let me know and I'll give you a contact.
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That way ten flat acres of survey will actually give 15 to 18 surface acres.
Well it was a though anyway.
If you want to explore Arvada or environs. let me know and I'll give you a contact.
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