Dan went skydiving 10.22.2011

Dan did great but it was only a one time thing.....
Kendyl, Tasha, and Curt all dove too.  It was Kendyl's second time and Tasha and Curt's first.  It was their anniversary present (married 6 years).  I watched little Bella.   

Bella's Baptism - 10.16.2011

 Bella was baptised on 10.16.2011.  We had a big crowd for the event.   Bella did great.  Afterwards we all went to The Olds house for some homemade lasagna with all the fixin's.

Guest at The Olds Ranch

Dan's game camera captured this Buck at The Ranch.  He had flushed him out earlier this weekend, but he returned.  We think he beds down on The Ranch every night.  If he is smart he will stay on our Ranch where he will be safe this hunting season.  We would like for him to get bigger!! 

2nd Annual Olds Ranch Fall Festival

We have purposely delayed our fall event thinking we might get some rain and then the burn ban would be lifted.  However, not to be....  we are still in the grips of a bad drought.

But the 2nd Annual Olds Ranch Fall Festival will happen.
Tracy will cook in the kitchen and we will gather under the porch and have some country fun.

Please join us for a cactus spray paint hunt and lots of good food and fellowship.

Saturday, November 12th  from 11:00-4:00p.

Bring a non-perishable food item for the local food pantry  ....See you then!!

We own a piece of Steamboat!

Dan and I researched and debated and finally decided with the current market it was time to purchase a condo in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. This is our favorite Colorado town because the people that live here are just so friendly AND it has the best skiing in Colorado. Our family has been going to Steamboat for over 25 years - our girls learned to ski here. When we do decide to go to another resort, we have that moment of why did we do this... we should be skiing The Boat! So we bought a fixer upper at The Rockies. It had been partially remodeled and needed alot of work to make it our mountain home. Here are the pictures of our almost completed remodel.   The bathrooms are not quite finished yet, those pictures will be added later.  It is a 2 bedroom, 2 bath unit with an air dream sleeper sofa in the living room.  It sleeps six very comfortably - all are queen sized beds.  We knocked out walls in the bathrooms to make them bigger and also added a combo washer/dryer in the unit.  We do have it in the rental pool with Mountain Resorts and can be requested as your preferred rental at the time of the reservation.  The Rockies is an older complex but the pool and two large hot tubs were redone a few years ago - both are heated year round.  Needless to say we will be there skiing this year - some days in February and in March.  We are also planning on going this summer for some fishing and river tubing!  The market is still very favorable to buyers and I have the best buyer's agent in town and also have made lots of contacts for remodeling and repairs if anyone else is interested.... 

Tank Makeover

Dan and I had a long discussion about the tank here at The Ranch.  We decided to go ahead and spend the money to have it expanded and deepened.  It is dry anyway.  

So here are some work-in-progress pictures.  We have had a scraper, trackhoe and dozer out here working for over a week.  And wouldn’t you know we are not done yet and we got 1.5 inches of rain last night  and now the tank has water in it…..  Good news it still holds water… bad news…we have to pump it out so we can finish lining the bottom with clay….  As soon as The Olds family starts any kind of a building project outdoors… we get rain…..

We think we will have close to .33 acre tank when done

Ranch cabinets

  

 

The ranch kitchen finally looks like a kitchen.

The cabinet maker completed his work and Dan is still doing his trimming and

Tracy is still staining their handiwork. 

It will be awhile before Dan is done with all the trim work because of his busy work schedule, but we are in no hurry now because the kitchen still functions whether we have baseboards or not.  Good thing we got our kitchen done because we have had a burn burn all spring and summer and no sign of it lifting.  This means no grill or fires outside.  We have had some major wildfires in the county and one was caused by a person grilling.

This is my new dual fuel range - it has two ovens...

This is my poker corner

Living room bookshelves... the left side upper has been stained.