A Year of Change

It started a couple weeks ago when I was cleaning the house. I’ve been nursing it for a while but probably shouldn’t have lifted weights yesterday. After working out, I was picking up some tennis shoes and bent over to tie a shoe, and bam, that did it. The rest of the day I pretty much tried to lay flat in bed to calm it down. I’m a bit better this morning but not working out today.

Ty is working every day he can. We figured out yesterday, he’s making as much as Lori! She’s in talks to get her long ago promised $50k raise. She’ll get it one way or another. It’s just so wrong that with what she does, what she makes the practice and how important she is, that she has to fight for what was promised to her when she was hired. But good for Ty for working so hard and making what he is.

Sunny today in the high 40’s, tomorrow the high 50’s and Monday it’ll be in the high 60’s. I’m sure we’ll be in the 70’s next week. About time.

Time to go. 7:40 now. Have a great day and God Bless.

Ty worked 12 and a half hours yesterday. He’s trying to get in as many hours as he can before he leaves next Wednesday. He’s back at it this morning, and every day through Tuesday. Good for him.

Lori and I are out of here in 35 minutes to workout. My back is sore but I’ll work through it and she has Pilates.

Cigar night was fun. James leaves Sunday and his first show is in Syracuse Easter weekend. Then Toronto and then I’m not sure where he goes. He’ll get a break around the end of May.

Looks like we’ll miss the snow. Denver looked crappy last night on the news. Jag has 4 graduation ceremonies coming up! There’s the main one, then the Business School, then the Math Department and then the Chinese Department! The kid will be swimming in degrees. He’ll have enough so the whole family can have one! Can you say overachiever?

I’m dealing with tariffs but it’s all good. Nothing to see here, just business.

20 days until the NFL Draft. Excited. The Rockies home opener is today, we’re already 1 and 5, off to another epic losing season. That’s about it. Oh, our Granite Team, which is our Sheriff Department’s drug interaction team, scored 111 pounds of cocaine yesterday here on I-70! That’s a big one. Good for them.

Have a great day, God Bless.

Yesterday we made out last tuition payment! This ends 5 years of paying the University of Colorado Boulder for Jagger. Don’t get me wrong, we were happy to do it, as Jagger I would bet, works harder than anyone in the entire school. But still, what a relief. $3121 a month no more. As you know, we had one year where it was double that, when Ty was at CU Denver. We still have three more months of rent for Jag at $1754 a month, but that’s it. BAM

Yesterday Ty and I made reservations for him to go to Bozeman next Wednesday until the following Monday. He went last year too as his close friend since 7th grade, goes to school there. He was going a week later but then asked if we could change it so he could be here for when Robi and Robert and Tasha come to town. We booked him with miles, so it was pretty cheap.

Lori made it home from Frisco around 7 last night. I was dealing with the tariffs all day long. I’m not too worried though as it is what it is and everyone is in the same boat. We’ll see what happens. There’s actually a silver lining to the whole thing that I can spin, but I won’t get into that.

The roads are clear and dry up here. We have one more mini blast up here I think tomorrow night into Saturday. We’re having cigars tonight at James’s. He hits the road in a week or so to begin the first leg of the 2025 tour which wraps up here in Denver at the end of June. After that he has Ozzy’s last show in Birmingham England on July 5th. Then he’s off until he goes to Australia and New Zealand around November 1st for I think 5 shows. This is a lot easier schedule for him than the last few years.

Time to get moving so we can get to the gym as Lori and I both have big days. Hope all’s well, take care and God Bless.

Yesterday we ended up getting some snow. Nothing stuck to the roads, but it was blowing on and off most of the day. Looks like more of the same on and off for the next few days. Like everything else, this too will pass. Looks like it’ll be in the 70’s by the end of next week. Denver looks sunny on the news right now.

Lori, of course, is in Frisco today. Not sure if Ty is working this morning or not, as he worked a big party last night.

Today we’ll see what tariffs we put in place. With a $1.3 trillion dollar trade deficit, bring it on. Short term pain for long term gain. I would like to see some sort of agreement on alcohol though.

I lifted really hard yesterday morning and then, of course, tweaked my back while vacuuming the stairs. Harley had a bath the other day and then she really sheds for a week or so.

Time to get moving. Not much else going on worth sharing. Have a great Wednesday, God Bless.

No big jokes around here this morning. I remember when we were kids, this was a big day at school! Everyone tried to prank everyone. Fun times.

The news says snow today, but they said that about last night too. All we got last night was some strong winds. No worries, soon it’ll warm up and we’ll be craving cool temps. Ty works at 4 today as he’s working some big birthday party tonight.

Davy parked a car in our driveway last night. It’s Violet’s 16th birthday today. In keeping with the theme of the day, April Fools, they borrowed a junky old Ford Focus and have it in their driveway, with a big bow on it, for her 16th birthday. The real car, is a Volkswagen they leased for a couple years that’s much nicer, which is hiding in our driveway! Funny.

Jag had class last night until 9:30. He aced his econ test, getting 15 out of 16. The average for the class was 25% correct or 4 out of 16 problems solved. Jag, as usual, is way above the rest of his class. He’s been talking with a bunch of different companies that are interested in hiring him. They’re coming up for Easter.

That’s it, time to go, 6am now. Have a great first day of April, God Bless.

Here we are, a third of the way through the year, hard to believe. Seems like we’re just getting going in 2025. April 1st tomorrow.

Lori is in Vail today and Ty is working. Jag has classes until around 9:30 tonight. He only has a little bit more than a month and then is done with college! That means that we, then are done paying for college! In fact, our last tuition payment of $3100 is April 5th and then we’re through, hooray! We do have to pay rent through July.

7 weeks into Trump’s presidency. He’s accomplished way more than Biden did in 4 years, and maybe done more than any President in history when it comes to changing America for the better. There are still a lot of things to fix, and there are still entrenched people in the government that have been abusing the system and stealing from taxpayers for years, trying to hang on and hide. Sooner or later all these people will be exposed. Turns out 24 organizations have been funding the Tesla violence and they’ve been paying people (mostly seniors), $400 dollars a day to show up and protest! Most of these groups have received taxpayer money (from us) to fund the violence. Can’t make this shit up. The majority of America is thrilled and cheering these people getting caught, taken down and kicked off the payroll every day. I can only imagine where we’d be if Kamala won. Our Country would not have been able to recover.

7am now. Time to get moving. Have a great last day of March. Stay safe and God Bless.

After 9 hours on the smoker, my pork shoulder was ready. It turned out great! Marty and Mel came over and had dinner with us. Leftovers will be just as good today, if not better. Lori, at 1pm, made a German Chocolate Cake to go with our meal. What a treat.

Jag and Ava should be home. I talked to them when they made it to Houston around 7:30. Ty’s teeth are still sore, which is to be expected, but he’s working away.

Nice morning up here. Looks foggy in Denver. Should be a normal Spring like week with some on and off rain and temps in the 50’s. April 1st is Tuesday, wow. Three houses on the street now for sale all over $4 million. We think a year from now the market will be much better and prices will be higher. We’re sitting tight for now.

Good old John Hickenlooper, our Senator, is bashing Trump for cutting some services that Denver was wasting a few million dollars on. Typical democrat. To be clear, .15 of 1% of Govt. jobs have been cut. If John’s so worried about a few million dollars, maybe he should talk to his buddy Polis, who just gave $34 million dollars to the Sundance Film Festival to bribe them to come to Boulder. You might remember, no one else offered more than 1 million. More illogical spending of OUR tax dollars. The State is about $1.3 billion over budget, yet we spend money on a film festival. Then we blame Trump. This is how they operate. Wow.

We need to drop an apron for Ty so time to get moving. Hope everyone is well. Have a great March 30th and get ready for April. Lori just reminded me that we have her birthday, Jagger’s graduation and Mother’s Day all in the same week about 5 weeks from now!

God Bless.

As soon as I’m done with the blog this morning, I’ll be firing up the smoker. I have a large pork butt that’s in the fridge covered with a BBQ rub I put on yesterday. It’ll take around 8 to 10 hours, so it should be done around 5pm.

I ended up not going to Denver after all. Ty said he could do it on his own and was going to stay and golf with his buddy. That was great news as I wasn’t looking forward to a 5 hour drive anyhow. He finished his appointment by 10 and left, heading back at 2, which is when they print all passports each day. After he and Caden (his friend), went to pick up his passport, they went golfing. He left Denver around 7 or so and hit big time snow around Georgetown. No snow up here, but it looks like it rained a little bit. Ty’s working today and was feeling like he caught a bad cold last night when he made it home. Lori says it’s withdrawals from not smoking or vaping, which he can’t do after having his teeth pulled. Wish he’d quit.

Our new mattress topper is a game changer. We love it. Jagger called yesterday to check in. They fly home at 5pm this afternoon and will land in Denver around 10:30 or 11 tonight.

That’s it, time to fire up the smoker for the first time this year. Should be good. Have a great last Saturday of March and God Bless.

Yesterday Lori ran down to Denver to get her hair done. This morning, at 7, Ty and I are running down to get his passport renewed. It hadn’t expired and was fine, until I washed it yesterday with his wallet! I was able to get a 10:30 appointment this morning so we’re going to knock it out. With luck, I’ll be back by 2. Lori is going to stay here and work.

Warmer temperatures yesterday. Maybe a little rain tomorrow and Sunday but nothing much. Lori picked up a mattress topper from our bed store in Cherry Creek. They had to make one for our size bed, but it’s like having a whole new mattress! We both slept a lot better last night. It’s made locally in Boulder and is 100% organic and made by these people that make $10,000 mattresses. We’re glad we took a shot on it.

I might grab a pork butt to smoke on the smoker when leaving Denver this morning. Thinking about having some good Mexican food this weekend. Jag and Ava fly home tomorrow. They’re having lots of fun.

Time to make sure Ty is up and get moving. Have a great day and weekend, God Bless.

We learned yesterday that Colorado, to get around the voter passed law called Tabor, which returns excess money to taxpayers, has enacted outrageous fees to steal from us, since we stopped their little increase taxes every year scheme. In 2023, the people of Colorado paid $23.3 Billion, yes Billion, in fees! That puts our effective tax rate at 14.4% which has us taking over the lead in the Country from California. They’re stealing from us through fees on any and everything you can think of, from education to license plates for our cars, to medical insurance, and even essentials to live like fees on your power bill, water bill, phone bill, etc. This is shameful as things have only gotten worse under the Dems rule. No one should be surprised though, as all you need to do is look at any Dem run city or State. When will people wake the hell up?

Record high temperatures today, maybe 80 in Denver. It was 70 up here yesterday and should hit the mid 70’s today. Ty is getting better every day. Having him home is like a second job. Every few hours he wants a milkshake or mashed potatoes or needs something. Lori and I joked, time for him to go back to Madi’s.

Lori is getting her hair done in Denver today. She’d like me to drive her so she can work, but I really don’t want to go. We’ll see, it’s 6am now. If her appointment wasn’t so late, (noon), I’d for sure take her but that time sort of crashes the whole day. It’s so unsafe down there though, I’ll probably drive her anyhow. Hold on, she just said she’ll drive herself, whew, dodged a 5-hour drive there!

I can now go to the gym. Then I’ll get some stuff done around the house. Time for some Spring cleaning. I also need to get the Christmas lights off the two trees in the front yard. They turned the sprinklers on down at the golf course yesterday. Won’t be long now.

The Administration is soldiering along, despite activist judges, handpicked by Dems, trying to stop what the Country voted for. As I said before, all they can really do is slow things down. You’d think by watching the mainstream media, that the whole Country is against Trump, Elon and everyone else, but nothing could be further from the truth. The majority of the people voted for and are still for, the massive cleanup of our out-of-control spending by our out of control, career politicians. Hang tight, things are getting better every single day.

Time to go, have a great March 27th and God Bless.