Chipmunks, bunnies and birds

Every morning we wake up to a menagerie of animals outside gorging themselves on bird seed and a fruit and nut blend. You’d think these animals would have starved before we moved here. They’re fun to watch and clearly love their new source of food. It’s like a free Easter buffet for all of them.

Last night about 9 pm there was a knock on the door. I just realized we don’t have a door bell. I love that! Anyhow I went to the front door to see who it was and there was my cousin Lee and his wife Margret! Lee (Christian, Aunt Rose’s son) lives about a half a mile from us in the lower part of Eagle Ranch. We’d been communicating back and forth for two years but he recently quit Facebook so we hadn’t talked lately. He jogs by the house often and said he watched the whole thing being built. It was a really nice surprise. We figured out we hadn’t seen each other since Tommy’s wedding. His wife is adorable, they’re both conservative and super down to earth. Lee is 67 now and his two of his three boys live here in the valley. The oldest and middle boys were both Marines and Forrest, the oldest, lives in Edwards while Robert and his wife and their kids live with Lee and Margret right now. Walker, the youngest is in England studying alchemy. Robert teaches concealed carry classes at our local shop and Lindsey is an assistant manager at Costco. After seeing pictures of them both, we’re sure we’ve run into them. So what fun to have some family close. Scott, Aunt Rose and Uncle Ted’s oldest son I guess was questionable at best. They haven’t talked to him in over two years and I guess he took about $1 Million from his mom. The youngest of our cousins, Margret, is confined to a wheelchair after a bad stroke and lives in Denver with her husband. Lee says she’s sharp as ever but just lost some motor skills. Sad. Margret, Lee’s wife is great and will be fun to have close. She kept apologizing for barging in but said she just had to see us. She’s also a hugger, hmm.

We just took both dogs for a walk. Harley was like a German guard dog yesterday when the trainer came over and even though we had her in a muzzle, she would try to attack Jennifer. We were all confused but figured out with her ear infection and the new surroundings, she’s just freaked out. After about two hours of working together (all three of us) we finally had her in a good place. She now has her E-collar on and daily and we feed her her meals by hand training her as she eats. She’s doing really well this morning as we all just returned from our morning walk.

Jag and Ty went to Denver yesterday to pick up a microwave for the townhome. Funny when you move out you fix everything but you’ll live with it for years. We need a big push today as Lori starts work tomorrow and my neighbor who has been fixing everything leaves for a month for ski training in Oregon at Mt. Hood on Thursday. He fixed our deck yesterday as structurally it wouldn’t pass inspection. The next door neighbor’s is really bad. Trent is the President of the HOA so he fixed all this on their dime.

The boys are loving life. They need to clean their rooms today as we’re not letting this place turn into our old place. James was supposed to come up and get our three beds yesterday but didn’t show. We’re donating them.

That’s it, time to move and groove. Here’s a picture of some rain out the front door from the other day, looks like a painting! God Bless.

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