I almost missed today, I am actually posting this tomorrow morning. I got caught up in a book I was reading and neglected my blog. I must be a bad person. No, seriously, I occasionally miss and have to play catch-up. Not a bad day for work today, there were a few orgizational changes that in the long run will make my life easier, and I am sort of thankful for that.
I tried to go swim today, but once again the pool had a school group over in the ricer walk area, therefor all of the river walkers were in the lap pool and also there was a swim lesson that was taking on lane out of four, and I have limited time at lunch so this was just not going to work. I ended up doing a walk along the Toll Gate trail instead.
I think it may be about time for our visitors to go home for the Summer.
Total distance: 4.04 mi Max elevation: 5612 ft Min elevation: 5533 ft Total climbing: 260 ft Total descent: -253 ft Average speed: 4.20 mi/h Average cadence: Average heart rate: 111 Average temperature: 29.7 Total time: 00:58:04
The rest of the day was normal. Nothing to exciting and nothing different. I think that will wrap up the 26th.
Today was a vacation day!!!! Took the day off so that I could go explore Red Rock Park a bit, there were two hiking trails that I wanted to do and today was forecast to be a beautiful day and I decided to take advantage of it. So, got up at my normal time, let the dogs out, gave them their snacks, and waited for Jesse to do their morning walks. We have a routing that we do not mess with. Once Jesse got back with them it was time to get the day started.
I packed a bunch of water, some snacks and did the hour drive out to the West to Red Rocks Park.It took me a while to find the right parking lot for the trail I wanted to start with. For some reason things are not marked very well, but a quick download an a full years’ subscription to All Trails, I was able to find what I was looking for. And, yes, I think All Trails was worth it because there were a couple questionable trail markers on the loop and I was very happy to have the maps downloaded onto my phone.
Ignore the distance on the above screenshot. I must have clicked start on the trail before I was even at the parking lot. The app is a little strange, but it is good. Don’t put in your pocket and expect it to provide a good map, it doesn’t. But once you have it out of your pocket and let it get a GPS fix it will re-orientate itself and show you where you are vs where you should be.
I started off with the Red Rocks and Morrison Slopes Trail loop. This is a 3.5 mile loop with a total elevation climb of 853ft. The trail is a bit rocky, and there are areas that you have to have really good footing. But, let me tell you, it was worth it! The views along the way were awesome, and it was sort of neat to look down and see how far you have climbed.
Enjoy the photos I took along the way. this is just sort of a camera dump, no editing has been done. The day continues under the album.
My Garmin provided a pretty good track of the trail.
Total distance: 3.83 mi Max elevation: 6789 ft Min elevation: 6207 ft Total climbing: 1087 ft Total descent: -1079 ft Average speed: 2.93 mi/h Average cadence: 50 Average heart rate: 114 Average temperature: Total time: 01:29:45
After I did the Red Rock and Morrison Slide Loop trails I got back to the car and changed parking lots. I didn’t hike over because the next trail had some steeper climbing sections and I wanted to car closer. I parked at the start of the Geological Overlook Trail and decided that I was going to turn that trail into a loop.
The Geological Overlook trail starts at the base of some red rock formations and continues up towards the amphitheater and then you can either turn around and do the trail in reverse or walk the amphitheater and do a loop around the lower parking lot and back to the start of the trail. I chose the loop as I hate backtracking on trails.
And I am going to bore you to death with another photo album that I took on the hike. This is not edited and is just a photo dump. I think it is more fun that way, hey, I don’t know what you want to see. The day continues under the album.
I did walk up and down the few hundred steps of the amphitheater, it looked like they were getting setup for a show, the vendors were setting up and the stage area was roped off. Not sure who is playing there tonight. The loop I did was 1.91 miles with a 614 elevation climb. Of course the mystery is how I went up 614ft and only down 420ft and ended up at the same place I started. I guess we will never know.
The Garmin track from my watch was decent in case anyone is interested.
Total distance: 1.94 mi Max elevation: 6676 ft Min elevation: 6260 ft Total climbing: 684 ft Total descent: -655 ft Average speed: 2.67 mi/h Average cadence: 51 Average heart rate: 115 Average temperature: Total time: 00:52:47
Anyways, I am back home now. It’s 89 degrees outside, and it is way too hot to do much of anything else. I am going to relax with the kids (Climber and Res), and enjoy the rest of my day off. I will probably wrap up this post a little later this evening.
Very busy day today, but also a very rewarding day. Got up around 6:30am MT with the dogs, did the outs, the ins, and the snacks. Sat down with my coffee and previewed my email for the day. Not too bad first thing in the morning. After I heard Jesse get up I migrated to my downstairs office and got the day started. Downstairs office is important as I have two additional screens for my laptop and it gives me the real-estate I need to work in this paperless environment.
Spent most of my morning working on pricing requests and finishing that large pricing project that has been lingering. It’s DONE! (For now) and submitted. I think I did it right, I can support all my numbers and I was somewhere between the engineer and the contractor when I finished everything, and that is always a good place to be. And, in between those projects I also had some tech support issues that came up.
I was able to get away today and spend some time in the pool. Thankfully I had a good workout and was able to get my mile swim in. I also decided to toss out that workout written by someone else and do my own thing, this has always worked for me in the past, I don’t think I cam going to change it. I am about 11 weeks out from the start of the Mountain Swim Series and I need to be ready. The goal is a 5K (3.12 miles) with 0 rest breaks and as much freestyle as possible, using breakstroke to give me my sighting and rest breaks. I am not sure how will this will go, but if I can do that I should not have any issues with the 2.4 mile swim in June.
Got back to my desk in about an hour (including swim time) and spent the rest of the day getting caught up with my exploding list of cause of loss determinations, pricing, tech support, resolution reviews, and so on. I spent a little bit of extra time making sure everything was caught up at the end of the day because I am taking tomorrow off. I want to do some exploring. Where you ask? Well, let’s wait until tomorrow evening and I will let you know.
Anyways, I am here, relaxing with the dogs, and enjoying my evening before a day off.
Res and Climber say, “See you tomorrow”, they do not know they are staying home for the day while I go out. Maybe next time I will take one of them with me, but not this time as I haven’t been there before.
Who’s the innocent dog? You get one guess. The easier question may be who’s the overgrown puppy?
This is going to be a short post. Today was just another day. It was a workday and for some reason I wasn’t feeling 100%. My coffee didn’t sit well with me this morning, not sure why. It happens occasionally and there isn’t much I can do about it. I got up with the dogs around 6:30am, got everyone out and then snacked and say down with my email. I had a bunch to start the day off.
I spent the morning working, and I did make real progress on my pricing project. In fact by late afternoon I got it finished. Unfortunately that meant that I was not able to get to the 50+ tech support issues I had. I will get to those starting tomorrow. I hate being in double digits through no fault of my own.
I went down to the rec center for lunch to try and swim, lap pool was closed for some reason. So, I did get in a 6 mile walk to get my steps in. I am still not sure if my watch is counting properly, but that’s OK, it’s just a guide anyways.
Total distance: 5.57 mi Max elevation: 5662 ft Min elevation: 5559 ft Total climbing: 380 ft Total descent: -371 ft Average speed: 4.17 mi/h Average cadence: Average heart rate: 107 Average temperature: 26.6 Total time: 01:20:28
Got back from lunch, finished my day and now I am sitting here typing this and watching the dogs sleep. They have to get in their beauty sleep 🙂
Anyways, I am sorry that I can’t really think of more to write today, it was just a normal day.
We had a busy but good day today. I got up as normal around 7AM which is normal for a weekend. My internal alarm does not vary too much between weekdays and weekends, so it’s normal. I let the dogs out, gave them their treats, and sat down with my coffee and email. I was again surprised to find not too much. Why surprised? We did our Winter 2026 software release and app update at work and I was expecting some fall-out. One or two emails, but not the quantity I expected at all.
Anyways, once Jesse got up I started the dog walk process. First comes Res, who is for the most part such a good boy on his walks. His only issue is that he wants to sniff every tree and respond to all the Pee Mail left by other dogs along the way. Yeh, that takes a while. But, he decided to go past our normal turn around point and we did almost 3 miles today. I was surprised he wanted to go that far but it was a little cooler than normal.
After Res it’s Climber’s turn. She started out her walk great, but when we got to the end of the park, she wanted to cross the street and do our normal walk past the credit union. Nope, today we were turning left because I wanted her to do a different walk. But, what no one realizes is that while this plan was well thought out. Climber is stubborn. For the next 1/4 mile it was almost like purposely missing a turn on Google Maps. “Make a U-turn” 15,000 times and then finally “Re-routing”. It took us to get to our 3/4 mile point before Climber realized that we were trying something new and then she decided, “cool – let’s go!”
When all was said and done Climber and I did a little over 4 miles. And, then she ran around the house like the puppy she pretends to be before Jesse and I had breakfast. Climber has unlimited energy. After a great egg, sausage, and croissant breakfast, Jesse went out to the yard to blow the leaves off the yard, while I went and did my Sunday swim at the rec center. I walked the 2.25 miles down and back, did a 1000yd swim in-between. I had wanted to get my steps in for one of the Garmin challenges, but I also wanted to get back into the pool, this was the easy solution for both. Tomorrow will most likely be a “pool only” workout because of time and not wanting to overdo it, which is always a danger.
I got back from my workout and then went outside and joined Jesse in Spring yard cleanup. Today was the day to put the irrigation line that I laid out yesterday under the rock so the dogs don’t trip over it or the squirrels don’t eat it. As I may have mentioned yesterday we think there is going to be some serious water rationing this year. By reducing the spread and gallons per minute of the irrigation for the gardens we can decrease our water usage. We really like the micro-mist irrigation and have used it before in Florida.
Jesse ended up helping me put the rack back into the trenches I had dug as this was really a two person job, and then it was time to wrap it up for the afternoon. It doesn’t all have to get done on a single day. After a little bit of down time it was time to take the dogs for their evening walk, dinner for them, and then dinner for us.
Now we are done for the day, sitting down and relaxing for the evening. And with that another day is done. We will see you tomorrow. Goodnight!
It was a busy day today. I started the day off in my normal fashion, got up, dogs out, dogs given morning snacks, and then sat down with coffee and my email to see if anything additionally bad had happened overnight. I was pleasantly surprised, my email was not overwhelmed at all. Maybe all of our advance messaging on the app updates at work helped a little.
Doing this out of order, but a little later in the day I did finish my release testing and found a few minor problems and one major one on the iOS app. The Android is fine, I didn’t find anything wrong. I used to have the attitude that I liked Apple products because they just work. My recent experience has been different and I have grown to appreciate the Android product line more and more. Even the apps developed for Android are just better apps. Anyways, got that done and submitted my testing findings to my manager and it looks like the development team was watching the document as well.
Jumping back to this morning, I had my Physical Therapist appointment this morning over at UC Health for my left shoulder. I am now a little more positive about getting ready for the Mountain Swim Series in June. My PT wants me to get back into the pool and start swimming again. He thinks that it may actually help the area in my shoulder that is hurting. He says that I carry my left shoulder in a tighter fashion than my right one, and that is causing pain on my trapezius muscle and he could feel a knot in that muscle that is hard to get rid of. I got 20 minutes of massage and then we did some mild weight work, I think I will be able to follow that in the gym with a few dumbbells. Anyways, he wants to see me again next Saturday at the same time after I swim for the week. I will probably do 4-5 swims between now and then. I am taking one day and going hiking at Red Rocks and that will not be a swim day.
After the appointment I decided to check out a new trail (well new to me) that I have ridden light rail next to many times but keep saying I need to make time to check this out, and this is the first time I have been able to do so. It’s really neat. The paved trail goes North from the Fitzimins R Line station and first goes through the Cotton Wood Discovery Center. I found a few interesting things there but the most interesting one was a series of “Bee Hotels” that are designed for “solitary bees”, I never knew it was a thing, but look it up sometime, it’s really. There are bees that are not honeybees and are not part of hives, but they are still pollinators. These hives, or Bee Hotels were built for those bees.
At the Cotton Wood discovery center there was also a few areas to learn about the cottonwood trees and some of the history behind them.
Leaving the Cotton Wood Discovery center and heading West (I think) we leave Aurora and cross into Denver along the Sand Creek Greenway. There was a beaver that has been busy on one of the trees along the trail.
From there I had a bit of a climb, and finally got to a spot overlooking the creek and had a beautiful view of the mountains. There should be much more snow at a much lower elevation. We are going to have water and fire issues this year.
I finally reached the Bluff Lake Nature center which looks like it is brand new, or has just been rebuilt. I never knew this existed. It’s a trail and visitor center, as well as several learning areas for local school groups around Bluff Lake. Seems also to be a bird watching paradise because there were several bird photographers around with extremely expensive equipment trying to capture the perfect photo. I think I do pretty well with my Samsung Galaxy A24 Ultra Android phone.
I was able to get a few pretty neat 360 degree panoramic views as well. Click into it and look around! See if you can spot the dude with the extremely expensive equipment on one of the banks. Actually he was a pretty friendly guy, was pleasant when I walked by and I think I may have accidentally messed up his shot when the bird took off.
They also had some really neat waterfalls and little rapids in the stream as it went by. I think a few school groups may visit here because they have a locked up area for nets and river shoes.
I took the time to walk all of the trails that are open, there were some areas that are closed and are still under development, it was time to head back. I headed back to the parking lot staying on the Sand Creek Green way, following the creek back in the direction of Toll Gate Park. One of my future plans will be to walk that last 3 miles of Sand Creek Green way where it connects to Toll Gate Trail (which I have done all of). When I had completed all of this I was surprised that I was just over 6 miles walking. I thought it was a bit longer than that given that I had crossed over into Denver.
Total distance: 6.1 mi Max elevation: 5351 ft Min elevation: 5289 ft Total climbing: 397 ft Total descent: -384 ft Average speed: 4.08 mi/h Average cadence: Average heart rate: 106 Average temperature: 31.5 Total time: 01:33:10
When I got home I saw the Jesse had gotten the front flower bed under the garage window ready for planting. We have held off on doing anything with this because we really wanted to see if anything was going to grow in it on it’s own. When you move into a house you never know what you are going to find. Well, last year all that grew was weeds. We need to see what Jesse has planned to put in here. I think he wants to go with Colorado Native Perennials that are water wise (we really have to conserve water here).
For the afternoon Jesse and I made some needed changes to my VHF antenna on the roof. It needed to be lifted up a little higher, it still needs another 5ft of pole, but I don’t want to do that until after the house is painted and we have it secured better to the gable over Jesse’s office. I also need to run some grounding wires as if it goes any higher it is going to be a lightning attraction issue. Once that project was done Jesse started putting seeds in the seed trays so that we will have our veggies for the Summer growing season which looks like it is going to be longer than normal.
I went and started laying out the changes to the irrigation system that I am going to make this year. We really do not understand why the prior owners watered all of the rock along with the little gardens and lawn. To us this is a major waster of water and money. So, I am going to use drip and micro-spray irrigation in the gardens that are spread through the rock. The other part of this is that the piping that is in the ground is old and is starting to decay. We have 3-4 major leaks that I have already abandoned parts of the system in the last year alone. That project will be ongoing and but I want to get the main part of it done before I put water into the system, which I know I am going to have to do sometime in the next month or so.
To round out the evening we took the dogs for a short walk, it was a little warm for them outside today and with the temperature swings we have been having I do not want to push it with them too much on temperatures. Then it was rest time until dinner. We had hot dogs and potato salad, Climber and Res had their mix of chicken/veggies/rice with kibble. Everyone was happy.
I think this is where I call it a day. It was a positive day, nothing to complain about, and I am grateful every day that we moved out of Florida, that Jesse is here, that we have Res and Climber, and that we are slowly making progress on the things that matter to us most with the house. See you tomorrow!
Today started off as most others did. Got up my normal time, let the dogs in and out and in and out. Climber must have had an emergency, she never goes out twice in the morning. Res was having a good morning, he woofed at me to hurry up in the bedroom before I brought them downstairs, there may or may not have been a play-bow involved. As I said, he was having a good day.
After I found out I forgot to set the timer for the coffee maker last night and started that, I worked through my email and got the rest of the project in Visio I was working on yesterday pretty much done for the first version. I was happy with the initial version. I know I am going to have to make some changes further down the line, but that’s OK. Everyone including my manager expects that. My boss is one of the best I have ever worked for, provides guidance when needed, will tell me if I mess up, will tell me if I do something great, and is more likely to take a hands off approach unless there could be legal consequences to material made public, all of which I appreciate.
I got out for my lunch break about 11:00 and went and did a 7 mile walk today. I am having trouble getting my 10K steps per day in without spending a bunch of time with walks. I will finish this month doing it this way but am going to change things up in April and do smaller walks as breaks. If I do 4 walks around the park I can get my 6 miles or so in. I am also still considering the rec center walk with a swim in the middle, but I have to have enough time in the day to do that. I am trying very hard not to drive places if I really don’t have to. The price of gas has gotten ridiculous again.
I got to see my Prairie Dogs again at the bottom of Power Line Trail. There are hundreds of them out here just sunbathing and looking our of their holes and digging more tunnels. They are so cute.
Total distance: 7.04 mi Max elevation: 5646 ft Min elevation: 5461 ft Total climbing: 461 ft Total descent: -461 ft Average speed: 4.64 mi/h Average cadence: Average heart rate: 124 Average temperature: 30.5 Total time: 01:33:16
I am taking a day off next week and am going to go explore Red Rock Park. That should be fun, I know many years ago my brother took me there when I visited him, but I have not had a chance to go back since. And, it really is not that far from the house here, drive out in the morning, spend most of the day, and then home in the afternoon. There is a hike I want to do there. I really do need to get back into the pool as well because the Mountain Swim Series keeps getting closer.
I may next week trade off some swimming for my steps also, I am not sure yet, I need to talk with my PT tomorrow. There is a chance that I will also decide to hold off another week or so to give my shoulder a chance to heal a little more. I really messed it up when I was shoveling snow that last heavy snow we had. It was too heavy for the snow blower and we needed to make some space in the back yard for the dogs. This last snow we just left it. I really wanted the water on the lawn and we are going to be under some serious water rationing this Summer. A little bit concerned about that.
Back to work for the rest of the afternoon. I was able to finish most of my pricing, I have one large pricing project left that I would like to get done by Monday, but if it goes over a bit it won’t hurt anyone. It’s a two claim in one project, one for electrical pricing, and one for the HVAC pricing. The electrical pricing will be the difficult one as I have to work from photos and an adjuster’s documentation. It is so much easier when I can go to the site and see it as I am pricing it. The HVAC file is easier as it’s based on sq ft and use of the building. I’ll get it done.
Anyway, I am here watching the Aves on TV playing Chicago, hockey is the only team sport I will watch. Unfortunately ticket prices are so expensive I can’t afford to go see them live. TV has to do. And, I am watching the dogs nap. Not sure how long that will work.
And Jesse just got home from Costco, he only had 4 items in the shopping bag. Sort of amazing, and with that I think I am going to call it a day. Tomorrow I have a PT appointment in the morning, and then I am going to go for my Saturday walk and explore a park that I haven’t had a chance to explode yet, and then I am going to maybe go to REI or Sketches and see if I can find a decent pair of hiking/trail shoes that won’t break the bank. And then this weekend I have a bunch of other things I want to get done around the yard.
Started off the day at my normal time, getting up around 6:30am and letting the dogs out and giving them their treats, and then watching them do their post snack, pre-walk morning nap while I was having my first cup of coffee and checking my email for anything urgent. It started off as a pretty calm day, and pretty much remained that way. It was already about 50 degrees this morning.
I took my lunch about 10:30AM [I work on an Eastern Time schedule so it was 12:30PM ET] and went out for my long walk/hike that I am trying to do every day. My stride length is so long that it takes about 6.25 miles to get my 10,000 steps in. Then anything extra I walk during the day is just excess. On my walk today I saw the cutest and friendliest whippets, 3 of them and one of them looked a lot like Peanut and jumped up and gave me a few kisses.
Then I saw some geese in one of the creeks, it looked like one of them is the fun police sitting up on the bank and overseeing the children.
Then I finished up by heading up the hills on Power Line trail and back to the house. Took a little longer than I wanted to, but I will make up the time later in the evening by catching up on some training and procedural documentation that I am trying to get done. Wasn’t a bad hike at all, reasonable time and some elevation.
Total distance: 6.46 mi Max elevation: 5657 ft Min elevation: 5509 ft Total climbing: 407 ft Total descent: -407 ft Average speed: 4.35 mi/h Average cadence: 58 Average heart rate: 119 Average temperature: Total time: 01:30:45
I sat back down at my desk and spent another four hours getting my work done. At around 2:30PM I cam back upstairs and started letting the dogs out and in for their sunbathing time while I was working on email, pricing, and document review. It’s going to be really tempting this Summer to setup a table outside that I can work on while supervising the dogs in the yard. Anyways, both Climber and Res enjoyed some outside time. Climber has a leash attached to her because we are still working on “yard manners” when they are out together. Climber likes to get Res worked up and at time it gets wild enough that we worry about vet visits from someone falling. We don’t think they would ever go after each other, so that is not the concern. Anyways, they enjoyed their outside time.
After some out time they had their afternoon walk in the park, about 1/2 a mile and then it was time for dinner (for them and then us) and relaxation time for everyone except me. I still needed to do my resistance band workout to try and get my shoulder stronger so that I can perhaps eventually stop having this shoulder discomfort/pain that I am having.
I am still looking forward to Mountain Swim Series starting on June 14th and I really need to get back into the pool for a little bit. I am considering combining my walk and pool time tomorrow by driving down to the rec center doing a 3.2 mile walk to meet my Garmin walking challenge for March and then swim for 20-30 minutes and then continue on with my day.
This afternoon we broke temperature records and it isn’t even Spring for another few days.
And I think that will be it on my computer today, I am trying to cut back on screen time before bedtime. Today was a good day, there was no reason to complain about anything. I was able to solve several problems, I was able to use past skills in my current position. I never thought I would use Visio again, and yet, I spent a few hours this evening re-learning Visio. The biggest change is that now it’s a web version rather than the desktop version I was always used to. I didn’t forget that much which is a good thing. So, not only am I grateful for the nice weather, my health, my ability to judge my own fitness, Jesse, Res, and Climber, I can be thankful for things I taught myself years ago that keep coming back in my current role.
Goodnight everyone and I will talk to you tomorrow.
What’s this? 80 degrees in Aurora, CO at 4:40pm MT in the afternoon? We are almost breaking records today. Started off this morning when I got up around 45 degrees. Has slowly increased all day.
I was able to take a nice 6.5 mile walk for my lunch break today, it was a perfect day for it as it, my little Prairie Dogs were out enjoying the nice weather and warming their bones.
These guys are brave, the do not care at all with anyone walking near them on the path. It’s sort of awesome to see, but makes you wonder also. They are all over along the Power Line trail.
Total distance: 6.64 mi Max elevation: 5639 ft Min elevation: 5499 ft Total climbing: 531 ft Total descent: -529 ft Average speed: 4.43 mi/h Average cadence: 59 Average heart rate: 121 Average temperature: Total time: 01:31:18
I am still not getting into the pool, this is concerning me a little bit as I am 12 weeks away from the Mountain Swim Series, but I do want to talk with my physical therapist at my Saturday appointment before I really push it with the shoulder. Right now I have a mild aching sensation, but I don’t want this to get painful again. I am working on my endurance and leg muscles with the walking I am doing, but my shoulder and upper body strength is a problem. Most of swimming is with upper body and my shoulders get a real workout.
I spent the rest of the day doing pricing research and answering questions from technicians on an upcoming release that is coming out soon. I will probably work a few hours this evening on tech support issues. I am finding something out that I knew, but have not really taken into account in recent years. Technicians do not read email anymore. They just don’t. If the email includes instructions they skim it but they do not actually read it. I am also finding out that text messaging is the quickest way to get someone’s attention. That seems to work every time. If I can’t get hold of them via text message they are not going to respond. Very few technicians deal with phone calls, and that sort of makes sense. It’s an interruption while they have their hands full. A text message they can usually answer fast while they are doing other things, but a phone call is distracting. Now, having said that, some of our older techs appreciate the phone call over email and text. All things to keep in mind when working with 3-4 different generations.
There are several things that I have gained skills on in the past that make my job easier: I can find just about anything on the internet because I know how the search engines work; my education in education allows me to provide training and coaching when possible, and also know when to give up; and over the years I have significantly grown in my ability to not react when pushed, twenty years ago I am not sure I could do the job I am doing now. These skills are all ones that I am thankful for.
This afternoon Res and Climber got some outside time.
Res loves being outside and Climber is learning to like the outside world. She is still a little “????? What’s that noise???? Nope, let’s go in!!!” And, I still can’t really let her and Res out at the same time because she tries to annoy him and get him to run, she is a little faster and can take turns much more sharply than he can. We worry about him getting hurt as he is just a little older, a little more uncoordinated, and a little slower to turn and stop than she is.
Also, Res is giving us a little problem with his food. We are not 100% sure what is going on, but I think he is going to need a check-up one of these days just to make sure nothing major is wrong. We honestly are not sure if he is having stomach issues, nothing bad is obvious going on (at the end of the cycle), or if he is just being picky. His teeth and gums look good, he eats the good stuff. We have never had a dog as picky as he is, and a male Greyhound as well normally is not that picky about food.
I spent some time this evening doing my resistance band workout that I am supposed to be doing every day. It’s supposed to take 15 to 20 minutes but it takes me longer because I can’t remember what some of the exercises are. But, every little bit is supposed to help. Today’s workout looks like;
And with that our day is basically over. I am going to sit here and read a little, and eventually call it an evening. Today was a positive day, nothing bad happened, just life, nothing to complain about. Goodnight all!
Had an early start for the day. Someone booked a 7:30am conference call (it’s OK, I try to work on Eastern Time and it was 9:30am at our offices). So, we got up at our normal weekday time and I let the dogs out, gave them their morning snacks, and then got myself online. Spent a few minutes just scanning my email and any messages that came in earlier in the morning. And then it was time for my call. Not bad, I had 3 items to go over, the others had 2-3 items, each and we were done in 30 minutes or so.
Spent a good portion of the morning re-testing an our app as some additional problems had been found in the testing process. That was fun. Yup, there is a problem and it is not new to this release. I didn’t even know it was an issue, sort of surprising that no one told me about it.
I was able to get out for a long walk today, but my shoulder is still bothering me overnight especially. I do not want to put more stress on it, but I have to figure out a way to get some more exercise in with to burn some additional calories. My weight is not going down. I am thinking about taking 30 minutes every morning before everyone is up and at it to do my resistance band workout. And then during my lunch break I can do my outdoor workout (or swim if my shoulder improves) and then I can maybe make some progress. I am going to start running out of time for the Mountain Swim Series on June 14th. But, as I talked with Jesse about today, and I will have a similar conversation with my Physical Therapist on Saturday morning for our appointment, I have to draw a line on further damaging that tendon that is rubbing on a bone spur in my shoulder.
Total distance: 5.09 mi Max elevation: 5684 ft Min elevation: 5562 ft Total climbing: 651 ft Total descent: -648 ft Average speed: 4.19 mi/h Average cadence: Average heart rate: 109 Average temperature: 25.9 Total time: 01:13:53
I digress, it was a good walk, and I made it about 2 miles through my 5 miles before someone called me to ask me questions about a boiler. If figures. And for this person I never not answer. Rest of walk was nice, the weather has come up to about 70 degrees today, big improvement from Sunday and Monday.
Late this afternoon we had asked the painters that did the interior of the house to come out and quote us on all the exterior trim work. We really want to get rid of the brown of the house and move to a burgundy for all of the trim that we have used in the past. It has looked great on houses in the past, it really looked good in Hartford and Willington. We did not do it in Florida as it just didn’t fit the house, but here in Aurora I think it will look really good. It is a little more money than I wanted to spend, but the alternative is Jesse and I spending a lot of time on ladders and we are both getting a little old for that. And, they are going to pressure wash the whole house as a part of this.
I did the walks this evening so we could stay on schedule and Jesse stayed with the estimator for the painters. The park was nice and snow free this evening. What a difference two days make.
Sunday 3/15/2026 ParkTuesday 3/17/2026 Park
We are still getting used to the Denver weather, the temperature swings are wild. Snow one day, gone the next. The dogs do not mind, Res will get some outdoor sunbathing time tomorrow.
So, today was a good positive day. Nothing to complain about, thankful for weather, Jesse, my health, and the dogs. Especially my office assistance Res, and then Climber who keeps me on my toes and will cuddle and play, I really need to take her outside for some ball time. And, while there is a little bit of a setback, and I am making some alternate plans just in case, I am planning for the Mountain Swim Series starting in June.
So, with that, the day is over and will say goodnight and see everyone tomorrow.
