Here is the laundry room on the way out to the garage, the guest room and our bed room. It is a little hard to show the bedroom without a wide angle lens on the digital camera. That is all of the key rooms, hope it give some perspective of our home layout and what it will look like to those who might come to visit.

These three are all taken from the center of the great room. The fireplace is in the center of the west wall, dining area to the north end and the kitchen is to the east side. We are really enjoying the glass front cabinets for Judy to display her good china at the south end of the kitchen.

Our good friend Mary Nelson asked to see some of the inside of our new home so for Mary we will post some pictures taken today. The first two show the bottles that we got at Hobby Lobby that replaced our holiday snowmen that have been enjoying some featured decor spots in the family great room. The third is of the great room from the front door entrance.

Rocky Mountain High - Colorado - Today we drove up to Echo Lake at the entrance to Mt Evans and trooped about the lake on our snowshoes. As you can see it was a beautiful Colorado day with lots of blue skies and a crisp 40 degrees or so. The lake is at about 8,500 feet in altitude so we did not set any speed records in our trek. It was a perfect Saturday after a very busy week. We live in a beautiful part of the world.

Strode and Judy enjoyed a very nice weekend with good friends Pat and Charlotte Madden from Arizona! We managed to get in some Mexican Train, lots of football watching and , of course, we didn't miss a meal! The purpose for the Maddens trip was to spend time with a dear friend from Flagstaff who is receiving Hospice care. We were so pleased to be able to provide a place for Charlotte and Pat to sleep, eat and relax. We were able to catch up with all of their doings. We will look forward to seeing them again during the Super Bowl weekend in Phoenix. We are so blessed to have such good friends. They headed out very EARLY this morning hoping to stay ahead of the snow storm that is expected in northern Arizona later today.

This has been a great couple of weeks for the "Units". We are continuing to enjoy our new home. There is lots of construction going on around us, which is good! We hope that by this summer most of the lots around us are filled in with homes. It is noisy and messy, but will be worth it to have the neighborhood complete. One of the highlights for Strode this month was a very brief sighting of his brother Tony and lovely wife Sally. They came breezing through on their way to the slopes for some great skiing! They were packed for the cold and snow. Tony and Sally stopped by the house for a quick bite of lunch and a quick tour of our new house. Strode was glad for the visit--even though it was brief!