Exploring the Places No One is Talking About
After exploring Downtown Golden we headed up to Lookout Mountain. On the top of the mountain is the final resting place of Buffalo Bill Cody and Museum. Buffalo Bill was buried here as his final wish. From what the nice volunteer at the visitor center in Golden told us, once Bill Cody passed away his
The prompt this last week was to select an image from a selection of interesting medieval manuscript art and write anything about it. I selected two separate images. The story for the first image is below. As always the only edits I have made are for spelling. Snails The original text said snakes but the
I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and got the chance to enjoy some delicious food. If you made any mistakes in the kitchen this week, don’t worry because you are not alone and we have all done it. Here is one of mine. I do want to point out that my normal pecan pie
Over the summer we had the opportunity to meet up with some of our family in Colorado for a little mini family reunion and birthday celebration. We got there a little earlier and spent some time exploring Golden, CO. Golden is about 20 minutes from Denver and has an adorable downtown area. Things to do
This was a fun prompt. Everyone selected a book and then rolled 3 10-sided die. Based on the number from the die, we flipped to that page number and after reading either the first line or the whole page we were to continue what we thought might happen. I selected the Necronomicon by H.P. Lovecraft
Halloween has passed and Thanksgiving is almost here but I had to share these photos. I’ve been wanting to do this forever with Bear and we had a ton of fun with it. Bear was such a good boy but once he was done, he was done. In his defense, it is HOT under that
I love finding random little, interesting stops in small towns while on road trips. On the way to and from Bent’s Old Fort, we drove through Coolidge, Kansas. In the original 1983 National Lampoon’s Vacation movie Cousin Eddie is from Coolidge, Kansas. Despite enjoying the Christmas Vacation movie, I have not watched the original film
We are a little past spooky season but I am a bit behind on my stories and I do love how this one turned out. Prompt: Cryptids and mythological creatures are now out in society and know to the humans. What are they doing now. If possible, try for a bit of rom-com. Crypid: [noun]
Last year I read and reviewed Those Were the Days. It is a memoir by an Aspen, CO of her time there in the 70’s. I also got the opportunity to interview her and it was wonderful. Her book, along with being filled with wonderful stories, has recipes from the restaurants that were there at
Keltin and I had the opportunity to visit a couple of historical sites over the summer. The first of which was Bent’s Old Fort outside of La Junta, CO. This was fun day trip out from his parent’s place in Southwestern Kansas. It is $10 for adults to visit and there are restrooms both at the
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