Hike

Well, we went on another hike – Greyrock. It’s close to Fort Collins, and a nice hike. About 7 miles round trip in a loop; loop to the mountain is a little over 3, loop back is just at 4. Not very tall – only 2000 feet elevation gain or something like that.

The last half mile before the summit is all rocky, and the trail is not easy to find. Parks & rec has signs at the trailhead warning everyone to be careful – 8 search & rescues on the mountain in 2003, and along the approach trail there’s a marker for a hiker lost and never found. So you need to be paying attention.

But even so, in that last half mile, the trail goes through sections where it just vanishes. So, in hiker fashion, the last half mile is dotted with little balanced rock cairns. I thought of Chris. You can sight your way from one rock pile to the next … some are pretty massive, some are just 4 rocks. I added a few rocks to some of them.

Family Tree

I am working on the tree again. I called Jean’s sister tonight and got some names and dates. We are going to talk again next week when she will have the old family Bible in hand and be able to give me, probably, verification on the older dates that i have, and hopefully, something new.

There is something about my tree that bothers me. Documentation. I have none for most of my information. Bill has collected pictures of many headstones which helps; I intend to attach those pictures to the tree. I also intend to ask various people who might have birth, marriage, and death certificates to make me copies. That will only document the most recent entries and there is little question of their accuracy, but i think it is a good idea to document what i can.

I would like you to copy anything of interest for me to attach to my tree. Birth, marriage, etc. I would also like to enter as much info as i can on the families of Christina and Kevin, particularly Christina. One of these days Aleah and her sibling might like to know more about “mom’s” family. It would be nice to have it all in one place. Much of the information i will be entering is so recent it will be of little interest now, or even next generation, but if we can round up birth certificates, etc, for grandparents now, that will be old enough to have real value in a few more years.

As to what information i am interested in, besides birth, marriage, and death, there are suggested topics like health, education, employment, land ownership, baptism, christening, and any information of general interest can be added. For example i just entered that the grandmother or great grandmother of someone who married one of Jean’s siblings was the first woman doctor in CO. We do not have the line leading to her, but if that line is found, the first doctor bit would be a conformation, and even if the line to her is not found it is interesting.

Garage Cleanup

In two days the garage has turned into a collection of boxes and buckets all over the floor into what you see here: boxes and buckets stacked up on shelves. This would not have happened as quickly without the timely help of a good friend, David, who was just passing through the area. We did at least feed him. And we’re trying to think of something else we can do that would be nice; maybe we’ll cook up some ribs, seal them, and send them his way. I hear they re-heat well.

Anyway, a few more things to take out of the garage and we’ll be able to actually park a car in here. (Imagine that… parking a car in our garage. We only had to live here for a year and half first.) There are a few dead computers and a few boxes of stuff that need to be pruned. We also need to figure out what to do with the abundance of chairs we have. Half of them are broken in some way; most of those we can fix, the others… not sure. They will probably end up broken up and in the trash. We also have a great washer/dryer sitting out there. I think we’re going to sell that for dirt cheap, just to get the space back.

Next step is going to be cleaning out stuff from the house. That’s going to be a long process and I’m not sure were any of it is going to go, being that our garage is already full.