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Just moved to a little town outside Colorado Springs called monument. We live in a 2 year old home in a little subdivision but the views are nice. Here is a pic from the front yard and one out the back door. We are pretty close to Pikes Peak.
Tex
One more just for fun. We went driving around yesterday and you can't see real clear but this was a small herd of Rocky Mountain bighorn sheep right beside the road. You used to hardly ever see these things and we saw like 5 herds of them along the highway yesterday. I guess cause it was a so warm?
Tex
Those houses are gigantic D:
McBain
26 Nov 2004, 9:17pm
Nice place ya got there tex.....how far is it from Denver(reverence point and all)
Our house is actually much bigger here then the one we had in Dallas on the lake. They don't look big but they all have finished basements. Our house here is two story with a finished basement also. So its a 4 bedroom 3 bath counting the bedroom and den in the basement its like just under 3000sf counting all three floors which isnt huge but its just me and Robin and the two huge dogs also. (grin) We used the whole basement as office area for Robin and I. She took the bedroom and I took the den downstairs for offices and I still don't have enough room and she is squeeling because I have stuff in her office closet too. (grin) Oh well.. First come first served I say. She worked on the upstairs and I laid claim to the office space.
Tex
Nice place ya got there tex.....how far is it from Denver(reverence point and all)
To the bottom edge of Denver is like 35 miles. Like 50 to the center. but we mostly head west out 70 from denver heading for Robins folks house near aspen where I lived before so we cut under Denver on 470 from I-25 and never have to hit through Denver unless we go to the airport. Pueblo is about 50 to 60 miles to the south and Denver is north of us.
I'm just glad to be back to the mountains. God did I ever miss those mountains in Texas.
Funny we have two huge dogs. A Great Pyrenees and a Newfoundland. The big Pyrenees would love to live outside in the snow. He lays in the snow and just goes to sleep. He would stay out all day if we let him. The female Newfy goes outside for 5 minutes and then she is through and she wants her bed pulled a little closer to the fireplace so she can nap some more. As opposite as night and day. I'm surprised.
tex
Kwitko
26 Nov 2004, 10:22pm
*sigh* I miss Colorado. I spent many winters in Aspen/Snowmass and Colorado Springs, plus I went to school at CU - Boulder. What an amazing place.
Tex, enjoy it to the fullest. I just might have to come visit you for a beer now. :)
congratulations and good luck in your new home :thumbsup:
LIN
*sigh* I miss Colorado. I spent many winters in Aspen/Snowmass and Colorado Springs, plus I went to school at CU - Boulder. What an amazing place.
Tex, enjoy it to the fullest. I just might have to come visit you for a beer now. :)
I lived up the frying pan river outside basalt. In a miners cabin built in the 1800's and heated with a wood stove when I moved up there originaly. Then in a wild house built by an artist up on Missouri Flats outside Carbondale and finally 40 acres with a quarter mile of stream frontage and the last house on the left before you got to Ski Sunlight outside Glenwood Springs. Saw Fleetwood Mac in a club in aspen one new years eve. Aspen was a great place to be young and partying when you were young. Plane loads of girls wanting to party landing every 30 minutes all winter long...
Robin is three generations from the Aspen Valley. She was going to CSU at Ft. Collins when she came to work for me at the end of one summer. She said she learned more in three weeks working for me then she had in three years of college. So she stayed on for another 6 months on a internship working for me in Glenwood writing custom programs for one of my customers. She was 19 and I was 36. I left for Dallas when my ex-wife left with my daughter and Robin decidied to come with me. We havent been apart more then a night or two in the last 13 years.
I found my soul mate late in life. I can't imagine spending my life with anyone else. She is awesome.
tex
P.S. I found good hot mexican food tonight. And you can count on me to have the beer ice cold. your welcome anytime
mmonnin
27 Nov 2004, 4:51am
Wow nice views!! Looks awesome!
Wow nice views!! Looks awesome!
I sit in the front yard with the big dog at dawn and just watch the sun come up. It's so awesome to be back. I love Texas and I'll always be a Texan and proud of it but.. Gawd the mountains are just so spectacular.
Tex
dragonV8
27 Nov 2004, 7:55am
Beautiful house, spectacular views. Great stuff Tex & Robin. :thumbsup:
Awesome Tex!!! I know where I'm going if I'm ever down that way.
Thrax
27 Nov 2004, 10:39am
You know.. I may love my computers, asphalt, cable TV, bustling downtown, 11+ story buildings, fiber optics, industrialism, trendiness, coffee shops, cafes, and restaurants.. But there's a certain charm that a mountain range has that makes me.. Pause for a moment.
That's a special place you've got there, Tex. Best wishes to you and Robin in your new home. :)
You know.. I may love my computers, asphalt, cable TV, bustling downtown, 11+ story buildings, fiber optics, industrialism, trendiness, coffee shops, cafes, and restaurants.. But there's a certain charm that a mountain range has that makes me.. Pause for a moment.
That's a special place you've got there, Tex. Best wishes to you and Robin in your new home. :)
Thrax: Springs has a huge Oracle shop. Seems a lot of high tech firms have settled here. This is where the air force academy is located. The feel has more of a young high tech feel to it as a town. They got all the cool cafes, shops, restaurants, I could want. I'm minutes away from a nice new shopping mall etc... It's really the best of both worlds. I still have my puters and 3mb cable internet etc... (grin) H*ll if I need a bigger city for work I can drive to Denver in 30 minutes ....
The only thing I miss at all is no Fry's Electronics even in Denver. (LOL)
Oh well if ya gotta lose one thing.... I guess Fry's wasnt so bad huh?
I know what you mean about the city being well lets just call it "exciting". But I've really loved Col. Springs so far. I have to always balance work/job/play stuff. I hunt and fish and have lots of time off to mess around and just enjoy life.
Tex
Awesome Tex!!! I know where I'm going if I'm ever down that way.
I'll have cold beer in the fridge and if you let me know your coming I'll have steaks on the grill when you ring the doorbell dude.
Your welcome anytime.
Tex
Shorty
27 Nov 2004, 12:42pm
I'll have cold beer in the fridge and if you let me know your coming I'll have steaks on the grill when you ring the doorbell dude.
Your welcome anytime.
Tex
Once I've moved and settled properly, I shall be flying to Detriot. Better make it a round trip :D
Stunning place Tex, stunning. That's gotta be one hell of a nice view to wake up to...
... and the view out the window too ;D
Thrax
27 Nov 2004, 12:44pm
Once I've moved and settled properly, I shall be flying to Detriot. Better make it a round trip :D
Must not get hopes up. Must not get hopes up. Must not get hopes up.
/me chants to himself.
Kwitko
27 Nov 2004, 4:18pm
Sorry, Tex, I meant I spent winters in Steamboat Springs, not Colorado Springs. But I have been to the AF Academy a bunch of times. And, of course, no trip to CO is complete without a tour of the Coors factory!
Sorry, Tex, I meant I spent winters in Steamboat Springs, not Colorado Springs. But I have been to the AF Academy a bunch of times. And, of course, no trip to CO is complete without a tour of the Coors factory!
This is the first time I've lived on the front range. All those other houses were Western Slope. All from the valley leading into aspen from Glenwood. Most the year there is just one road into Aspen and it ends in Aspen. I think it was highway 82. They used to joke there was more DWI's in the couple miles heading out of Aspen as so many partied in Aspen and had that one road to leave Aspen and head home so the cops sat every night on the edge of town just waiting. Aspen has grown up but its still unusual. (grin) That was a huge hippie town in the early 70's. When I was there in the late 80's if a resident of the valley was say uhhhhh.... caught with a small amount of pot in Aspen... you got a ticket. Basicaly like a parking ticket. Mailed in a small fine etc.. No court no probation etc....The cop police might scold ya. He probably knew ya by name and he would say not to get so damn drunk on the street that you dropped your bag of pot out of your pants in front of ten tourists etc...Sorta like Andy Griffith and barney Fife in the snow.
Its grownup a lot but its still a funny town. Constant tug of war between the rich and the regular folks who lived in Aspen for 30 years and didnt want it to change. In the early 70's you could buy a big Victorian on the main street of Aspen for 60,000 bucks. Now a two bedroom condo is $300,000 and no one that used to live there and just loved aspen for what it was can afford to live there and they are forced to live farther and farther up valley. Its almost solid buisness and crap from basalt all the way to Glenwood now.
Tex
Once I've moved and settled properly, I shall be flying to Detriot. Better make it a round trip :D
Stunning place Tex, stunning. That's gotta be one hell of a nice view to wake up to...
... and the view out the window too ;D
Detroit is welll uhhhhh... lets just say Thrax and Prime are probably two of the nicer sites in detroit. Its not one of the prettier cities I had the pleasure to work in. I didnt work in a nice area but I stayed in nice areas as I worked a lot for the Boy Scouts detroit office and man its in like slums. Near wayne state college I think it was. I remember attending a lot of Tigers games and you would drive around and we would go into cool sports bars and stuff and they looked like dives from the outside. I mean rough looking ! Its the only time I have ever went into a Burger King where it was like a bank. Bullet proof glass between the you and the guy taking your order INSIDE and they put your sack into a tray that went down and over to you like a bank outside basicaly. They had some neat restaaurants in a greek part of town if I remeber right.
Bring your sweetheart and fly into denver for a couple days and we will pick you guys up and take ya for a couple days partying in the mountains after you escape from detroit. (grin)
Tex
MediaMan
27 Nov 2004, 6:50pm
I'm mighty envious of all that square footage but I must agree on the view. I always have to have green space around me and I don't think I could go back to living in a mountainless city.
Is Robin running around cursing at boxes piled up everywhere or is she like a kid in a candy store setting up house? Has she started hinting at new appliances? :)
I'm mighty envious of all that square footage but I must agree on the view. I always have to have green space around me and I don't think I could go back to living in a mountainless city.
Is Robin running around cursing at boxes piled up everywhere or is she like a kid in a candy store setting up house? Has she started hinting at new appliances? :)
Actually Robin is the one with a job right now so my job is to get stuff put up and setup so she can focus on making money. If she gets up and can just focus on working till noon or one and then take off to go mess around we will do great. I mean when you work from the house and don't have to get all dressed up for work and do her hair and crap like she used to its not hard to knock out four or five hours of work by noon. She makes like 70 bucks an hour so if she can just grunt out 4 or 5 hours in the morning she can take off and shop or whatever all afternoon. We tend to currently be sampling the restaurants and bars right now and start messing around and partying around noon or so. Crap the bars here all have TWO happy hours. One like 3-7 and one from 10 to closing so concentrating on work has been tougher then expected. (grin)
And our female Newfoundland is supposed to have puppies in a couple weeks to top it all off.
tex
Since you moved to Colorado, can I be Tex now?
You can be Col.
McBain
28 Nov 2004, 4:44pm
Detroit is welll uhhhhh... lets just say Thrax and Prime are probably two of the nicer sites in detroit. Its not one of the prettier cities I had the pleasure to work in. I didnt work in a nice area but I stayed in nice areas as I worked a lot for the Boy Scouts detroit office and man its in like slums. Near wayne state college I think it was. I remember attending a lot of Tigers games and you would drive around and we would go into cool sports bars and stuff and they looked like dives from the outside. I mean rough looking ! Its the only time I have ever went into a Burger King where it was like a bank. Bullet proof glass between the you and the guy taking your order INSIDE and they put your sack into a tray that went down and over to you like a bank outside basicaly. They had some neat restaaurants in a greek part of town if I remeber right.
Ya know....I've grown up in Dearborn which is essentially detroits armpit, and I've spent a ton of time in the city. I guess you learn where to go and where not to go....but the bullet proof stuff, yeah, thats pretty common, I guess ya just get used to it. Greektown is a cool place, great fun/food.
There are lot of little quirks that all big cities have, that people adjust to and learn to love. I mean, I personally would hate not living 2 minutes from Detroit...there is so much that goes on in the city that it would just be a huge hassle to drive 30-45 min. to get there. I'm not going to sugarcoat things, its the 2nd most dangerous city to in the US(some dumpy NJ city is 1st now), but if you know what you're doing, you can have a blast in Detroit.
Black Hawk
28 Nov 2004, 6:11pm
Well the two times I went there (detroit) were pretty good but that could be cause I only entered the actual city once (I think) ;D
You got to go to real inner Detroit only WITH SOMEONE that knows the area. We went to lunch at places that looked like old boarded up buildings literaly and once you got inside they were awesome sports bars and crap. But I would of never EVER stopped if I had a rent-a-car looking for lunch. As I said... I knew some GREAT people and had a GAS in Detroit. But I also some saw a bunch of UGLY nasty areas. We actually had guys run out in front of us leaving the Scouts office at 9:00 at night and they exchanged 9mm pistol shots in the road in front of us. We had to stop the car as one guy was shot in the road 15 feet from our car. In fact he stumbled and bled on our car.
Huge graphiti (durring pres Reagan's term) on buildings... THE COPS KILLED APPLEJACK ! SCREW RAYGUN!
No I'm not joking....
Also.... They had some AWESOME tiitty bars (and jasons was just across the river) but thats a story for another thread.
Tex
Since you moved to Colorado, can I be Tex now?
You can be Col.
No I been Tex for almost 20 years. Thats really honest to god what 80 percent of the people I know call me. Most don't even know my real name.
Sorry.
McBain
29 Nov 2004, 1:48am
Yeah, don't wanna rain on your new Colorado parade or anything....but you've pretty much hit the nail on the head with the latest description of detroit.
Anywho, I got a buddy that lives about an hour from you and have been plannning to roadtrip out to see him and hit go on to vegas sometime in May. Might stop by and see the man, the myth, the legend.
Yeah, don't wanna rain on your new Colorado parade or anything....but you've pretty much hit the nail on the head with the latest description of detroit.
Anywho, I got a buddy that lives about an hour from you and have been plannning to roadtrip out to see him and hit go on to vegas sometime in May. Might stop by and see the man, the myth, the legend.
Where is he at? Sh*t I'll kick your butt if you don't swing by here on the way.
Tex
McBain
29 Nov 2004, 6:04am
He's about 10 minutes north of Denver, a place called Broomfield. Its just west and south of Ft. Collins I think.
And yes....when I go out there...there is NO WAY I'm not stoppin by.
Beer and steak. McBain's in heaven.
McBain
29 Nov 2004, 7:12am
Toss in titties and I am never leaving.
No I been Tex for almost 20 years. Thats really honest to god what 80 percent of the people I know call me. Most don't even know my real name.
Sorry.
Umm... you knew I was kidding right?
;D
Umm... you knew I was kidding right?
;D
Yep
LawnMM
30 Nov 2004, 9:14pm
<--Highlands Ranch
Yer probably less than an hours drive now Tex
primesuspect
30 Nov 2004, 9:27pm
Blackhawk, you've been to Comidas Criollas, that was in a pretty rough neighborhood :D
<--Highlands Ranch
Yer probably less than an hours drive now Tex
What is highlands ranch?
Tex
Blackhawk, you've been to Comidas Criollas, that was in a pretty rough neighborhood :D
Everything is relative cause some of the worst places I ever saw working outside Detroit were in San Juan PR. and I think he is from that area prime.
tex
S_Wilson
1 Dec 2004, 8:47am
What is highlands ranch?
Tex
Suburb of Denver.
Nice home, awesome views! :thumbsup:
LawnMM
2 Dec 2004, 12:30am
Suburb of Denver.
Nice home, awesome views! :thumbsup:
What he said.
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