hard work

Kalin and I spent the last weekend up in Grand Lake, CO.  It was more of a work weekend but also mixed with some general relaxing.  My parents are in the process of building a log cabin up in the forest and in order to make any progress, trees have to come down and clear out.  Unfortunately most of these trees are already dead thanks to a beetle.  A little beetle.  The whole drive up to the Rockies, you can see beautiful green trees plus a whole lot of purple/orangish trees taking over.  From afar, it's kinda pretty, but up close, these beetles do some incredible damage.  The trees they infect are very sickly and the only way to stop these guys is to either spray your healthy trees or hope that mother nature dips into extremely low temps to kill their larvae (this hasn't been the case in the last few winters).  The beetles are thriving and the forest will have to wait until the infected trees just fall over.  The forest will look very different within a decade.

Anyways...Kalin and I cleared out two areas (one for electrical and one for sewer).  I'm typically good for the first hour to hour and a half of work...and then I'm done or need to seriously motivate myself to just move one more log or scraps.  Kalin, on the other hand, perseveres and is still encourages me when I'm ready to give up.  In the end, with plenty of water breaks, we successfully cleared our paths and headed back to Golden.  We made a stop in Idaho Springs to eat mountain pizza pies at BeauJo's Pizza.  It was a good impromptu trip and I imagine we'll be back up helping with other jobs.  I'm sure there will always be more logs to move!  

In other news, we're still on the job hunt........

But!  We are helping out our good family friends, Rick and Lynn, with their property management company as they move out and in students at CU this weekend. 

So, we're working...just here and there and searching for jobs inbetween.