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Dirt Work, Office Stage 2, Florrissant Fossil Beds Visit 2, Church Picnic

We continued to work on Aaron's office. He wanted a mini fridge and a microwave so we got that at Wal-Mart. I am being the decorator for his office. HA HA. We are going for a Western theme. We bought a beautiful print of Pike's Peak by a local artist on Sunday. They had and art show at the fossil beds, so we went out again and saw that and bought a print for the office. It supported the fossil beds.

They did all of the dirt work end of last week and beginning of this week. They backfilled all the dirt in around the foundation. You can see in this picture that they ran into the corner of the garage and cracked it. They tried to reform it but did a really bad job. It has a major crack. The guys who tried to fix it were the guys that broke it with the skidster, not the builders, so Aaron wrote to them and they came out and checked it today. They said we will have to reform that corner. I think it can be done but they need to talk to the engineer about it so pretty significant crack.







I also decided that I wanted to plan a chrysanthemum  bed for fall. I keep thinking that I am going to wake up and find the deer have had a delicious snack but not so far. We will see how it winters.


These are pics from Sunday. The church we've been going to had a meeting out at a camp that was super close to our house. They did a church service and then had a picnic after. Lots of yummy sides at the picnic.
The girls had fun at the playground. I put up all the pics of them playing tetherball because they are just funny.






After we got done there we went out to the fossil beds for the art show I mentioned above. Plus it was free admission since it was the 100th anniversary of the National Park System.
We went on a walk with a ranger and saw some things we hadn't seen before. I thought this Ponderosa growing out of a petrified stump was neat.

We also found out that you could drive to look at the old volcanic field that caused the mudflow which petrified all the redwood trees however many years ago you want to call it. This was in southwest Teller county. We'd never been down that way. Really beautiful.




There is a stream you can hike down to and wade or swim but we didn't do that this time.

The girls enjoyed climbing on the rocks.

It was a really fun Sunday. Really reminded us of why we moved here.

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bee said…
Such awesome experiences. I love that your girls hike and enjoy outside. Maddy is especially amazing. So much grit and determination.
August 29, 2016 at 10:38 PM
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