Breck

I suggested lunch in Breckenridge, a local ski resort up in the mountains, on the spur of the moment this morning, since we were both up relatively early, and K took me up on it. We were actually out of the house by 10:30 which I think may be a new record for us these days, especially with the dog to deal with too. We got up there shortly after noon, and walked around a bit, before we found Salt Creek restaurant & saloon, with a shady deck that allowed dogs. Well, actually most of the places in Breck allow dogs, since it's a mountain town and that's typical there, but this place was off the main drag and quieter. Then we stopped at Dillon reservoir for a little while, to enjoy the quiet of the lake and surrounding forest. The whole trip took about eight hours. When we got home, the dog didn't want to leave the car - seems she'd had quite a fun time and didn't want it to end. So did we, but we were beat from our first all-day outing in awhile. We got home just in time to hustle over to our neighbors, who were having us over for a belated birthday celebration, which was originally supposed to have been the morning we were riding bikes, and I broke my collarbone, so it had been deferred awhile.

We slept in this morning. K and Mandy got up long enough to go outside for a minute, and now they're back sleeping in the reclining chair. The living room is pretty spartan these days, since K had the downstairs carpet cleaned, and all the furniture has been piled in the non-carpeted areas like the kitchen and dining room. We took advantage of the opportunity, to dispose of our big pink sectional sofa, and now the big black leather fold out couch is our main piece of furniture in that room. That leaves more room in the study to start trying to make it into an office some day.