Monthly Archives: June 2010

Greeley Bike to Work Day 2010

I love Bike to Work Day. I think it is one of the best events. It encourages alternative transportation to get us out of our cars and other oil-powered vehicles, it is a fun exercise, and it connects your work life with your personal life. In the Greeley area, on a warm Wednesday in June there are a variety of breakfast stations set up all around town. You can go to one, or all of them.

Flyer of Locations

Britton and I live on the outskirts of town a little bit, so there were no stations on my way to work. So I arranged with one of my co-workers to meet up at the downtown one. It is about 2-3 miles from home, so not too bad. We had free bagels from Einstein’s Bagels and coffee, grabbed a free frisbee and were on our way to work.

With some co-workers who rode today

Britton would have liked riding to work, but since he works in Longmont, it’s a much harder ride (45 miles) with a freeway in between! I do need to start riding to work more since I only live about 2 miles away. The summer that we had really high gas prices, I was riding about 4 times a week! Price really does influence people’s behavior!

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Father’s Day and Glenmere Park

Our niece and nephew wanted to hang out a little bit this weekend, so we decided to make a whole day of hanging out with family. The kids, my dad and family, and Britton’s dad and family for Father’s Day fun.

At Glenmere Park in Greeley

We thought we might go swimming since the forecast said it would be 92 degrees. It was a lot cloudier and cooler out than that, so we decided to just hang out instead. We picked the kids up and then went to a small tortilleria shop (La Espiga Dorada) for some barbacoa. We even taught Dawson how to ask for the food: “Dos paquetes de barbacoa”. Barbacoa is basically some shredded beef, cilantro, limes, onions, fresh salsa and freshly made tortillas -either corn or flour. It was really good.

We stopped by our house and played with the chickens, weeded and hung out for a bit before we brought the barbacoa over to my parent’s house and visited with Dad.

Then because we weren’t going swimming we decided to go down to Glenmere Park. I think we’ve written about it before, but Glenmere Park is one of our favorite Greeley parks. It has a lake, some side ponds and streams, lots of trees, a gazebo, a pier, and all sorts of pond life like ducks, geese, lily pads and cat tails.

Look how sweet these goslings are!

Our nephew Dawson was getting a little rowdy with his sister, so Britton warned him that if he didn’t knock it off he was going in the lake. Dawson just laughed and did it some more. So Britton grabbed him and put him in the lake! It was so funny. His shoes were squishing water out everywhere. But once he was wet, all he wanted to do was get back in! So much for teaching him a lesson -lol.

Swamp Monster

Then we decided to walk all the way over to Britton’s parents’ house (about 1 1/2 miles). We were still stuffed from barbacoa, but managed to eat a little more BBQ there. It was a fun day. Kids always make you see the world in such a different and refreshing way. Of course they can wear you out too! 🙂

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Everything Fits in a Honda Civic

I’ve used the Civic for lots of things. Building fences, remodeling houses, putting in sprinkler systems and now hauling rocks. (Thanks to Pioneer Sand and Gravel company for being so cool about it -they only charged us a tiny fee ($5) for all these rocks!) The Honda looked like a low rider with about 400 lbs of rocks! I’m always amazed at what I can fit in this thing! We’ve moved trees including our peach tree even (sticking out the sunroof).

Lots of rocks

As I was driving home I noticed I am not the only one that tries to use their car for doing everything. This car has their carpet strapped to their car. It made me laugh how its stuffed into the rear spoiler.

Behind someone in traffic

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Poudre River Flood

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They have some roads closed off on the north side of town. The Poudre River is over its banks in areas due to the melting snow in the mountains and recent rain. The trail is only a few miles away so Cassie and I figured we would jump on our bikes and see if we could get into trouble.

East meets west, but the road is Closed.

We actually didn’t encounter too much resistance to jump the signs and get a closer look. This is a small ditch, and it took out the trail completely.

Like I said, it used to be a small ditch.

You can see where its widening out

There are all kinds of news reports going on talking about the flooding. Its only a few miles from our house too! But all is dry here, so all in all a nice night to lay in the grass and watch the chickens and pets in the lawn.

Writing this post for LifeTransPlanet in the yard!

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