Back in Denver

Zac my nephew left for Tulsa this morning around 9 am. Mark and I cleaned the cabin and heading back to Denver around 9:45 am. It was snowing around the cabin when we left however it was only cloudy by the time we got to Breckenridge. The trip home was uneventful. In Colorado we keep our Holiday decorations up until after the stock show. This ended before we went skiing yet we did not have time to take things down before we left for the week of skiing. We started taking things down as soon as we got home. Mark's nephew Nathanial is 14 years old and growing very quickly now. He is 5' 11" although he looks as tall as Mark at 6 foot. He is now the concert master for the Denver Area Youth Orchestra. We went to their performance this afternoon. They were playing music from several operas that highlighted the woodwinds and brass. I thought the conductor did the young performers a disservice by trying to keep the woodwinds and brass too quiet. Nathanial is quite talented. His tux barely fits him since his last performance and certainly will not by their next performance in April. Mark's sister Barb, her husband Jeff, his nephew Andrew, Mother and Father were there also. Afterwards was a shopping trip to Costco and King Soopers for groceries for the week. My men's group is coming over tomorrow night for a pot luck and I am entering a Chili contest at work on Wednesday. So I had to get the right ingredients for our meals. I am making a Roasted Chipotle Turkey Chili for the contest. All our decorations are in the carriage house now. What a relief! Back to work in the morning.