A day on the "Front Range"

Well, we are on the front range as the locals call it and off the mountain on the flatland just east of the Rocky mountains. We are near Littleton, Colorado just southwest of Denver in a state park called Chatfield State Park. Very nice park with great facilities including electric, water and sewer at each campsite! They also have a laundry facility and pay showers. All this for $20 per night.

There is a huge reservior here that was developed by the Army Corp of Engineers to control the Platte River during the spring runoff season. In recent history and as late as the 1970's this river has caused major flooding in Denver that caused millions in damage and claimed 13 lives in the last episode.

We received news today from our builder up north in Michigan. First he told us they got 16 inches of snow in Suttons Bay yesterday. Next he told us that we finally have an address at our property. They have begun the permit pulling process and now we have an address. It will  be:
6607 S. Wheeler Road, Maple City, MI, 49664

Sound exciting? I can't wait to meet with them on April 11 to stake the homesite and mark where the driveway will be so the excavator can start to clear trees and grade the building site and dig the basement. We will finally be underway!!

Here are a few pictures from todays activities:

This is the "front range", the eastern edge of the Rockies.

Another view while on our bike ride this morning. Temps in the low forties this morning. It is spring here in the flatlands as opposed to the end of winter up at Vail on the mountain. That is the beginning of Chatfield Lake in the picture.

A fly fisherman on the Platte River. This river fills Chatfield Lake behind the dam.

I always get a kick out of the cheesy backdropos that photographers use in their portrait studios. But this stuff is real!!

The state park built this replica sod top cabin in the park along the bike trail. Very authentic!

Double click on the picture and look closely, those are cactus plants growing on the roof!

Magpies (or Mockingbirds), I always enjoy seeing these in the west.

Here is Camp Chatfield. Peace and love to all!