End of Summer

I spent last week in Colorado seeing customers and attending the Colorado Mortgage Lenders Association. The conference was held, as always, in Vail.

It just so happens that PigBoy and his family were staying in Breckenridge and BoBo and his family were staying in Beaver Creek. Lang, was also out there to crew for some folks from Des Moines were doing the Leadville Trail 100 (Way to go Mables!). So we all met at the Pope's Bike Shop (Mountain Peddlers) and went for some lunch in Minturn. It is amazing how Pig's and BoBo's babies have grown!! It was good to see everyone - makes me realize how much I miss them.

As I got updates from Lang on Saturday on how everyone was doing at Leadville, it made me want to do Leadville a fourth time.....but not for long. The thought of the climb back up Power Line just scares me!

The kids all start School tomorrow. Patrick will be in 8th Grade at Fremont Jr. High. Mary will be in 5th Grade at Noah Webster Basic School and Elli will be in 2nd grade at Rancho Solano. Man it was a short summer (two months is all they get these days - have to have time for all those days off for in services days......). This fall will be busy - Patrick will be in Drama and will continue with his guitar and voice lessons. Mary will take dance, piano, go to the vision clinic and do an after school art program. Elli will continue with her piano lessons and will be starting gymnastics.

While the real estate market around the country continues to be a mess, Amy is as busy as ever. All her public speaking the past three years is paying off with agents reaching out to her to help their clients. She has also been on both the NBC and CBS affiliates recently talking about the recently passed Housing Bill. Now if we could only sell a few houses of ours.....

Work goes well for me. Just continue to grind it out in this very interesting market. It truly is a roller coaster ride. While I had a great July for fundings, my locks were off from my high in June. Though, July did finished on a positive note and August has started off well.

I am even getting a few rides in on the weeks I am home. I found some good mountain bike trails by our house that I can ride. I have also started to ride my mountain bike with a couple of guys from Church and have a couple of customers who I am going to do weekly rides with also.

Hope all is well. Be Safe!

PJ