Circle R Motel

It's just mid August, but I can see some cottonwood trees with yellow leaves.  A friend in northern California sees dead leaves on her patio.  Two totally different summers.  Ours was wet and ...

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Gosh, it's been ages since I posted on my blog.  I often don't know what to write about.  Last weekend, Lee and I went ATVing.  I'm always amazed we can be at a ATV spot in less than 15 minute...

http://circlermotel.blogspot.com/2014/06/gosh-its-been-ages-since-i-posted-on-my.html

I love watching the Olympics from the comfort of my home here in Salida, Colorado.  In the winter my favorite sport is ice skating and in the summer time it is gynastics.  Recently, we took...

http://circlermotel.blogspot.com/2014/02/getting-to-watch-olympics.html

The weather here in southern Colorado is unseasonably warm.  Today it is supposed to be 55.  I need to get outside and water my garden and the Aspen trees.  The Aspens love water.  The grass ...

http://circlermotel.blogspot.com/2014/01/sunshine-and-fly-fishing.html

Spent the evening watching a new show I discovered "Call the Midwife" which is a t.v. show on PBS from England.  It's excellent.  Almost as good as Downton Abby, which begins again tonight.  ...

http://circlermotel.blogspot.com/2014/01/sunday-january-6-2014.html

It's 9pm on Friday night.  It's quiet except for the wind blowing outside.  It reminds me of the movie Mary Poppins - you know, when the wind blew her in with her umbrella and carpet bag.  I s...

http://circlermotel.blogspot.com/2014/01/a-new-year.html

It's been a long time since I wrote on my blog.  It's just that not much is going on.  I went to California for vacation.  Everything in California is green.  It's hard to come back to Colora...

http://circlermotel.blogspot.com/2013/05/painting-motel-neon-sign-in-may-2013.html

Recently I drove to Denver. There was fresh snow on the mountains surrounding Salida. Beautiful.  These 14,000 foot mountains are in Chaffee county.  When the snow eventually melts, it will br...

http://circlermotel.blogspot.com/2013/03/sandhill-crane-video-and-snow-in.html

Yesterday we went to to lunch at the Country Bounty restaurant.  http://www.thecountrybounty.com/   I love the Country Bounty mostly because they make their own fabulous desserts.  And, they ...

http://circlermotel.blogspot.com/2013/02/remodeled-bathroom-at-circle-r-motel.html

Monarch ski area http://skimonarch.com/  has new snow.  It's about 13 inches in the last two days.  That means that besides skiing and snowboard, there will be new snow for snowmobiling http:/...

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Went on a tour of the aquatics center and hot springs pool. There is a lap pool which is kept in the upper 80 degrees and a leisure pool kept in the upper 90 degrees. The photo of the outside o...

http://circlermotel.blogspot.com/2013/01/chaffee-shuttle-and-salida-hot-springs.html

Welcome 2013.  It's still rather dry here in Chaffee county.  Monarch ski area http://skimonarch.com/   seems to have enough snow for the snowboarders and the skiers however.  My daughter tel...

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Today is December 23.  Sunday.  Where has the year gone?  We have some snow on the ground outside and it looks like it is snowing at Monarch.  Great day for snowboarding or skiing.   Win...

http://circlermotel.blogspot.com/2012/12/end-of-2012.html

It's been a week since Thanksgiving and I wanted to post our photos before now, but I've been busy with this and that.  My daughter came for Thanksgiving but now that she is working, she can't...

http://circlermotel.blogspot.com/2012/11/thanksgiving-in-salida.html

It's the day before Thanksgiving and we are still waiting on winter.  I guess it doesn't officially arrive until December 21.  Went for a walk yesterday in my capris.  No gloves and no hat.  ...

http://circlermotel.blogspot.com/2012/11/waiting-on-winter.html

My daughter is in town this weekend.  When she is here we go to the shops in downtown Salida and see what's new or what we can't live without.  The first stop was to Murdoch's Home and Ranch wh...

http://circlermotel.blogspot.com/2012/11/my-daughter-is-in-town-this-weekend.html

Saturday night and I'm tired.  It's been a busy weekend at the Circle R Motel.  Just three weeks until Monarch Ski Resort is supposed to open, but its still in the 60s.  I'm not ready for wint...

http://circlermotel.blogspot.com/2012/11/moving-into-november.html

As the busy days of summer turn to the slower days of fall, I have been doing some more sewing and working on my quilting. In between I've been ATVing.   But, here are a few photos of quilting p...

http://circlermotel.blogspot.com/2012/10/quilting-at-circle-r-motel.html

It's been an amazing fall in Chaffee County and Salida.  Still warm.  We have had Arkansas River fly fishermen visit, adventure riders on their dirt bikes, and hunters of course.  The river is...

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Another beautiful summer/fall day.  It's in the low 40s in the morning and then about 75 during the day.  We have harvested about six minature corn cobs out of the garden.  Still plenty of gre...

http://circlermotel.blogspot.com/2012/09/another-beautiful-summerfall-day.html

It's raining outside right now.  Puts a bit of a damper on my plans to walk this morning.  However, it also means I don't have to water today so that's good.  Plus it smells so darn good outsi...

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Mornings are getting cooler.  Get away from the city and come to the mountains for the weekend.  There's a bicycle race in town.  Hiking and biking abound.  Good food. 

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Trying to figure out this google + and my blog...  They are not the same thing.  This social media stuff is very confusing for a "baby boomer" mind.  And my recent college graduate is not able...

http://circlermotel.blogspot.com/2012/07/google-and-blogging-is-confusing-me.html

The fire in Colorado Springs is pretty scary, but its two hours from Salida and we are not affected.  Don't let that change your vacation plans or if your plans were for Colorado Springs, then c...

http://circlermotel.blogspot.com/2012/06/fire-in-colorado-springs-is-pretty.html

I was just reading Martha Stewart's blog and she said that a group of crows is called a "murder".   I saw quite a large gathering of them today as I was taking my three mile walk on the bike t...

http://circlermotel.blogspot.com/2012/01/tuesday-evening.html