Team Velveeta™

  All is well. Changes have been falling steadily this fall. New season, inbound and outbound farm animals, and overall smooth sailing have been the flavor of the season for me and my crew....

http://teamvelveeta.tom-purvis.com/2023/11/blue-skies-and-tailwinds.html

My dad died this morning. Dr. George Purvis was born March 30, 1933 at home in an uninsulated farmhouse in rural Bent County Colorado. This part of Colorado along with parts of Kansas, Okl...

http://teamvelveeta.tom-purvis.com/2023/09/my-dad.html

  Aight, shit's getting real with this little scooter. Getting parts is a bit of a bitch with these guys. I was trying to find heavier coil springs for the crappy stock rear shock and was s...

http://teamvelveeta.tom-purvis.com/2023/09/a-red-fork.html

 Here it is, a full 30 days since I announced my toy. Well it came! And I put it together! It wasn't too exciting at first. Not too powerful, not too fast. Then after googling all over the inter...

http://teamvelveeta.tom-purvis.com/2023/08/toy-update.html

My life since I moved to the country and got livestock has been pretty boring. Enriching for me, but boring for others. This blog for example; the more of my current state of being and activit...

http://teamvelveeta.tom-purvis.com/2023/07/new-toy-on-way.html

 I got another load of wood! It was awesome. In ways. This place I'm gathering is not Forest Service, it's in a subdivision called Trail West above Buena Vista (which I pronounce "Bee Vee")....

http://teamvelveeta.tom-purvis.com/2023/07/a-day-in-woods.html

  After a wet May and a mild June, July brought the heat. Not news to any of us really, because it's been on the news.  So far it's stayed at or below the low 90's here at Casa Cabras Pe...

http://teamvelveeta.tom-purvis.com/2023/07/heat.html

There are some big doozy problems in the world nowadays. Global Warming is the likely winner among existential disasters coming down the pike to kill and destroy. I know, some readers will ...

http://teamvelveeta.tom-purvis.com/2023/07/problems-for-young-people-to-solve.html

  VAPOR TRAIL 125 RIDE BREAKDOWN A little break from what the New & Improved Teamvelveeta blog. Just gonna publish this. I wrote it back when I was still a bike rider and a manager within ...

http://teamvelveeta.tom-purvis.com/2023/06/a-little-vt125-beta.html

I burn wood in a stove for heat in the cold months. The economics of wood-burning require that the burner get the fuel for a minimum of cost, in either money or time and effort. It takes effo...

http://teamvelveeta.tom-purvis.com/2023/06/firewood.html

Fred came to live with Vicki and I (and cats, goats, steers) in January of 2022. In the last post, I described his genetics, but specifically he's half Great Pyrenes, 23.3% Australian Shepher...

http://teamvelveeta.tom-purvis.com/2023/06/fred.html

  I live about 25 miles east of Salida now, on a 3.3 acre place. I'm on Cottonwood Creek, and my eastern property line is the middle of the creek. This is facing west, with a nice view of t...

http://teamvelveeta.tom-purvis.com/2023/06/my-home.html

The last time I posted to this blog was July 6, 2018. Since then things have happened. Things have changed. That's how it goes. Things do change. As an old-adjacent person, I find that they h...

http://teamvelveeta.tom-purvis.com/2023/05/well-here-we-are.html

A Google definition: IMPERMANENCE, ALSO CALLED ANICCA OR ANITYA, IS ONE OF THE ESSENTIAL DOCTRINES AND A PART OF THREE MARKS OF EXISTENCE IN BUDDHISM. THE DOCTRINE ASSERTS THAT ALL OF CONDITIONE...

http://teamvelveeta.tom-purvis.com/2018/07/impermanence.html

Apparently yesterday was the world happiness day. The 5th world happiness day has now become history. Kinda silly, but maybe it is a good thing to have a look at your own state of being. Are yo...

http://teamvelveeta.tom-purvis.com/2017/03/happiness.html

I was born in 1964, in January. As of this writing in December of 2016 I'm nearing the end of my 52nd lap around the sun. As I've been thinking about my life now and the time of transition I'm in...

http://teamvelveeta.tom-purvis.com/2016/12/four-years-of-my-life-each-ending-in-6.html

I've been drawing permits to hunt deer and elk in Colorado for the last decade, on and off. I've put in serious efforts, casual efforts, and some years I've blown off hunting the permit altogethe...

http://teamvelveeta.tom-purvis.com/2016/10/killing-a-deer.html

I love Gunnison, I love Crested Butte, I love Paonia, and I love the Kebler Pass road. I have loved this part of Colorado since I first saw it way back in the mid-80s. When I first saw this cou...

http://teamvelveeta.tom-purvis.com/2016/04/west-elk-bicycle-classic-2015.html

On the evening of March 20, 2014 I stopped at Kenosha Pass to let the dog I was adopting have a chance to relieve herself. We had left the Foothills Shelter in Golden around 6 PM, Vicki had been...

http://teamvelveeta.tom-purvis.com/2016/03/two-years-with-my-sweet-little-dog.html

For 2016 I have been selected to be a Tailwind Trailblazer ! I'm honored to be an ambassador for this product that has done so much to enable my success. What is it? Very simply it is Endurance...

http://teamvelveeta.tom-purvis.com/2016/03/tailwind-nutrition.html

But whatever. We have to pick some day to mark the end of one year and the beginning of another. Since we rock the Gregorian calendar , it makes a certain amount of practical sense to end the ye...

http://teamvelveeta.tom-purvis.com/2016/01/new-years-day-should-be-december-22.html

Thursday, July 30, 2015 I worked like normal, but left around 3:30. Went home and started darting around, fussing with my pack and trying to make sure I was remembering everything. Then a little ...

http://teamvelveeta.tom-purvis.com/2015/08/a-contrived-failure-and-clear-win.html

We are having a beautiful year. In winter it was cold. Spring brought an unusual amount of moisture; snow, rain, slush--it was wet. Summer has been very dynamic. Big thunderstorms, then hot a...

http://teamvelveeta.tom-purvis.com/2015/07/july-2015-high-country-images.html

When summer comes and high country snow recedes, I start venturing up into my happy place on my bike. Between Mt Ouray and Mt Antora there there is a high basin with a series of drainages, two of...

http://teamvelveeta.tom-purvis.com/2015/07/describing-my-favorite-ride.html

Today I was up in my happy place riding my bike.  When I left the house this morning I was planning to climb to Marshall Pass and then climb backwards up the Crest trail to the top of Greens...

http://teamvelveeta.tom-purvis.com/2015/06/am-i-hundie-guy-why.html