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<\/a>Dinner sure tastes good<\/p><\/div>\n
Other Things: \u00a0All the holiday lights are down and packed away until next year. It is kind of sad to say\u00a0this final goodbye to Christmas 2014.<\/p>\n
Football playoffs are on and both our favorite college teams, Oregon and Wisconsin, had good seasons. The final college game between Oregon and Ohio State\u00a0—\u00a0for the national championship\u00a0—\u00a0should be a good one. On the professional football side, the Broncos may or may not move on\u2026game is later today and we’ll\u00a0be watching.<\/p>\n
Pam is progressing on her guitar\u2026even played a whole song yesterday! \u00a0As part of the renewed effort to have music in the house, I picked up a pair of small “book shelf” speakers (Klipsch B-10) and connected them to the stereo system. The system has been non-functional for quite a while, as the cats liked to claw up the speakers when\u00a0they were sitting on the floor (rest of system is on our armoire) so I had to move\u00a0the previous speakers\u00a0to the garage. The new speakers fit into the armoire’s top shelf and are safe from the cats. While not the same sound as my old Bose 301s, the sound is not bad and it’s\u00a0nice to have the house system functional again. (The system includes a turntable – vinyl\u00a0is coming back!) Next I’ll pick up an adapter and put the TV on the stereo system; the TV’s built in speakers leave something to be desired in terms of sound quality.<\/p>\n
We started the process of getting a well permit for the Sanderling property. In Colorado all water belongs to the state; this means we first have to get permission from the state to legally pump water out of the ground. It turns out the lot is\u00a0in Water District 1 so we had to send a form to the Water Court, along with $5.00, to get a “docket receipt” that enables us to use water from a well for household purposes. We sent this in a few days ago and probably won’t hear back for a while, but the first step has been taken.<\/p>\n
Next step, to be taken after we get the water court\u00a0docket receipt, is to file a well permit application ($100.00) with the state. A permit will let us drill a well, and the docket receipt will let us pump water from it.\u00a0Two forms, two different agencies, two different fees, just to get a well drilled.<\/p>\n
The well will cost around $10,000.00 and will be, we expect, about 300 feet deep. I spoke to a Fairplay\u00a0well drilling company and we’ll\u00a0start looking at potential well sites in\u00a0March or April. More on this endeavor in a couple months.<\/p>\n
That’s it for now. Thanks for looking in!<\/p>\n
Pam’s Two Cents Worth:<\/p>\n
Woo hoo, aren’t y’all thrilled to hear of my progress playing the guitar? \u00a0The song in question has two chords, both chords use three fingers, and are close to each other\u00a0on the neck of the guitar. \u00a0Callouses have started to form on the fingers of my left hand. \u00a0My right thumb started bleeding when the skin cracked; guess I’ll need to get with the program and use\u00a0that dang guitar pick for strumming.<\/p>\n
Happy Trails.<\/p>\n
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