Slowly Making My Way To Colorado

Now that we Delaney's graduation over it's time for me to start making the final move to Denver.  As you know, we are in an apartment in Centennial until our home is finished, which is tentatively set for the end of September/early October.  This means that most of the things we have in our home in Odessa will be packed and stored until we make our final move once the house is finished.  This last week I took a load of things that we will need to have in the apartment that I no longer need in Odessa- crock pot, most of the canned foods in the pantry, kitchen gadgets etc. I also realized that since we will be in the apartment thru early fall, it might be a good idea to take some cold weather clothes to Denver and not put everything in storage because I will probably need them before we move into the new house.

On Thursday, we had a genuine "Welcome to Colorado" storm hit.  It was a beautiful day, not too hot or humid, and by 4-ish there were clouds building up over the mountains.  About 5 a huge black cloud came overhead and it started hailing as hard as I have ever seen.  

It lasted about 5 minutes and this is how it looked after it stopped.

It was soft hail and didn't do any damage to the cars or to windshields but it stripped lots of leaves off of the trees.  There were two tornados reported touching down just east of Parker but there was nothing like that here. Not even high winds- just lots of hail in a short period of time. 

Someone took this picture and posted it on Twitter.  I thought it was clever to make a snowman out of hail!

Mark's company had a company sponsored evening at Coors Field on Friday night.  I had to go pick up the tickets to the game at the offices downtown so Friday morning I took the train to get them.  While I was coming home  the train jerked forward and the conductor slammed on the brakes.  At first I thought there was a car that had tried to beat the train but as it turned out- it was these two characters!

What's really crazy about this is that these two deer were about a half mile from downtown! 

We got to watch The Rockies play The Dodgers. It was held in the company Suite and they had a yummy buffet of typical ballpark food: bratwurst, hot dogs, pizza, peanuts, popcorn, ice cream, etc.  It was a beautiful night- almost cold as far as Mark and I were concerned and we both ended up wearing lightweight jackets on the way home.  Oh Lordy...It's gonna be an adjustment for these Texans to remember to bring jackets to outdoor events in the summer.

We went out to the house today and it is coming along but there's nothing to take pictures of per se.  They have almost finished getting the insulation put in and they are working on the plumbing and electrical systems. The basement was also framed out this past week. The slate tiles for the roof were delivered while we were there so I suppose they will be putting those up sometime this week.  

Mark and I are going to downtown Centennial later this afternoon for their Summer Kickoff.  There is a street fair, entertainment and a "Concert in the Park". Should be a fun evening.