biking AND house!
May. 25th, 2019 06:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ilanaramaAs some of you know, Colorado had a late-season snowstorm earlier this week, but it cleared up beautifully for the Memorial Day weekend so we went on a bike ride! Here is the Strava map: basically, we rode the Skyline Trail (for some value of 'rode' which includes a whole lot of walking the bike up steep and rocky switchbacks, for me at least) up to Raider Ridge, then down the other side, then looped around through the Horse Gulch area and back through the trail system to the Skyline Trail trailhead, then back home. We actually rode to the trailhead on various bits of singletrack and one dirt road, so the amount of pavement totaled less than a mile, yay!
Here is Britt at our lunch spot on top of the ridge (and I know I've posted other photos at this very spot, but lookit all the snow in the mountains!):
I also wanted to post more house photos, since I realized that basically everything I've put up here since we moved in has been either the exterior or the great room/kitchen. Here is our sunroom, which will be getting houseplants eventually. It's designed so that in the summer, the sun doesn't come in due to the angle and overhang, but in the winter the sun should come in and warm up the black stone floor. The view is not as dramatic as on the other side of the house, but it looks out over - well, our driveway, first, but then a golf course (my beautiful lawn that I don't have to maintain!) and Raider Ridge in the background (the ridge we climbed today, though this view is further southwest than the spot where we were).
Here is my office! I waited to photograph it until I got my new office furniture (the Metro line from Pier One, rather simply made but solid wood). I still need to KonMari some of my office things (and put up some pictures!), but I am pleased with it as a workspace.
The thing on the left side of the view with the rock wall is the cat perch, which - I'm thinking of getting rid of since it doesn't seem to be bringing Lucy much joy. Instead she likes to sit in the bottom windows, which open and have screens across them (she loves sitting in them when they're opened), and the other evening I caught her sitting in the small upper window:
We still haven't put out the patio furniture because the landscapers are still working (well, the past few weeks they have not been here, which is a bit aggravating - we want this all done!) but I'm looking forward to moving our primary living space outside!
Here is Britt at our lunch spot on top of the ridge (and I know I've posted other photos at this very spot, but lookit all the snow in the mountains!):
I also wanted to post more house photos, since I realized that basically everything I've put up here since we moved in has been either the exterior or the great room/kitchen. Here is our sunroom, which will be getting houseplants eventually. It's designed so that in the summer, the sun doesn't come in due to the angle and overhang, but in the winter the sun should come in and warm up the black stone floor. The view is not as dramatic as on the other side of the house, but it looks out over - well, our driveway, first, but then a golf course (my beautiful lawn that I don't have to maintain!) and Raider Ridge in the background (the ridge we climbed today, though this view is further southwest than the spot where we were).
Here is my office! I waited to photograph it until I got my new office furniture (the Metro line from Pier One, rather simply made but solid wood). I still need to KonMari some of my office things (and put up some pictures!), but I am pleased with it as a workspace.
The thing on the left side of the view with the rock wall is the cat perch, which - I'm thinking of getting rid of since it doesn't seem to be bringing Lucy much joy. Instead she likes to sit in the bottom windows, which open and have screens across them (she loves sitting in them when they're opened), and the other evening I caught her sitting in the small upper window:
We still haven't put out the patio furniture because the landscapers are still working (well, the past few weeks they have not been here, which is a bit aggravating - we want this all done!) but I'm looking forward to moving our primary living space outside!