DeNaes Garden

Well... All that diggin up grass and planting paid off..... I think. DeNae says that we have a healthy garden and we will be seeing great Peas, cucumbers, zucchini, and tomatoes... I say they cost .25 at the store but.. Like John Denver says nothing beats the taste of home grown tomatoes. It's a happy little garden because it has a happy little gardener.. I meant DeNae.. I'll be happy when I'm eating my BLT! I sure hope the bacon seeds start to grow!
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Chocolate Mile Run Down the Puder Canyon

Normally the Poudre canyon water is cold and beautiful and clear like this:
Funny Picture Huh! Well we started to drive up to run an area called filter plant in our kayaks. On the way I noticed something disturbing.. The white water rapids.. weren't white. Kaleb Walton Our friend that came with us said " I think that there was an oil spill".. Thats how bad it looked.. Thats also how dumb Kaleb is!.. Just kidding Kaleb your not dumb... just slow.
We decided to still run it.. We were already there.. How bad could it be??:



Because we only had one car we took all of the gear up at the top and then I drove down and then hitch hiked back up. The guy That I hitched back up with was like " I don't know how smart it is to run this water". As he talked a little to me and realized that I couldn't even finish full sentences.. he agreed that running it would be the best thing. So we did. We just kept saying: "don't roll, don't roll!" well.. we all rolled and we were all filthy after:


I guess the water level was so high they opened the flood gates on a damn that they normally don't. It released all of the silt that had been storing up for years.The pictures don't do the dirt justice. Anyway it was still fun and after we sprayed ourselves and our gear off with the hose all was well!
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Trent & Lori Come to visit= Broken Bike

We always talk to people in UT who say "when are you coming her.. When .. When??" We always try to remind them that the road works both ways. Trent and Lori come to colorful CO at least 1 if not twice a year! We love it when they visit. The only thing we don't love is when we put the choo choo train on a new Mt Bike and the bike is unfix able after. .. Heres the story: Trent, Denai and Brendon went biking to Lori state park. We went up a Really big hill. trenton actually madi it up just fine. He is in pretty good shape:

Then Came the sketchy part.. We started to get into the more technical part of it and I heard a snap... not just your regular everyday snap.. It was a biggie. Trent had tried to push so hard up a hill that his bruit strength snapped the cassette Heres a Pic of what one is:

While doing this the Chain bent and pulled and broke the derailer then since he could'nt petal on the way down.. trying to hang on he broke the shifter knob and brake lever.. All in all the bike ended up looking like this:

Okay just kidding... I told trenton I knew it was a sacrifice for the bike going into it. Big trenton V.S Mid priced Mt. Bike = picture above. I actually won the bike for free at work for selling more Tea than any other store in CO. I wasn't too bummed plus he Lori and Train took us to Dinner and spoiled us for the rest of the trip. We sure love those two! We have such a good family... Where the Hell did I come from?
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Bustling Sunday

Funny Story..... So I was suppose to help a new family move into the ward move yesterday and I ended up working late and had an hour to get ready for a bunch of work friends to come and BBQ with us so I forgot and didn't help. ( I can feel the blessings coming down from that...) So, I called them this morning and invited them over for a BBQ tonight. I told them I'd see them at church and give them directions. So we lookd around at sacrament and saw a new couple. We sat behind them and I said:"Hi I'm Brendon" and he said: "Hi I'm Ben" Now the guy I talked to on the phone and invited to a BBQ, his name was Ben. So we drew them directions to our house and told them wed be eating at 5:30. They seemed distant but agreed.. after we arrived home there was a message on my phone from .. Ben and he said "Hey missed you at church give me a call for directions to your house..........." I thought DeNae was going to kick the crap out of me because the Walton's were coming too and this meant that we would have 14 people over!!!! Anyway the couple that we creped out didn't show so... It was okay... But funny. Anyway here are a few pics:
Waltons and the Davis'
DeNae on the Walton's silly Scooter. They bought it off of Craigs List for $30 and gets 60 to the Gal.
DeNae and Blu Walton in the Square Back

It's really good to have such good friends and to have this big place to be able to invite new ones. Love you all,
Brendon

Tornado In Colorado??

Heres a video Over View:Click this link

It was crazy! Hot Day and I was excited to get off by 3 and go Mt. Biking, Then came the Cold, Rain and then Hail. There were lots of talks about a tornado.. There is always a lot of talk about a tornado.. I guess this wasn't just talk. DeNae was immediatly called into the city of Windsor. Windsor was by far the hardest hit city.
DeNae was pretty taken back at what she 1st saw as one of the 1st people to enter into the city after the tornado.:

She called and was almost speechless. It came within 2.5 Miles of our front door step.:
I Really didn't want to believe that it came that close to our house so the next day I went to go see for myself.. Right as I did another Tornado Hit FRI about 4 PM and DeNae called and said that she went into the City Halls basemant.. They were okay but it gave me a pretty good scare.
Here are a few Pics that I shot Too close to out house:

This was a feed Bin That had been thrown over
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This was the House that the feed bin came from The owner was trying to put a tarp on his roof as the next one hit.
I caught a bit of Video of the lesser tornado (Friday's) just north of our house:


Well DeNae called me after she'd worked for a little while she said:"It really makes me remember what is really important. All these people working so hard just to build big houses that get destroyed in seconds. I'm glad that we have each other."

For A pretty killer slideshow of all the damage check out: Click Link

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Denae's First Ride

OKay Okay DeNae it's not your 1st ride of the season just your 1st one since surgery. DeNae is incredible. Of corse she dosn't want to take an easy trail after being off a bike.. No she wants to take one of the most difficult, Sketchy rides in CO!
Heres what Trails.com said about it:
"Lory State Park/Horsetooth Mountain Park is prime real estate for some of the area’s best mountain biking. The Mill Creek Trail is arguably one of the most technically and physically challenging rides in all of Colorado!"
Of corse thats the one she'd pick. Anyway the trail Distance: 4.0 miles, elevation change: 1720 feet! 1720 Ft in 4 Miles!! Heres a Pic of Denae after getting to the top:

And Heres a pic of me after getting to the top:
Notice DeNae looks a lot better than me. What a tough cookie.
DeNae also found it funny that I had a flat tire and decided to take a picture of my pumping up my tire with a tiny pump.

(Notice all the stacked logs at the top? DeNae thinks its for Fire Mitigation.... that means it will slow down fire up there Dustin..)

The way down was the funnest.. If that's not already a word I'm making it one! Funnest. Really steep, sketchy, loose.. and fun! On the way over in the car we saw a sign that said it was turkey hunting season and realized that we'd never seen any...
They stopped us in the trail, I'd never seen a turkey with out a pop up timer! It was fun!
Heres also a vid of me trying not to kill myself downhill:

All in All it was a fun day. I was proud of my tough wife.
I Love Mt. Biking!
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1st blog. Redneck Rampage

Well, Well, Well. Due to a threat by my sister we have hopped on the Blog Bus. I'm just going to try to test page. DeNae and I went shooting yesterday..Well I went shooting and DeNae humored me. We originally went to just shoot shotguns:


But we invited Lance:
And he invited all his redneck friends and eventually it turned into an all out arsenal. DeNae and Sonja her old roommate came and we shot: AR 50's, 22s, 357s, and what made the whole trip and what made DeNae want to throw up after shooting it was the BIG GUN :


It shot a hole in a barrel 350 Yds. away the size of a softball. DeNae did not like any of this and was forced into all of it including shooting the BIG GUN. She made it pretty clear that she would rather be climbing trees but humored us anyway. Anyway Love you all, Brendon and Denae