The garden is yielding some nice cut flowers for the house these days. That was one of my objectives in improving the landscape around here over the past year.

Speaking of gardens, last night I rode my bicycle a mile and a half to the monthly Green Drinks gathering at the Gardens at Spring Creek. A beautiful evening, free local craft beer and catered food, nice interesting people, and a lovely garden setting. Times like this make me wonder how much we would miss Fort Collins if we move on - even though I will never be the rock-climbing, kayak-paddling, Subaru-driving, mountain-bike-riding-in-the-snow-while-wearing-shorts, craft beer guzzling (oh, wait - I kinda like that...), tri-level-dwelling, type that fits in so gracefully here.



Between visits to the beer tap and food spread I enjoyed chatting with various regular participants. The realtors I know are looking a little haggard these days when I inquire about the local market, but they offer reassurance that things are still at least 'flat', and not in a serious state of decline like so many markets. I ran across a guy who does straw bale construction projects with his brother around the state. We have talked before about what would be involved in putting a small house on a corner of the ranch in Wyoming. I think we are going to try to meet with them both more formally to make notes about how such a project would actually play out and what it would cost.

Just another in a large number of wildly different possibilities.

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