Last week, I discovered a wonderful place for camping, hiking, horse-back riding and fishing almost in my backyard, i.e., within an hour’s drive from my home in Ridgway.  It’s Woods Lake, found at the end of Fall Creek road off Highway 145 between Placerville and Telluride.  Annabel and I went mid-week, so it was really uncrowded, and the few people we encountered were friendly and happy fellow campers.  We didn’t bring our horses this trip, but certainly checked out the adjoining horse campground for future reference.  We (well, Annabel) even managed to catch a couple of fish, and I took multitudes of photos of all the beautiful wild flowers.  Below is a video of our trip so you can enjoy virtually this wonderful location.  We’ll be back!

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It was so exciting to be a part of a large crowd on Friday, July 23, 2010, on a Montrose Regional Airport runway, to hear the announcement confirming that Extra Aircraft is the German aircraft manufacturing company that has chosen Montrose, Colorado to be its U.S. headquarters and assembly plant for its luxury business class single-engine turboprop, the EXTRA 500, and aerobatic airplane. Two of these planes were on display for the public to ooh and ahh over. This really is a big deal for Montrose, and quite a coup for the partnership of MEDC (Montrose Economic Development Corp.), the City of Montrose, the County of Montrose, and State of Colorado to bring this company to Montrose, which was in competition with about 7 other locations. It means the potential of 200+ jobs within the next 2-3 years, in addition to greater national and international attention for Montrose.

In this home made Flip Mino video of mine, I feature just a few of the speakers that presented at the ceremony. They include Sandy head, president of MEDC, Paul Matthews, Senior Sales Manager for Extra Aircraft, Errol Bader, V.P. of Corporate Development for Extra Aircraft, Ken Keith, Owner and CEO of Extra Aircraft, and Bruce Panter, of MEDC. There were many other speeches from proud representatives of the City, County, and the State and recognition of notable local players, which I did not include in the interest of time. I was so proud to be a MEDC Investor and Montrose area resident as I listened to all the complimentary things the folks from Extra Aircraft had to say about Montrose and the reasons they chose to locate their domestic facilities here, which are captured in part in this video.

Extra Aircraft will be at the upcoming aviation expo, AirVenture (http://www.airventure.org) in Oshkosh, WI (this coming week, where they will display the newly named “Spirit of Montrose” EXTRA 500 Aircraft and proudly promote Montrose, Colorado as their new U.S. location.

For more information on Extra Aircraft, visit their website at www.extraaircraft.com,
and their Youtube channel at
http://www.youtube.com/user/ExtraAirc…
and their Facebook Page at
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Hunxe-G…

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Last Saturday, July 17, 2010, was the 33rd annual Kendall Mountain Run in Silverton, CO. As I found out, it’s definitely for the fit and hardy, but for those of you like me, it can be done with the right mind-set and perseverance. Enjoy this video of my first KMR half marathon.  I can only go up from here, in more ways than one. LOL

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I’m just having fun, now, but if you’ve heard, we’ve had a rash of summer thunder storms across Colorado. Yesterday, at home in Ridgway, one of the biggest downpours, with all the trimmings hit me at home. Here’s a short video I took out my back yard (my first video upload)!

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