thanksgiving and life around

my camera is still away to be fixed. no photo.

thanksgiving. it turned out great but what a whirlwind.

we started off planning the party for my house and a friend, erin, that has a larger house and a big turkey and a dish washing machine invited all of us to go to his place and join him.

erin is a southern boy from mississippi and very gracious. the table was full of hot steaming delicious food. everyone pitched in and brought plenty of food, wine and dessert!!

ooooh, i tried something new this year for dessert. i want to do the pumpkin classic but with a new twist: pumkin custard triffel with orange-crandberry marmalade soaked in dark rum and it turned out to be unbelievable! i should have made it a day ahead to soak more.....rumalishish

then for buy nothing day (friday) sam, eric and i took a trip up to hot sulfur springs to soak a bit. the drive was beautiful it was full of snow from berthound pass on passed winter park. it wasn't snowing on us at hot sulfur but the temperature didn't get over 22 degress/-5c. oh sooooo cold switching pools!!! we tried the newest pool with a little water fall, the water fall was hot but the pool was cooler and shallow! so we stayed put for hours in the big water fall pool. so relaxing.

as for denver.
it hasn't gotten over 27 degress in the past three days and the snow is stil coming. there have been rock/snow slides all around the state, the largest one happened inbetween vail to glenwood. the slide sent boulders down that took out one side of the highway and sent all traffic for the first day up 40. but denver looks so good under the blanket of snow that has fallen.

as for me!
i have been approved for a house loan! so the search begins!!!! i want to find a house that has been split into apartments. here comes the commune!!! i have so many ideas running around in my head for the place, well the back yard for now.....hot tub, wood burning sauna, in law suite, studio for upholstery even.......hopefully in the next few months i will be able to post a photo of my new house!!!!! let me ground my self .....aahhhhh

cold cold cold.....my toes are cold. i'm going to get back under the covers with a hot cup of tea.

see photos of thanksgiving on gio's site.