May 2007

Starting line

Finish was in the University of Colorado football stadium, pretty cool

Ahh...finished at last...results to follow.  I'm pretty sure that I "beat my age".  (under 51 minutes)

 

 

05/25/07  Found an old picture of Dennis and Laura Goetz.  Dennis was a friend of ours who died of malaria after a mission trip to Zambia years ago.   THIS is an article in the paper about it. We think of him often, and miss him.  It will be good to see him again in heaven.

05/24/07  We got snow last night...Yikes!  Bring on that global warming.  Talked to Anika last night.  We are planning on a golf outing on Saturday before the wedding in Sept.   I found a picture of a wedding we "happened" on last year while driving through the Garden of the Gods.  

Now that my baby is getting married...time to check out some old pics.  Anika, Billy and Matt.  Me and Anika in Indian Princesses.

 

05/22/07  Me and a tech at work, Audrey

Had a customer late last night.  He is a soldier back from Iraq.  He was in for pain medication for his arm that has been operated on 10 times since getting messed up bad by an IED in Iraq.  One of his fingers was blown off and his arm is 45% muscle impaired.  His hearing was not too good either.  Anyway, we chatted for a while, and what a great attitude he had.  Making jokes about his arm and the IED's over there.  He did say that the IEDs were very sophisticated and were made by Syrian and Iran.  Even though his morale was very high, we was sad by the political stuff going on.  He totally believes in the mission and is frustrated that the troops have so many restrictions on what they do, and then are called "losers" by the politicians that make the restrictions.  I got a picture of me and Daniel..my new hero.

 

 

05/20/07  More pics of our trip to Santa Fe.  Took the "high road" back through Chimayo,NM.  This is the famous El Santuario de Chimayo church...  Called the "Lourdes of America"...website HERE

Flowers of Santa Fe 

Statue in one of the TONS of galleries in town

 

05/17/07  Some of the folks I work with...Coy and Devin(l) me and Barb(r)

Juan, Sandy and me ( we have mouths full of food)

And, of course the night folks (yes, we are all crazy on nights)

 

05/16/07  While in Santa Fe, we saw some folks taking their animals out for a walk. Yes, that is a rat on top of kitty.

 

05/15/07  We visited Taos Pueblo while in New Mexico ...facinating. People are still living there.. You can see where the adobe style of building comes from.                   From the WEBSITE..               How old is Taos Pueblo?
Our people have a detailed oral history which is not divulged due to religious privacy. Archaeologists say that ancestors of the Taos Indians lived in this valley long before Columbus discovered America and hundreds of years before Europe emerged from the Dark Ages. Ancient ruins in the Taos Valley indicate our people lived here nearly 1000 years ago. The main part of the present buildings were most likely constructed between 1000 and 1450 A.D. The appeared much as they do today when the first Spanish explorers arrived in Northern New Mexico in 1540 and believed that the Pueblo was one of the fabled golden cities of Cibola. The two structures called Hlauuma (north house) and Hlaukwima (south house) are said to be of similar age. They are considered to be the oldest continuously inhabited communities in the USA.

Those are drying racks in front of the buldings...the round things are community ovens.

These buildings must be constantly maintained because they are made of true Adobe.  Nothing but dirt, water, wood and straw.  The people that live here can have propane stoves and battery operated stuff.  No running water or electricity. 


 

05/14/07  Computer has been down for a few days....  pics of our trip to Santa Fe, New Mexico last weekend. First picture is us in our "haunted"room.  More on that later.  Then us with Steve and Yvonne, and a waiter that looks like their son.

We stayed in the La Posada de Santa Fe...  Beautiful place..our room was on the second floor of this building. We stayed in the    Julia Staab room...

We hung around a tour group later that night that was doing a haunted house tour of Santa Fe.  They were at our hotel because Julia Staab was still haunting the main part of the house.  Julia regularly showed up on the main floor (in the bathrooms) and in her old room #100 (THE ONE WE WERE STAYING IN!)  Oh oh... We let the tour group come up and see our room.

This is a picture, that the tour guide had, of Julia in the mirror in the corner of our room

Julia in a painting in the room and the corner where the dresser used to be.

We took a picture of us in a mirror downstairs to see if we could see Julia in it...  AHHH! Now THAT is scary!!!

 

 

 

05/08/07  Snowed yesterday..UGH...  Pics of Garden of the Gods today and Pikes.. Some guy tried to hike up Pikes Peak on Sunday and got stranded. Article HERE.  Spent 2 days up there at Barr Camp and is being rescued today... Click HERE to read about Barr Camp

 

 

 

 

05/05/07   Both Connie and I ran the "Take 5 in the Park" race in the Garden of the Gods.  I ran the 5 miler. 

  My results.            Stephen Johnson          51 Colorado Springs CO     46:02      

Looks like Connie's chip was not activated, but she ran the 5K in about 40 minutes, she said.

 

 

05/03/07  Went fishing last Tuesday at 11Mile Canyon on the South Platte River.  Got a bunch of bites, but did not catch anything.  Does not matter, however, in such a beautiful place.  This picture will be that last one from my old junky camera, as I dropped it in the water after taking this picture.

My new (cheapo) camera....bought on Ebay...soon to be delivered..  

04/30/07  It was so sad to hear about Josh Hancock, a relief pitcher for the St Louis Cardinals.  Another reminder that even though baseball is fun to follow (especially the Cardinals), that the matter of eternity is WAY more important. 150,000 people die every day, and each one of us will be a part of that statistic sooner or later.   Please click on THIS website  if you are not sure if you will go to heaven or hell when you die.

 

On a lighter note....this is a burial urn for those who are BIG Cardinal fans.

 Check out THIS website

 

 

 

 

04/29/07  Hiked Gold Camp Trail...background is downtown Colorado Springs.  

Wifey and pooch....and us at the top of the trail. 

 

 

04/26/07  Global Warming?  Hmmmm... Check this documentary out.

  

 

 

  A bunch of folks from the World Headquarters of Compassion are running the BolderBoulder next month.   This is the T-shirt we are all wearing.   

The scripture is from Luke 4:18    "The Spirit of the Lord is on me,
because he has anointed me
to preach good news to the poor.
He has sent me to proclaim freedom for the prisoners
and recovery of sight for the blind,
to release the oppressed".  
 

04/25/07  Just got a certificate from the 1/2 marathon folks...