Day 27 in my “Leaving Loveland” challenge.
This place is just across the street from our house. In the mornings you can hear the tortilla-making machinery squeaking, and smell breakfast cooking. Probably about once a week I buy a couple dozen tortillas for tacos. That’s what we’re having tonight! We will very much miss our tortilleria.
Day 26 in my “Leaving Loveland” challenge.
Thursdays are double-punch days at the bread outlet I frequent, which happens to be in the same office/retail park as another great Loveland craft brewer, Grimm Brothers. It’s a quick bike ride from our house, so this afternoon Nathan and I made the bread and beer run.
Nathan got the Robber King, a rotating Robust Porter, and I went for Bearskin, an Irish Dry Stout, also a rotator. Grimm Brothers has the good pretzels, those bigger sourdough ones.
Day 25 in my “Leaving Loveland” challenge.
Here’s some more cool art Silas and I see on our walk home from school every day, by the same artist who did the painting on bricks I posted about earlier.
Another closeup shows her signature off to the right (“Robin Dodge 2015”):
Day 24 in my “Leaving Loveland” challenge.
Just about every day I walk Silas to school, and we pass Bruce Gueswel‘s studio.
I’ve always adored these works he makes from rocks that are displayed in the windows, and was intrigued to find out that he also makes artwork and chairs for Chipotle. Often when we walk past in the mornings, we can see employees at work inside.
While there’s already a good deal of bronze sculpture being made in Loveland, it’s fun to see someone working with a different medium.
Day 23 in my “Leaving Loveland” challenge.
Not everything I love about Loveland has to stay behind when we move. One Saturday morning in November 2015 this sweet guy joined our family after we met him at an Animal Rescue of the Rockies adoption event at Loveland’s PetSmart. (He came from a shelter in New Mexico and was being fostered by a woman in Denver but Loveland brought us together!)
Cody inspired a couple of my songs of the week last year (“Cody’s Theme” and “Black Dog Road“), and brings calm and play and warm snuggles to our little home. And I’m looking forward to turning him into a Minnesota dog!
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