The Foundry

May 1, 2017 — Leave a comment

Day 29 in my “Leaving Loveland” challenge.

One thing that’s been exciting about living in Loveland for the past four years is the amount of growth and revitalization that has happened, especially downtown where we live. This is still a smallish town (about 70,000 people), but downtown doesn’t shut down evenings and weekends like other small towns I’ve known.

And a good number of those restaurants and breweries and artist studios that make downtown an after-hours destination have opened since we’ve moved here.

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But The Foundry (construction site pictured above, one block from our house) is definitely the biggest new thing happening downtown since we’ve lived here, and we won’t be around to see it completed. New housing and retail, including a movie theater, are planned for this space; which we were excited to hear because the only movie theater in town is a twenty-minute drive to the eastern edge at the fancy-schmancy Centerra shopping center, and we were looking forward to being able to walk to the movies. Oh well, not that we go to movies that often anyway.

 

Makin’ It Through

April 29, 2017 — Leave a comment

Day 28 in my “Leaving Loveland” challenge.

No place is perfect, not even places I dub paradise. Gray days aren’t a habit here so they don’t always get me down, but today has simply been an exercise in getting through it. We had planned to go camping at Great Sand Dunes National Park this weekend. Instead we got snow and cold and turned the furnace back on.

It’s been a good useful day for laundry, cleaning, baking (by Nathan who made banana bread), and online house-hunting. And now Nathan and the kids are off to the climbing gym and I’m thinking of a cup of tea and a good book.

Here’s the view out my living room window this afternoon:

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At least the snow isn’t sticking around, and tomorrow’s forecast includes sunshine.

Tortilleria La Autentica

April 28, 2017 — Leave a comment

Day 27 in my “Leaving Loveland” challenge.

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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.

Grimm Brothers

April 27, 2017 — Leave a comment

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.

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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.

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