buckle-up

What can I say about the month of June? Well, best to admit, it was special. During our time in Munich when Margo and I were attending a conference at which I was speaking, the idea came to us that perhaps we were doing too much. There was a shared sense of being overwhelmed where the first thoughts about how best to simplify our lives were discussed. Central to these thoughts was what could we do with the Colorado condo we had acquired two years earlier? Was having a second residence, one that was very close to our grandkids, really meeting all of our expectations in this regard. At this time of year, the heat has been turned up in Florida. When daytime temperatures touch 90F with humidity hovering around 50% there’s no missing the news that pool temps are already at 90F without any outside interference. Don’t need to have the pool heater fired up although, for the spa, there will be a need to run the spa heater for a short time – we like the spa temp set to 102F. With this in mind,...

Before Margo and I married, we had already contracted with an architect, bought a block of land, and began designing our first house. This would fulfil a shared, lifelong, dream of building our fantasy home. A fresh start. A bold design and a place that we would transform from an empty piece of land into a home that would provide both. the escape from business and become a space to entertain employees, business associates and most of all, family. The overriding element in the design featured two separate guest suites, each with en-suite and a separate room to relax and to look out on the fabulous ever-changing Colorado   landscape. It was an ambitious project that began in March 1999 and where we first took occupancy on July 4, 2000 but had to wait another year for the house to be fully built-out – our master bedroom suite being the last room to be finished. As for the two suites, these were included as we wanted to provide my parents an away-from-Sydney home – they would visi...