I’d Like To Introduce Y’All
to Mrs DT …
It was a bit chilly out this fine day … 🙂
Mrs DT & I met in Colorado. We never really dated – the voice in my head told me she was the one and I’d better not mess this up. Not that I have a habit of messing things up. Too often. Well, maybe too often …
But I didn’t this time.
But to make up for not dating, we got married three times. Colorado acknowledges common-law marriage.
Wedding #1 – the one I recognize.
Mrs DT is from a foreign land. She had every intention of returning home; she turned down a good job because she was not staying. Until she met me. Ta da!
The Feds don’t recognize common-law so we had to do it formal like so she could get a green card.
Went over to the county courthouse, talked some clerk into signing papers.
Wedding #2 – the “official” one. Today’s date; Friday, February 13
Now people think, Aw, that’s cute. A Valentine’s Day wedding.
Nope. We don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day.
Like this year, we got married on Friday the 13th. It just happened to be February.
That’s why I’m posting this now.
But then friends and relatives spoke their minds …
So, we picked a date in May (nice weather) – I forget the date but I’m sure Mrs DT hasn’t – where we had a friend (I think he was ordained in some way back in his hippie days) perform a ceremony with all the traditional trimmings including a reception.
Wedding #3 – the almost forgotten one.
We must have done something right – still together and still friends. I was thinking 30 years – perhaps wedding #1; looking at a calendar, wedding #2 must have been 1998 so 28 years “official”.
She became a citizen in 2002 but that’s a different story.
Congratulations DT and Mrs DT.
Congrats! Ya’ll have learned to harmonize!
More later….
Way to go !! The Loveland Pass drive and the view from the top is one of my favorites.
One of my mother’s favorite expressions was, “All the good things come in threes”.
Congratulations and may you have many more, DT and Mrs.
Sweetness three times over. Congratulations!
Just curious…why do you not celebrate Valentine’s Day?
Loveland Pass. I am familiar with that area although it was [**Does math. Surprised at the number.**] nearly 50 (!) years ago that I was last through there. I attended CU-Boulder and my parents lived in the Sacramento area and so I-70 was the path between the two when I’d go back and forth for Christmas and summer breaks. I’d pack my little VW Bug right up to the roof with everything that I owned, and then tuck in behind an 18-wheeler as we both struggled up those slopes at 20-25 mph under our heavy loads. Pretty country.
And regardless of which day you celebrate, Happy Anniversary!
Thanks for the kind wishes.
Hm-m-m … nearly 50 years ago. Your math must be wrong …
That implies taking old US40 through Glenwood Canyon when it dumped out in front of the hot springs in Glenwood … and doing what was called I-70 when it was a 2-lane road through Utah, ending at an embankment at Salida to pick up US50. Used to camp out there along 70 a lot before it became a real Interstate limiting where you could get off the road. A lot less traffic then.
Many years later, I went to that other school in Golden – where I met Mrs DT. The rivalry was still present.
First time I went up Eisenhower, it was in an under-powered early 70s car. 35mph was the best I could do up the hill with faster vehicles sending me their opinions in the dust of their wakes. 🙂
No, my math is right. I was at CU between ’75 and ’79. 1976 was 50 years ago.
I don’t think that I was ever on US40, and I don’t know why I never took that route….GPS and Google Maps being decades into the future, it prolly had something to do with AAA planning my route. I did, once, drive I-80 east all the way to Cheyenne and then south to Boulder. After seeing that much of southern Wyoming, I decided that I’d seen enough and I never did it again.
This was the route that I most frequently drove. I know that explicitly because on one of my trips, I had to replace the engine on my little Bug in Price, Utah and it was my own damned fault.
I was in my Bug, loaded to the gills, with both my bike (back when you called your bike a “Ten Speed”) and my skis on their respective racks on the back. It was snowing and the roads were barely cleared when about 20 miles outside of Price my one and only Idiot Light came on indicating that the (air cooled) engine was overheating. I should have stopped, but I didn’t. Stopping would have meant finding a wide spot on a two-way road, during a snowstorm, and then unloading my bike and my skis so that I could open the hood to my rear-engine Bug. So instead of that, I thought that I’d limp the Bug into Price and deal with it there. But my Bug’s engine had had enough and it gave out. I had the car towed (again, AAA) into Price and then spent 3 days in a motel waiting for an engine and it’s installation.
First: I meant US6, not US40, through Glenwood Canyon. 40 cuts north over Berthoud Pass.
Second: I assumed you took US50 across rather than hopping up to I-80.
Third: I still think your math is off; you’re telling me 1976 was 50 years ago. Can’t be more than 20 or so … 🙂
I was in Boulder (Mork&Mindyville in those days) in spring 78 (not CU) but was working outside Green River UT summer of that year (and in Vegas by fall). The interstate was still under construction from the Moab turn-off west; we had to take US6 to get to Green River (based in Moab; worked the San Rafael Swell south of Green River. A story written but not yet – if ever – posted.) I still take that old road occasionally when I’m on that route – rarely these days. It’s not in good shape anymore.
There’s some spectacular scenery that I-70 passes through west of the Price cut-off (US6/US191)
From where I am, I-80 through Wyoming is the only practical choice if I have to head east. Looks like maybe 3 times this year … 🙁
Congratulations. When it’s right there’s nothing better. Here’s a picture my son sent from Monarch Pass last month
I like the truck. Spent many a trip going over Monarch. Have you done Marshall?
Monarch, Old Monarch, Cochetopa, Independence, Hagerman, Weston, Mosquito, Engineer, Cinnamon and about 60 others over the last 12 years…Did Tincup last August and the Jeep rental guy advised against Hancock…..and Tincup was bad enough.
Great country out there…a place to recharge my mental batteries.
Man after my own heart: “I wonder where this road goes?”
Haven’t done Marshall. That picture is from my son’s return trip. That truck was in a pasture with no engine and hadn’t run since 1995 at the beginning of December. My two boys got it running late on December 29 and took off for Colorado the next morning.
I have a ’76 F250 I’d love to take cross-country. Bit nervous about that though – hard to fix if problems. Now, when I was in my 20s – or even 40s – I’d not have given that second though and off I’d go.
Thank you all for the best wishes. Mrs DT is fixing open-face apple pie for dinner tonight. Too bad we can’t have a party.
If you flip it upside down in midair and slam it down on a big plate and peel the bottom up off’n it you can have upside down open faced apple pie, with lots of flat area for vanilla ice cream, whipped cream, chocolate curls, crushed pecans, etc.
FWIW, and it has nothng to do with your pie.
Last week I made a big chicken pot pie out of a left over pie shell from Christmas that was in the freezer. Didn’t have another one for the top and didn’t want to get into all that pie dough making, so I made up a batch of Bisquick and dumped all over it, then a stout dousing with shredded triple cheddar and then into the oven for 20. Almost had to handcuff the wife to keep her off’n it. It went down gooood. Haven’t had supper yet (5:50pm here) and my belly is doing it’s rabid pit bull imitation….