by Spencer Swalm | Feb 18, 2017 | Uncategorized
My wife and I had the fun of baby sitting our two young granddaughters the other evening while our daughter and her husband got a little time to themselves. After dinner, I suggested to my older granddaughter, Bridgette, that we toddle around the corner to see our...
by Spencer Swalm | Mar 17, 2016 | Uncategorized
My wife and I were at a Vail condo this past weekend with my daughter Lauren, her husband, Haden, and their one and a half year old daughter, Bridget. Being grandparents is all that it’s cracked up to be: a blast. And there are two more grandkids on the way...
by Spencer Swalm | Jul 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
My wife and I drove into Denver the other evening for a night out. As we emerged from the Alameda underpass going north on I-25, several locomotives leading a coal train south thundered by on the tracks just to our right. As we neared Colfax, the Zuni power plant’s...
by Spencer Swalm | Jun 23, 2015 | Uncategorized
My wife and I were in the mountains a couple weekends ago. On Saturday, we drove to Sylvan Lake State Park, just south of I-70 at the Eagle exit and one of the crown jewels of our state park system. The trail around the lake is an easy walk and I enjoyed asking the...
by Spencer Swalm | Jun 10, 2015 | Uncategorized
Jumbo shrimp. Sweet sorrow. Open secret. Seriously funny. Liquid gas. Recreation industry. My wife and I were in Vail over the weekend. Something called the “GoPro Mountain Games” was packing them in. “GoPro Heros” are those small video...
by Spencer Swalm | Jun 5, 2015 | Uncategorized
For a guy nearly eligible for Social Security, this is pretty techie stuff! At least my daughter was impressed-who, for this kind of thing, relies almost entirely on her VERY techie husband.