Trick or treats!

Chaos showed his maine pride for Halloween this year and sported a lobster outfit at work today. I will never understand why target doesn't carry big dog outfits too- we had to mess with the lobster to make it work. It was well worth the effort and monster enjoyed the attention.
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flying over telluride

our fellow sugarloaf bob just moved to Telluride for the winter and took the daves and I up in his plane over telluride. We flew to Ouray (an hour's drive, 5 minute fly) over Silverton and to Ridgeway. It was a beautiful day and we all had fun. Bob even let dave fly for a bit...
here's the view from 15,000 feet!
Thanks Bob!

Pumpkins

We headed to Jim's last night for some good time and pumpkin carving.
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Things I love

Falling gas prices and better mileage! This was taken tonight in telluride. I thought it was a joke at first- remember when $3/gal was high?
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4Runner's first big trip

we piled in the 4runner today with jared and jess and took a trip to paonia to pick some apples and pumpkins. it was a good mellow day with a nice drive to mcclure pass. The 4runner proved to be very comfortable for 4 adults. We didn't test out the dog worthiness today as chaos had two friends over for the weekend and we were sure they would be more comfortable at home.

i took my dog pack on a good walk this morning and let them roam in the woods. the dogs needed a good run after a long red sox game last night. the power went out halfway through the game and our entertainment became the playing dogs by candlelight for an hour until the power and game resumed.

and the winner is...

We found the new car for campchaos. After hours of online shopping and comparisons we selected a 2007 white Toyota 4Runner. It has lots of space for Chaos & friends (his and ours), comfortable seats for all and can tackle the snow and mountains.
I went to Denver after work on Monday and met with the insurance company and then headed over to the Toyota dealer. I had planned on "just test driving" but everything fell into place (a check from state farm and good financing from the dealer) and ended up finding the right car for us. The conundrum was that I had planned on just testing and booked a round trip rental from Telluride. I called the company to see if I could return it elsewhere and it was possible for a small fee ($450) needless to say I brought the rental home. The Toyota went to live with Sam and Meghan in Summit County. Sam brought it down Thursday and Meghan joined in on Friday for a weekend in telluride. Friday we hit the town with some Telluride friends with a tour of the infamous spots. Beers at the buck, dinner at Fat Alley then a trip to play silly games at o'bannon's. The boys made plans to ski today with Jim and Jared up on Imogene Pass. Late night plans never go as planned and today the boys got a late start without Jared. They made a few hikes up for their turns the we all regrouped for pizza at Jim's this evening. We have become quite the dog house and picked up Mako for the night along with Chaos, Kaya and 7 month old Echo. They do well together and are learning each other's quirks.