Ragged Mountain Birthday Celebration
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An invite from my Uncle Willard Brosius to come help him celebrate his 80th birthday at a mountain retreat ranch in Colorado had us thinking about it for about 2 seconds before we fired off an e-mail to say that we would indeed be there. It meant two round trip tickets to Grand Junction, Colorado and a rental car to then drive the 90 or so miles to the ranch but the chance to not only see Willard and his wife Glenda whom we had not seen in 14 years but also the chance to get reacquainted with my cousins, Steve, Diana, Jimmy, Rose Lee, Sheila and their families. The cousins I had not seen since my early teens.
After leaving the paved road it was an interesting climb up Ragged Mountain to the ranch as the road meandered back and forth for about 7 miles on gravel that at times had some ruts from water runoff. The scenery was spectacular.
When we reached the lodge at the ranch we were greeted by Willard and Glenda and after hugs and some initial conversation we were shown to our cabin hideaway to freshen up and get ready for supper. One couldn't help but just stand and look around in awe as the scenery was beautiful and so was the weather.
Getting reacquainted with my Cousins Sheila, Rose Lee, Steve and Diana and their family members who were present was a real treat and it was agreed by all that we should not let so much time pass before getting together again. We had a camera failure and lost some of our pictures thus I do not have a picture of Diana and her husband Steve. Cousin Jimmy and his family did not make the celebration but sent a nice write up with pictures of his family.
We had a fantastic time visiting and sure wish that we could re-wind the years so as to have stayed in better contact.
