Susan's Pondering

WELCOME! This is my new blog site.  Truthfully, I am still learning about what blogging is all about so bear with me. The natural place to start is to give you a little history.

I am a 4th generation native of Colorado.  This fact seems to be boring to me, however to many people, they are impressed with the longevity of my family staying together here in the Longmont area.  My family started as farmers east of Longmont with many of the sons following their father’s steps.  My grandfather at one time owned all four corners of I-25 and Hwy 66.  That has been just a “few” years ago.

I grew up in the old brick house (torn down in 2008) on the corner of I-25 and Hwy 66.  There are many memories from living in that house at that location.  Can you believe I used to walk across I-25 to visit my grandparents?  There is no way a person can do this now a days.  When the Beatles toured the United States, they came through Colorado.  I was very young and I still remember seeing them.  A big limousine pulled up to our home.  They had a flat tire and wanted to know where they could get the tire fixed that was not highly populated.  My Mom sent them to Mead.  What I remember about them is their haircuts and the funny way they sounded when they talked.

I took a sociology class at the University of Colorado in Boulder.  When the professor asked how many extended families reside in the same state, I was the only one that raised my hand.  We spent the rest of the class time talking about how rare in this day and age to have multi family generations living in the same state, and even more rare, is to have them live in the same area within a few miles of one another.   The professor even proposed doing a study of our family ~ I was not impressed not thinking having my family all together was “cool.”

With that said, I do know Northern Colorado well, although there are a lot more lights on the horizon from when I was younger.