Category Archives: neighborhood

‘Twas the Night Before…

Posted on February 11, 2019 by bullersbackporch

Well, it’s may not be Christmas Eve, but you can hardly tell by all the excitement this week in Cañon City. Tomorrow morning, the Small Business Revolution will announce the Top 5 contenders to be featured as the winner in … Continue reading →

Posted in Cañon City, community, neighborhood, neighbors | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Cañon City Keeps Comin’ On Strong

Posted on February 9, 2019 by bullersbackporch

It’s not over till it’s over and that certainly applies to the Small Business Revolution Season 4 selection process. After making it into the Top 20 of over 12,000 self-nominated towns, Cañon City was named as one of the Top … Continue reading →

Posted in Cañon City, community, neighborhood, neighbors | Tagged | Leave a comment

Small Business Revolution Visit in the Cañon City Rear View

Posted on February 5, 2019 by bullersbackporch

Following up on yesterday’s blog about my Top 5 reasons Cañon City is #1, here are a few articles and videos related to last week’s visit from the Small Business Revolution crew, headed up by Amanda Brinkman. Ryan Stevens, our … Continue reading →

Posted in community, neighborhood, neighbors | Tagged , | Leave a comment

Austin: In & Out of the Box

Posted on November 6, 2017 by bullersbackporch

Even as we completed our Trajectory Towards Transformation six months ago, we knew we were in for a return run to Austin, one way or another. Even with 2 trips in U-Haul trucks, we still could not move all of the accumulated … Continue reading →

Posted in Austin, Buller, Casa Dexter, friends, music, neighborhood, performances | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Trajectory Towards Transformation: Part 5 — Selling 1701 Dexter

Posted on May 30, 2017 by bullersbackporch

“Have you listed your house yet?” People we knew had been peppering us with that question for months, starting as soon as we would mention possibly selling and moving. “No…” I would start to say, and then patiently explain that selling it would … Continue reading →

Posted in Austin, Buller, neighborhood, neighbors | Tagged , | Leave a comment

A Sunny Afternoon — and Evening

Posted on August 22, 2016 by bullersbackporch

Final of 3 posts about our recent adventure in England If we’d been treated like royalty back at Peckforton Castle, we were treated even better in East Finchley: like old friends. We relaxed with our hosts, Hank & Kelle, in … Continue reading →

Posted in anecdotes, Buller, friends, neighborhood, travel | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

One Man’s Trash…

Posted on June 15, 2016 by bullersbackporch

It’s bulk garbage pick-up time again in our neighborhood. All those old bulky items that cannot possibly fit into a regular trash bin can be placed curbside for collection. The city sends a notice to announce the start date for pick-up, but also warns people … Continue reading →

Posted in anecdotes, Buller, neighborhood | Tagged | Leave a comment

Friday — from “Fool!” to “Wonderful…wonderful!”

Posted on December 6, 2015 by bullersbackporch

Part 4 of our story: the day after Thanksgiving Friday morning found me still planning to head back to Austin that afternoon. Several weeks back, I had promised to take informal photos at a co-worker’s wedding. Though we hadn’t discussed it … Continue reading →

Posted in anecdotes, Buller, Family, friends, happiness, love, neighborhood, travel | 1 Comment

Read & Release

Posted on June 25, 2014 by bullersbackporch

I released Austin Kleon into the wild this week. That is, I placed a copy of his most recent book into our neighborhood “little free library” for anyone to pick up and take. It seemed like the right thing to … Continue reading →

Posted in books, library, neighborhood, sharing | Tagged , , , , , , | 1 Comment