Blue Stone Gems, Green Lemon and Biking Boy

BLUE STONE GEMS AND GREEN LEMON

You know how you sometimes notice small businesses during your travels to and fro and say to yourself, " I've driven past this place so many times and never stopped. I really need to check it out?" Well, we've done that for awhile every time we have driven past a new gem shop located on a frequently traveled thoroughfare to the mountains. We finally stopped the other day. As opposed to other places that have rented this spot, this one had a real bonafide sign, not something that looked like an afterthought, cheap looking, crudely painted and posted. Good signage is a good sign, meaning that it shows the owners are putting some serious effort into their marketing.

Anyway, we stopped and were very pleasantly surprised to find a little shop full of beautiful stones, gems and geodes. There were nice pieces of jewelry also. It was well stocked and everything was displayed to the best possible marketing advantage. We started talking to the owner and found that he and his wife had recently moved here from a more easterly part of the U.S.. They'd had the same type of business there and decided to move to Colorado where they had visited quite frequently over the years. Good move - to Colorado - great state. We chatted at length about lots of things. One interesting topic was a band they sort of followed called Green Lemon. This band is apparently from our area here in Colorado and they are good enough to have developed quite a fan base across the U.S., including the owners of the Blue Stone. They like them so much that they "followed" them here, so to speak.

We exchanged contact information before leaving and I asked permission to take a couple of pictures for my blog. After we got home, I went to the Blue Stone Gems MySpace page to look around and then to the Green Lemon page. Merle and I listened to the songs they have playing on MySpace and were very, very impressed. They have a great sound.

We look forward to having the Blue Stone owners as neighbors in our wonderful community.

BIKING BOY WITH ELMO SLIPPERS
Here are a couple of cute pictures of my little nephew.We all went for a short but vigorous bike ride the other day. Merle, Biking Boy's Mom and yours truly. Biking Boy rode in his cool Trek child trailer behind Mom. At one point he managed to get one of his Elmo slippers out of the trailer and onto the road. Mom had to backtrack a bit to pick it up.

Later on in the evening, he and Uncle Merle stomp danced together in the kitchen. I missed that one, I'm sorry to say, but Merle told me about it. It would have been a great video, I'm sure.