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Current Address ... 30000 CR 371, Buena Vista CO 81211 Telephone ... 719 395 3444 Email ... Carl@LiarsLodge.com Relationship Status ... Married to Connie for 30 Years (2008) Occupation ... B&B Owner/Innkeeper, Part-time Flyfishing Guide Hobbies ... Flyfishing, ATVing, Kayaking, Snowmobiling, Snow Skiing, Hockey Interests ... Mountain Search & Rescue, Maintaining Motorized/Handicap Access to Public Lands Education ... BS Business, Mississippi State '72 |
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1980 with Connie and newborn daughter Jessica |
| Mid '90s, me with daughter Jessica and pup. This advice may be coming a little late, but dogs are cheaper to raise and don't make your hair turn gray! |
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Our daughter Jessica (27) 2007 at her wedding stands beside our son Brett (24). Jessica is waiting tables and taking jewelry-making classes. Brett graduated from UNC (Northern Colo.) in business and operates the local Edward Jones Investments office. |
| With Connie snowmobiling on the Flattops. My photographic 'best side' is from a distance. |
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After graduating from MSU, I went to work for Helena Chemical in Iowa in sales, then to South Texas (Harlingen) and then to the Colorado Plains in 1975 as a branch manager. There I met a schoolmarm, Connie who had just moved to Colorado from North Dakota (to get closer to skiing), and in a moment of grape-induced weakness, she agreed to marry me in 1978. In 1979 I finally concluded that I was too hard-headed to work for someone else, quit the chemical business and went on my own in wholesale ag equipment. Our Daughter Jessica came along in 1980 and son Brett in 1983. After a couple of boom and bust cycles, we hit a nice long boom cycle in the late '80s to mid '90s and I sold out to employees. Connie kept teaching while I designed and built our next misadventure, Liars' Lodge B&B in the central mountains. We opened in '98 and Connie retired from teaching. We are open half the year and play and travel the rest. I volunteered for our local ambulance service while in the Colorado plains and became Advanced Life Support certified in '91. After our move to the mountains, I switched to Mountain Search & Rescue and served as local president the last 3 years (I was the last one to say "Hell, No" when the outgoing president asked "Does anyone want this thankless, non-paying job?"). Unofficial Motto: Keeping people in the gene pool who should probably be removed. A big Thanks to the organizers, and I'm looking forward to seeing everyone at my first reunion! |
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