Foothills Focus

Featured Author

Sally Ball

Biography

Sally Ball and her husband, Jim, own Rivendale Farms and spend their time with 18 alpacas, two very large dogs and two incredibly spoiled cats. Sally is a realtor and heads up the KW Land division for Keller Williams Foothills. Some speculate she chose to specialize in Farm & Ranch simply because she likes tromping around outside and hanging out in barns.

Featured Author

Jodi Dolph

Biography

Jodi Dolph is a broker associate and productivity coach with Keller Williams Foothills Realty. She serves on the Conifer Chamber board of directors and is an instructor at Conifer Jazzercise. Besides helping people reach their goals, she loves paddle boarding and golfing with her family.

Featured Author

Rachel Mulvihill

Biography

Rachel has been a foothills resident since 2001 and is a second generation foothills realtor. When she’s not working as a real estate agent, she’s being a mom to her two teenagers and three dogs. Rachel thinks that the foothills are the best place to live and is surprised that everyone doesn’t already live here. She loves to be outside and to read, and when she puts the two together, she is one happy gal!

ARTICLES

Core Memories

“Life’s about changing, nothing ever stays the same... ” Patty Loveless sang it so sweetly in 1993, and I remember my mother and I sharing a glance when it played on the radio. She had moved to Texas, of all places, to live with her husband, and the song was such a...

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Go? Wait? Evacuate? And Life With Mannerless Alpacas

Living up here for over 33 years and having livestock for the last 21 years, we’re no strangers to fire danger and the potential for evacuation. We’ve been on pre-evacuation status many times, but never felt the potential danger close enough to evacuate the alpacas...

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Welcome to Colorado

This article has been brewing inside of me for quite some time now. As a certified Facebook scroller, I am a devotee of our community pages. There are pretty much the same few posts mixed up and reposted day after day. There’s the “shoutout about a local business”...

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Empty Nesting

Nesting: 22 years ago I was building a nest—not sure exactly what I was preparing for, yet instinctively there was a desire to get ready. An urge to tidy up, a place for everything and everything in its place. Reflecting, it would have been beneficial to read a couple...

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A Fresh Start

Yesterday I unpacked my last box in my new home. I hope when you read that sentence, you hear the trumpets’ fanfare. Because I sure do! I know I mentioned in my last article that I was pretty clueless about what moving entails. I frequently witness my clients going...

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Spring Has Sprung, and It’s Still a Surprise

It’s still a surprise that it’s 2024, that it’s April, that my youngest is graduating in May, and I’ll turn 50 in July. That COVID began four years ago (that will always be a significant marker of time) and that we will be facing an election of T and B yet again in...

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The Choice of Happiness—Revisited

I first wrote about this topic in March of 2021, but it’s just so appropriate right this minute that I felt the need to share it again with some updates. You know how the universe has a way of putting things and ideas and people in your path to shine a light on an...

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The Purge

There are 27 steps between my garage and my house. I’ve counted them while going up and down those steps at least 32,000 times over the years. Almost every single time I go up the stairs, I have something that I’m bringing into the house. Much less frequently, I’ll...

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Book Club 2024

Buying books for my kids and nephews at Christmas has been a fun tradition for me and not so much for the kids. It seems like a logical, useful and mentally stimulating gift that has not been well received in the past, and even now that they are older. I vaguely...

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How Hard Can It Be?

As many of you know, we have had an alpaca farm for 20 years now. Inherent and implied in the contract of being a good livestock owner is that one will develop skills around hauling a trailer. You know, hooking it up, going forward, going backward, not letting it pass...

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Solo

Earlier this year, I wrote an article in this very publication talking about the evolution of travel from single person to family and back to single person. Well, guess what? I just returned from my first solo trip since I was in my 20s (that was three decades ago for...

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The Thrill of It

It’s football season, and this season, more than any other I can remember, has been the one that was preceded with the most anticipation. You might know why—it’s kind of a big deal in Colorado. If you know me, you’ve heard this story already. It’s about Prime Time....

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