Pueblo, CO

Hatchet Ranch is a development just South of Pueblo by approx 1/2 hour. Most properties are 40 acres or more. A beautiful place to dream about the future or start your future right now! Below are some sales figures for year ending 2009.

Vacant land sales:

4 properties sold in 2009 : $39,900 - $59,900 average $50,450 Days on the Market 65 - 874

average price per acre $891

Current active listings: (43) $39,900 - $240,000 Average price $73,774 Median price $64,900

Days on the Market 48-1420 Average 434

Google : Hatchet Ranch Dena for more information & pictures

Military Discounts
Since I'm always trying to support the troops, here is the latest list of companies in Pueblo that offer military discounts. You may have to ASK for the discount and present your military ID but you'll get the discount. (Thanks to my super shopper Sheilah for this info!) If you know of more companies, please let me know so I can share the info with all my readers!

Home Depot and Lowe's - 10% discount
Lady Footlocker in Pueblo Mall - 20% discount

MoMo West Japanese Restaurant
After reading about MoMo's in the latest version of the Pueblo West View (http://pueblowestview.com/business/1259823600/1), my husband and I just had to stop by and check them out. Usually we eat Japanese at Miyake's in Pueblo at 4104 Outlook Blvd Ste 132 which we like very much but we were excited to try something closer to home. Momo's is located at 76 N. McCulloch, No 160 (right next to Boondocks near Wal-Mart). I have to say we had a GREAT dinner. Nice size portions at a good price. The service was friendly. The sushi was fresh. Plus we got some freebies. The chef brought out a panko batter-fried concoction with a sweet/spicy glaze. It was so melt-in-your-mouth creamy we couldn't figure out what was inside so we had to ask our friendly head waitress Corrina. To our surprise it was Red Snapper. Absolutely delicious! A dessert freebie was Mochi ice cream, a large bon-bon of red bean ice cream wrapped in rice paper. This was also delicious. Two delicacies that we wouldn't have tried otherwise! Stop by MoMo's and let me know what you think. Welcome to Pueblo West!

As always, if you've got some info to share about our community, don't hesitate to email or call so I can spread the word!

Deb

GRAND OPENING OF GAIA'S GARDENS GREENHOUSE FEATURING AN INDOOR PLANT SALE THIS SATURDAY & SUNDAY 11AM - 3PM BOTH DAYS
Join us as we celebrate the GRAND OPENING of Gaia's Gardens Greenhouse featuring an Indoor-Plant Sale, this Saturday and Sunday, November 7 & 8, 2009, 11:00am - 3:00pm both days, at the Gaia Institute Wellness Center, 622 E. 8th Street (corner of E. 8th Street and Fountain Avenue)! Proceeds will help us offset Winter utilities and introduce our new program featuring greenhouse activities, called YOUNG MOTHERS TODAY. This program will be operated mostly by young Moms who had their babies during their teen years. It will help bring them together to gain strength from each other and learn new skills. Remember, we can help you:

• keep your indoor gardening activities going all year long! Our Happy Worm Herders Worm Castings are nature's superior single-ingredient plant food and soil amendment, to keep your plants their healthiest all year long! Castings can even be used 'straight' to start seeds - for indoor herb and vegetable gardens or for getting a jump on next year's planting season.
• keep your indoor composting activities going all year long! Our Happy Worm Herders Composting Condo Kits can help you get set up to do indoor composting of your own organic waste WHILE you produce your own castings for next season!
• feed and bed down your outdoor gardens! Top application of our Happy Worm Herders Worm Castings during the Fall will ensure that your plants, trees, shrubs, and gardens get plenty of time-released nutrients to enhance root growth and strength!

Wood-Chip mulch also available! Look for us on Facebook (link below) and on Merchant Circle! http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=6875&id=1736725298&l=c552de1db2 Check out our coupon and sale promotion on Merchant Circle, too. Please remember that your donations may be tax deductible. Gaia is recognized as a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, per Internal Revenue Code. Please forward this announcement! Thank you for your on-going support and encouragement!

Pueblo will be experiencing unusually cold and dreary weather this weekend. Here are some suggestions for things to do:

***Visit the Robert Hoag Rawlings Public Library to view entertainer Cheech Marin's "The Chicano Collection" exhibition of works that depict urban life and the Chicano experience today. The exhibit is free and open to the public starting Saturday October 10 through Sunday November 22, 2009, Monday-Thursday, 9am to 9pm; Friday and Saturday, 9am to 6pm; and Sunday, 1pm to 5pm.

***Visit the Sangre de Cristo Arts Center to see the following exhibitions:

White Gallery - "Representing the West" Art Exhibition and Sale

King Gallery - International Watermedia XVI: Pikes Peak Watercolor Society

Hoag Gallery - Faces & Places: Selections from the Francis King Collection of Western Art

Regional Gallery - Gene Kloss Print Collection

3 rd Floor Foyer Gallery - Peter Marchand Photography

Boardroom - Susan Askey: Four Corners, Four Seasons, Four Directions

Hours: Tue-Sat , 11am to 4pm. Admission to the Sangre de Cristo Arts Center and Buell Children's Museum is $4 for adults and $3 for children. Members of the military and their families receive a $1 discount off of the admission price with a military ID. A discount of $5 off of a family membership is also available to military members. Members of the Arts Center to include Studio 210 members are admitted free. Free adjacent parking.

***Read a book, specifically join other Puebloans in reading "The House on Mango Street" by Sandra Cisneros and "Sun, Stone and Shadows: 20 Great Mexican Short Stories" as part of The Big Read: All Pueblo Reads. Kick-off events at Rawlings Public Library begin on Saturday, October 10 and include a Neighborhood Craft Project, contributing/learning about the Community Offrenda, hearing mystery writer Manuel Ramos speak at 12:30 p.m., participating in Art for Everyone: A Family Mexican Mural Workshop at 1:30 p.m. Many more events are scheduled between October 10 and November 13. Visit www.pueblolibrary.org or call 562-5600 for more information.

*** Take a walk, a GHOST walk! The 5th annual Ghost Walk through the Historic Union Avenue District finishes up October 9 th and 10th. Walking tours leave every 15 minutes from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. starting at La Placita of El Pueblo History Museum. In case of bad weather, the event will move indoors. The stories for this year's Ghost Walk are: Christmas Day Massacre Fort El Pueblo, Charles Goodnight, James Beckwourth, Theatre in the Old West, Pueblo's Hanging Tree, Cathay Williams - Buffalo Soldier, Dad's Flood Story, Telephone Operators' Heroics in the 1921 Flood, Baxter Bridge Shoot-Out, and La Llorona. Proceeds from the ticket sales will benefit the Hospitality Networks' support of homeless families, and the Domestic Violence Task Force's efforts to provide training for those who work with victims, and for anti-violence advertising in the community. The cost for tickets is $7 in advance and $8 at the event. Children ages five and younger are admitted free when accompanied by an adult. Advance tickets may be purchased at the Y.W.C.A., 801 N. Santa Fe Ave., and at El Pueblo History Museum.

Deb