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Greetings from your Greeley apartment community!

With the Fall season around the corner, we are compiling a collection of our tenants’ favorite food and drink recipes.  Share your best kept secret with your neighbors, and pick up some new and creative suggestions!

For a chance to win a $25 gift card, submit your best recipe for a snack, appetizer, entree, or favorite beverage!

We will be creating a cookbook with all of the entries, and will have it available to share with everyone later this year!

Make sure to submit your recipe by September 30, 2020 to the leasing office or simply email it to the address below:

alang@summit.community

Have a great Labor Day weekend with your friends and family!

Sincerely,

Vickie and Keyri
Your Greeley leasing and property mgmt staff

Summer has arrived! Have you planned what hikes you want to tackle before snow falls again? Think we are being dramatic? Think again! Many of Colorado’s hikes are at 10,000 feet or more, meaning snowfall happens sooner. Summer is the perfect time to tackle those higher altitude hikes, so we’ve compiled some of our favorite hikes for consideration!

• Lost Lake via Hessie Trail: This hike is great for those who enjoy water. Along the approximately 4 mile loop, hikers will find a waterfall and access to a stream – a plus if you have dogs with you. Not to mention, Lost Lake itself is beautiful and surrounded by snow capped mountains (even in the summer).
• The Royal Arch Hike: The Royal Arch trail is a favorite to many. It’s a 3.5 mile trail with a steep incline, but it’s worth the climb. Hikers are rewarded with gorgeous views over Bluebell Canyon, the city of Boulder, and on a clear day even a peek into Denver.
• The Heart Lake Trail: This is a challenging hike at just under 9 miles, with a steep incline, but the descent to the lake basin is easier. The trail is not as heavily trafficked because of its difficulty. At a maximum elevation of around 11,000 feet, you are above the tree line and will be able to see for miles.
• Diamond Lake: This hike is in the Indian Peaks Wilderness and features creeks, small waterfalls and a look at the Continental Divide. It is a short hike, only 2.5 miles out and back. Diamond Lake also offers some great camping.
• Spruce Creek Loop: A 6 mile loop, Spruce Creek offers gorgeous views of the alpine lake. You will climb 1,700 feet in elevation. Located in Arapaho National Park, it is recommended that hikers arrive early to beat the crowds.

After you tackle one of these trails, stop by one of our locations and tell us about it!

We wanted to share a great blog post from Psychology today about the unique challenges we are currently facing with self isolation and quarantine.  Do you have some other unique suggestions to share?  Tell us on Facebook. We are wishing you all a happy and healthy 2020!

Here are a few things to consider. If you’re not in self-quarantine or isolation, you should seriously consider it. Transmission of the coronavirus is breathtakingly easy, and some medical experts say that the virus can survive on surfaces for up to three days. It needs to be left alone three days to start breaking down without disinfecting measures. This is why it’s important to not provide coronavirus “a ride” to its next vacation destination.

The models for what happened in China and what is happening right now in Italy and Spain are sobering. Social distancing of three or six feet is all well and good, but the issue of coming into contact with a family member or friend who has coronavirus but doesn’t know it (it can incubate up to nine days, experts say, and some younger people might not even be symptomatic but can still transmit it) should be taken very seriously. Plus, just because you are not over 60 doesn’t mean you should go out and potentially expose the elderly or other folks with compromised immune systems to coronavirus.

Cher did a 1980s public service announcement where she told sexually active persons to use a condom to prevent the spread of HIV. She intoned, “Don’t die of embarrassment.” That still applies to folks too “embarrassed” to not kiss grandma and other loved ones on both cheeks or shake their best friend’s hand even though he just returned from training with a lot of people out of state and flew in on a plane. When I think about your potential skin-to-skin contact with folks particularly susceptible to the virus (e.g., grandma, or your young nieces and nephews), the mantra could be updated to, “Don’t kill out of embarrassment.” Lecture over.

1. Phone a friend. There used to be a Bell telephone commercial jingle, “Reach out and touch someone.” (Hey, it was right after the swinging ‘70s). Instead of that, I’m recommending that you call, text, FaceTime, or Zoom someone you haven’t spoken to in a while. I texted a high school friend yesterday and the jokes picked up where they left off (he’s the one responsible for toilet paper being in such short supply). Think of this as a great opportunity to reconnect.
2. Work out at home. Can’t go to the gym? Cycle, and do calf extensions on the steps, and pushups and planks like there’s no tomorrow. I already met my fitness goals for 2020, but I guess I’ll be able to maintain them now, too.
3. Read five books that you’ve intended to but just didn’t have time. There’s enough time now. Just don’t break your reading glasses, unless you have a backup pair.
4. Find substitute TV programming now that all sports are suspended until further notice. Catch up on three, four, or more great shows that your friends have highly recommended. I hear The Good Place is worth a look. I haven’t seen it, but it’s on my watch list. If you’re into sci-fi/supernatural shows? Watch The Expanse (Amazon), The Outsider (HBO), and I Am Not Okay With This (NetFlix). Trust me now, and thank me later. (Have you seen Fleabag? Go to my analysis here to see if you’re up to it).
5. Write a poem or a Great American Novel. Tap your muse. In addition to blog posts, I plan to complete a book proposal and finish my second novel, if two weeks go to six, eight, or more.
6. Commune with nature. Walk around outside in the sun at a healthy distance from other humans (trails, forests, etc.). (I discussed the issue with a veterinarian, and there is no evidence that the next-door neighbour’s adorable pug can become infected with coronavirus). Exercise and naturally forming Vitamin D? What could be better?
7. Cook. Make a great YouTube recipe reality and create a meal to be proud of. It’s a good idea to stock up on pasta, rice, canned vegetables, and spices so that more recipes are within reach.
8. Start a betting pool on how much of a baby boom there’ll be due to all of this time on our hands with nothing else to do. It may put the spike from the Blizzard of ’78 to shame. Some of you may contribute to that boom. And why not? As long as neither of you tests positive (for anything), there are lots of good reasons to do it. Check out some of them here and here.

Written and posted by:  Kyle D Killian Ph.D., LMFT