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 Photo: @FB Mancos Opera House One day this week while walking around Mancos, I couldn’t help but notice how many construction projects were going on. A crew was working on the front of the Mancos Opera House, taking down an old facade that had been built in the 1950s. The plan is to rebuild how the building looked originally, with glass-windowed store fronts. A half-a-block down Grand Avenue, another crew was working on the exterior of the Mancos Inn & Hostel. A couple of blocks to the North, the new owners of the historic Bauer House appear to be installing a new exterior staircase to the second floor. And just around the corner, the Mesa Verde Motel is undergoing a makeover, complete with newly renovated and styled rooms, and hand-painted murals designed by Arizona artist Saint No. And that was just on a short walk about town. Closer to our neck of the piñon and junipers, neighbors are picking up construction on two new homes. The only project I don’t look forward to is the annual road construction projects with their traffic detours and slow-downs. But that is a small price to pay to live in an area with great roads and beautiful scenery.
Week 16
At the Harmony Barn, all the windows and doors have been delivered and most of the windows have been installed. What a difference light makes! Drywall is going up, and custom kitchen cabinets are being constructed off-site. Our contractor Patrick’s wife Danielle helped me choose paint colors. I thought it would be fairly simple. Black, white, and a blue for the kitchen cabinets. The blue was easy, but there are SO many variations of black, and so many more variations of white, all of which changed slightly in different lights. It was mind boggling. It now seems like reality that we will be open for business in July when we have a small group booked for a few days of writing time. If you are interested in booking the barn for a gathering, drop me a line at [email protected].
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Jody Chapel & Mark Stevens
In January 2020, my husband and I bought a barn on 10 acres adjacent to our home property near Mancos, Colorado, and asked ourselves, "What do we do with it now? Since then we have renovated the top floor into a vacation rental and are in the process of renovating the bottom/main part of the barn into a gathering space. Join us on our journey! 
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