02.25.10 GGs (Gunderson Girls)

2.23.10 Glittered landscape

The city is glazed with ice, and it is amazingly beautiful. Everything is crystallized and shimmers with silver and rainbow colors in the sun.

02.21.10 Brrrrrrrr

  Chilling wonders of our first ice storm.

02.17.10 City of Fountains

Splish Splash Fact: KC has more fountains than any other city but Rome ...

02.13.10 KC: Ahead of the trend

Awesome discovery via Margaret: Freedom Bank (ps - she is a founder).  Doubt most people find their bank worth writing about, but this one is. Their concept is out of the box: the concierge does your banking for you while you socialize, read or work in the lounge, enjoy  fresh Starbucks, cappuccinos, snacks and  daily newspapers from around the nation. My personal favorite: the 100 monthly periodicals - its like visiting the Tattered Cover in CO. Kylie and Adelaide have their own area with a Mac, a gaming station and lots more to help make them find excused to visit our bank.
Social networking is key here, whether during business hours or at an after hours patron party. This week, we'll be attending a cocktail party honoring one of the founders.

02.11.10 Striking Beauty

The winter here is dramatically beautiful.

02.05.10 Snow!

Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Kansas City is getting the most snow it has had in 30 years. 6 more inches predicted for Feb 8th, which likely means it will be the 4th day of no school here in KC for the GG's. (Gunderson Girls)

02.06.10 Christopher Elbow

What more is there to say about KC's Christopher Elbow chocolates than oh la la?!

01.31.10 KC Skyline

Kansas City, MO is the best part of the two KC downtowns, which sit side by side. It sits up on a hill, but that is hard to tell from these photos. The daytime shot is from Liberty Tower at the WWI Museum, looking down at Union Station. It is a must destination!

01.30.10 Following the mantra of Slow Food

Slow Food

 Margaret invited me as her guest to a slow food event, where I met some really great people. Japser Mirabile Jr. , a nationally famous chef from KC created some fantastic dishes including homemade mozzarella, his signature soup lobster cappuccino, and complimented by  Suzanne Frisse's incredible bread from Meadowlark Acres , and some incredible limoncello and cake from the hosts Mike & Christine Hursey of Casa Somerset .

01.22.10 Offer accepted!

Home sweet home? We are working on it. The best part: the views of the backyard look down at our own wooded "west one"  -  right in the city! Maybe one day we'll add a "north forty" out in the rolling green hills of the country ...

01.19.10 Shatto Dairy Farm

There is nothing more fresh and delicious around here than Leroy Shatto's Dairy Farm products. Just ask the girls about Shatto's signature rootbeer milk, or the ice cream, or the creamy half and half ...... its a true bonus of living here in KC.

01.17.10 Happy Birthday!

Birthday visitors; 3 night nosleepover in KC!

01.16.10 The Plaza

Primo Destination:The Plaza

12.31.09 Essie (98) keeps us up celebrating!

This is "Aunt" Margaret, Esther's daughter. Esther is Chris' Grandmother. They are both the life of any party they attend. Margaret and her husband Derito have taken good care of us since we arrived. 

Margaret has made all but the final cut for a new Fox reality show about cooking. It has been a fun process to experience with her. It is called Master Chef, starring Gordon Ramsey, and of course, we hope Margaret Bonicelli. Maybe you will get to know her too if she makes the cut. If not, you will meet the Bonicellis and "Essie" when you visit us here in KC.

12.28.09 Inside and out....

Pro tem starting point....

12.27.2009 Dramatic sunrise

Follow the yellow brick road.

12.07.09

Chris arrives to take over as the General Manager for the Kansas City division of Brown-Strauss Steel.

From the Kansas City Business Journal

Brown-Strauss Steel on Monday said it bought B-S Steel of Kansas Inc. for an undisclosed amount.
Though founded in Kansas City in 1905, Brown-Strauss moved its headquarters to Denver in 1983, the same year B-S Steel was founded. B-S Steel is based in Kansas City, Kan.
“This acquisition will help expand our footprint into the Midwest and open up a wide range of opportunities for us and for our customers,” Brown-Strauss President Michael Calvert said in a release. “Our access to an even larger range of mill sources worldwide will allow us to provide the most competitive pricing in the market.”
B-S Steel provides structural steel and tubing for the construction, petrochemical and automotive industries. Brown-Strauss Steel supplies wide flange beams and structural steel tubing. The former B-S Steel location gives Brown-Strauss seven locations throughout the country.
Calvert said the sales and support staff from B-S Steel will remain with the company.
Chris Gunderson was named as the new general manager of the Kansas City facility.

 

From the Denver Business Journal

Brown-Strauss Steel acquires Kansas company

Colorado's Brown-Strauss Steel said it has acquired the assets of Kansas-based B-S Steel Inc.

Aurora-based Brown-Strauss Steel is a distributor of wide flange beams and structural steel tubing.

B-S Steel is based in Kansas City, Kan. Brown-Strauss Steel will operate its location as its seventh site. Chris Gunderson of Brown-Strauss Steel’s Denver location will become the new general manager in Kansas City.

"This acquisition will help expand our footprint into the Midwest and open up a wide range of opportunities for us and for our customers," Brown-Strauss Steel President Michael Calvert said in a statement Monday.

The company currently operates in Colorado, California, Arizona, Utah and Washington state.

Brown-Strauss Steel was founded in Kansas City in 1905 and moved its corporate headquarters to Denver in 1983. It is a unit of New York-based Blue Tee Corp.

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