NaBloPoMo: What do you do to celebrate a win?

I am participating in the NaBloPoMo challenge for May. It should be a fun one. It is titled: Play. Today’s topic is: What do you do to celebrate a win? For the past seven years or so we have played Forto’s Fantasy Football. In early August we gear up for the draft and peruse over a multitude of stats […]

Trails, trails and more trails!

I was a (wannabe) musher for a long time. My first time on the back of the sled was way back in the early 1990’s. I even moved a few times searching for snow–don’t we all? I lived in Minnesota where it is sometimes very cold and the winters can be brutal but often there […]

Holiday Pet Safety

My name is Robert Forto and I am the training director of Denver Dog Works and Alaska Dog Works. I am asked all the time about holiday do’s and don’ts from pet owners. While I always offer an article right around Christmas about training Christmas puppies I thought it would be wise to offer some tips to pet owners on […]

The old man check-up and no dum-dum’s!

Yep, I am becoming and old man. I had a visit at my doctor’s office today. Not any doc. He is a surfin’, snowboardin’, bleached hair, soul patch wearin’, ultra cool, Internal Medicine doctor. No, there is nothing wrong with my inner workings so if you are ready to jump on as my primary beneficiary […]

Date Night: Denver Downtown Aquarium

Michele lovin’ the huge shark tank! I am trying to enjoy every minute that I can with my wife, Michele before I head back to Alaska for the summer while she and I decide what to do with moving her and my daughter Nicole up. Last night was date night for the two of us. […]

Road Trippin: Evergreen Lake, Colorado

What is a vacation/road trip/work-cation without a day hanging out with your 14 year old daughter for lunch and a walk around a beautiful lake? Today, Nicole and I decided to get away from it all for a little bit and head up to the foothills to Evergreen Lake. Evergreen a beautiful little place with […]

Stranahans Whiskey: Knock your socks off, the Colorado way!

There is whiskey and then there is Stranahan’s. On my overly quick trip to Denver I had appointments with financial planners, the beginnings of becoming an old man check up at the doctor, a fantasy football football party that was three months late and visiting the family. But the highlight of the trip was the […]

Sticky Toffee Pudding

I know, I know, you are asking why is this crazy guy putting recipes on his blog AFTER Christmas when traditionally people cook and bake BEFORE the big holiday. Well, all I can say is you will see in the coming days the method to my madness. Today’s treat is from another Denver, CO restaurant […]

The Gluttonous Gobbler

Lets face it America ever since we hit Plymouth Rock on the Mayflower and broke bread with the Native Americans and formed the annual Feast-Day that we call Thanksgiving we have become a nation of gluttons. Think about it: what other day on the calendar can we gorge ourselves on everything and feel good about […]

31 Days of Horror: The Shinning (1980)

31 Days of Horror: Day 10 Movie: The Shinning (1980) Every year we have a tradition in the Forto house where we celebrate the greatest month of the year, October, with scare your socks off, hide under the covers, turn on all the lights, sleep with one eye open, fright fest, movie marathon every night […]