Welcome to the Jagow Rest Stop
We have a
web camera setup to capture activity in our office which
updates once a minute as long as Chuck's computer is
on. The following weather information is updated
approximately every five minutes from our VantagePro
weather station located in our backyard.
For
detailed weather info, click on Red House Weather or Verdemont Observatory Weather.
Our
upstairs office is the primary daytime hangout of Chuck
and Lucy the cat, as well as whatever dogs and cats
follow you in. Occasionally you might just catch a
glimpse Chuck's head with some hair, or what is left of
it...
Red House Weather
Time of Data: 19 Jul 2024 11:42
Time of Data: 19 Jul 2024 11:42
The
Jagow Family
Chuck and Karen finally realized
their life long dream and have retired to Westcliffe
Colorado, Chuck's boyhood home. We lived in our Chesapeake
home
since moving there in 1987 from Bremerton Washington.
Before Bremerton, the Jagow family has lived in Newport
News Virginia, Groton Connecticut, Norwich Connecticut,
San Diego California and San Leandro California. All this
traveling was because Chuck was in the US Navy and every
couple of years it was off to somewhere new. Once
landing in Virginia they figured they would only be there
a little while, until Chuck found a job in Colorado, well
that ended up being 33 years. That was mainly due to
the fact that there were never any submarine Combat
Systems Engineering jobs in Colorado...
Our head geek who is responsible for this
mess is Chuck who lives and
breathes this computer stuff and has been married to
Karen, his beautiful wife of forty two years. Karen
retired as a manager from Barnes & Noble on Halloween
of 2020. She still likes her "Gothic" romance novels
and her cats more than the computers. Karen loves to
read more than anything except maybe playing games
on her phone and iPad while Chuck is out stargazing with
one of his telescopes.
The Jagow family has always included pets of one
species or another. The current zoo is comprised of five
dogs, Bella is the oldest, followed by Stewie, Ruby,
Scarlet and Ebenezer. The dogs are always on the
lookout for our three cats Jack, Lucy and our Maine Coon
Athena.
Rott'n
Paws Observatory was Chuck's primary source
of astronomical photography from 2005 through 2020 when
it was disestablished upon our
move from Virginia to Colorado in 2020 after we
retired. The Red House Observatory is at our
place in town while the future Verdemont Observatory
will be located on the land that Chuck's maternal great
grandparents homesteaded at the turn of the twentieth
century.
This is a
panoramic image I took of the Sangre De Cristo Mountains
of Colorado. The towns in the foreground are
Silvercliff and Westcliffe they kind of run together and
are hard to separate in this image, but there is about a
mile between them. I grew up here, in fact in
this image there is but a single instance of where a large
cloud's shadow is visible on the range. Just to the
right and below that cloud about half the width of that
cloud is a great open park, that is where our ranch
sits. This picture was taken on the first or second
of June of 2008, right after we had our mom moved to the
Canon Lodge in Canon City. If you think this picture
is nice, you
should see the full size image as this is one eighth
scale Both images are copyrighted 2009 by me,
Charles A. Jagow with all rights reserved.
Cheryl our daughter, rest her soul, died
of Lupus complications on February 21st, 2022. She
is survived by her three children Cameron, Casey, and
Sophia, her brother Michael as well as Karen and I.
She was forty two and working in Virginia Beach as an
office manager for an up and coming solar energy
company.She had formerly been employed by the Chesapeake
Juvenile Courts and the Commonwealth's Attorney of
Virginia prior to going to work at the solar folk's
place. She is missed every minute of every day by
everyone who knew her.
This entire web site is copyright (c) 1996
- 2022
C.A. Jagow
