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Virus life officially seized hold our State, overnight.  Saturday I attended dinner theatre.  Sunday’s message: all public gatherings over 50 people cancelled.  6 feet social distance, prior day’s PSA tag – now California’s ‘shelter-in-place’ term added to the vernacular.

Restaurants join stadium events (& NBA basketball).  ALL restaurants.  Crazy.  Unimaginable.  It’s this secret disease that’s nowhere in my County – only a handful of cases in the entire State – but now, regularly reading government jargon to determine coworkers’ fate.  Can we work, can we not?  Manufacturers, currently YES but need to full-court transition 50% of Staff to roles from HOME.  Cisco & Zoom, more new words.

Every day, 4pm speech from the Governor.  Every day, a new ‘must not’ rule.

Enter CORONA time.  Dropped Stephen at D.I.A, flying home to New Hampshire.

Next task: grocery HOARDING.  As a guy with 2 vegetables & a condiment on his fridge walls, HUGE MIND SHIFT.  Biggest fail?  Waiting ‘til Sunday to shop.  Shelves almost bare.  No-name pasta sauce & a case of beans.  Outside-lined 7am, Saturday following.  Fog/light snow – at a WALMART, 30 minutes away.  We hear they have trucks bringing provisions while grocery stores remain empty/supply chain awaiting.  CRAZY.  Feed into the hysteria – but, what if.  What if they’re right?

2 marathon weekend, both events cancelled.  Flights/hotels.  Disruption, disappointment, FEAR.

March 15th.  BEWARE the Ides of March… and COVID-19.

 

 

 

 

Shelter-in-Place’ essential activities, according to the order:

  • Engaging in or performing tasks essential to health and safety, or to the health and safety of family/household members.  This includes pets.  Examples include picking up medicine, visiting a doctor.
  • Obtaining necessary supplies or to deliver supplies to others.  Things like groceries count here.
  • Going for a run, hike or other outdoor activity, as long as proper social distancing is observed.
  • To care for a family member or pet in another household.
  • To perform work at an essential business (see below) or perform minimum basic operations.

What about other businesses?

  • minimum activities to maintain the value of the business’s inventory, ensure security or related functions
  • minimum activities to facilitate employees being able to continue to work remotely from their residences

 

Christmas in Georgetown

Chestnuts roasting on an open fire?  After today… been there, done that.  Song might be more nostalgic than the actual taste.  Ick.  Next year, a second try at fruitcake 😊

Christmas in Georgetown… been long on my Colorado to-do list.  Nestled along the Divide, easy access off I-70.  Hot chocolate, homemade bread, hearty omelet.  ‘Happy Cooker’ breakfast.  Main Street Georgetown decked Old School Victorian.  Chestnuts roasting ($5/bag), horse-drawn wagons, local mountain stores all a bustlin’.

High noon.  Lined to watch another tradition (60+ years)… the town’s St. Lucia procession.  Children dressed in Christmas past, wreath-adorned heads.  One girl chosen to pass thru with traditional candles.  Well done.  LOVE LOVED.

Purchases made, strudel consumed.  Quick walk-thru the Museum of Miniatures (think: doll furniture).  Motored home before ski-traffic snarls our lone east-west highway.

Dinner theatre evening.  Holiday Inn.  Singing, dancing, White Christmas ♪ ♫ ♬

Whatta weekend!  holiday spirit OVERLOAD 🎄❄️🎅

 

 

Christmas in Georgetown

 

Each December the town of Georgetown transforms into a bustling Christmas scene reminiscent of Christmas of long ago.  Thousands come to this tiny mountain town to experience a traditional holiday where Christmas hasn’t changed in 100 years: roasted chestnuts, holiday shopping, horse-drawn wagon rides through historic Georgetown, and wonderful sights and smells.  Visitors enjoy appearances by St. Nicholas in his traditional dress and the daily procession of the Santa Lucia. Carolers in Victorian costume, dancers, and other family entertainment provide hours of memorable performances.  Adorned with lights and Christmas greenery and blanketed with snow, the quaint, historic town of Georgetown, Colorado has been a Christmas tradition for generations of Colorado families.

 

He did the Mash, he did the MonsterDash.  the MonsterDash.  It was a graveyard smash… ♫ ♬ ♭

 

Halloween 2019 – been a crazy snowy one this year in Colorado.

SATURDAY.  First marathon-free weekend since mid-August.  Kicked off with a trail run/hike in Bear Canyon.  Mud/ice/snow littered but GREAT to be outside, get some altitude, soak up the thin air.

Post run?  Dinner theatre with Ash & Tom.  Mamma Mia!  SUPER fun, campy.  LOVED LOVED!  Mamma Mia Mai Tai’s & an ABBA sing-a-long storyline.  Chiquitita, Waterloo, Winner Takes it All… and of course, Dancing Queen.  FAMILY quarterly tradition.  Home before season’s THIRD blast ❄️

SUNDAY.  Louisville’s Halloween-themed MonsterDash.  Afternoon start/stop in Community Park.  Cold-motivated to a 3rd place old-person [Masters] finish.  Get out & get it done.  LOL>

11-year history: rain never ever, temps in the 60’s.  Well not THIS year.  27 & SNOW.  Brrr…

Post run?  Hunkered indoors.  Fireplace.  Lasagna.  Couch-watched the biggest flakes with Pup ❤️

MONDAY.  4WD to work; tight 12 hours between storms.  A record FOURTH October storm Tuesday/Wednesday.  Foot of snow, sub-zero windchill.  Yikes!  More trick than treat.

  Daily Camera Retweeted  #Boulder has received 11.2 inches of snow during this storm so far

Halloween’rs:  Grab your EPIC pass.  Lifts opening before Thanksgiving this season – earliest ski start in 22 years.  Keystone, A Basin, Loveland, Winter Park, Eldora.  Colorado HOLIDAY TREAT 🎃⛷️

 

MonsterDash Louisville

October 27, 2019   Results presented by SVE SoCal and timed by SVE SoCal

Participants: 238  Last Updated: 10/27/2019 4:55:41 PM

 

1162     KEENAN HAGA    00:53:21     10K     M     08:36 min/mile

 

 

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