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Outdoor grillin’, Pups playing, card games welcomed.

Colorado SUMMER @ Ash & Tom’s digs.  Dessert, my contribution.  Lemon meringue pie, chocolate-caramel brownies, Stephen’s homemade Boston Crème PILE (first attempt; tasted better than it looked — LOL>Colorado SUMMER!  FINALLY!

Took a while to get here (lotta rain this year) but the short season between Spring & Fall hath arrived.  Time  to unplug, text less, stop logging miles, attend outdoor concerts/plays & soak up some vitamin D.

AND of course…the annual honey-do list 😊

— new kitchen lights (one hadn’t worked in 5 years)

— garbage disposal gone (8 years dysfunctional, why replace? compost & enjoy TWO sinks)

— haircuts, both me and Pup (it was time)

— plates for the new truck (all legal now, first payment made)

— new reading specs (Ash shamed me outta my Ben Franklin frames)

— another try at keeping greens alive on the front porch (green thumb struggle – not my Michaela, gal’s found her niche.  EVERYTHING grows for M.  Sharing an Icelandic vacation next month.  Yay!)

Summer Shakespeare at CU’s Mary Rippon Theatre.  Poisonings, stabbings, noble warfare – ’til this year, a comedy, my first.  Viola disguised as Cesario, is shipwrecked – and finds love.  Twelfth Night, a new fave.

Summertime, summertime.  Summ, summ, summertime ♪♫♬

Red Rocks next week, Frontier Days week after.  LOVE LOVE my Colorado life ❤️

 

honey do list (US, idiomatic) a collection of requests, usually by a spouse for a partner to perform a series of tasks, assignments, or jobs dealing with the maintenance of a household.

 

 

Shakespeare Festival 2019

 

 

303 is more than Colorado’s first phone exchange.

new 3-0-3 branding

Livin’ 303 means spending portion of your day, every day outdoors.  Our state is big, diverse – it’s the American West – our lifestyle, love of everything outdoors & our politics reflect that background.  Whether working cattle on Colorado’s Eastern Plains or skiing the Western Slope – you’re doing it outdoors.  They call our state PURPLE; independent voters now outnumber registered Democrats/Republicans combined.  NO local love for a DC federalist government deciding which days our National Parks are open or closed.  Outside of Denver, neighbors still help neighbors, folks still settle disputes outside of court.  We’re 303.  We love the high mountains/thin air, heavy spring snow, columbine blue every summer.  The mountains center us, not our politics.

3-0-3 weekend.  March 3rd forecast, SNOW.  Good weekend to hunker down, long-walk Ro, diner dine AND entertain guests.  Stephen in from Philly; we’d continue our seasonal theatre tradition with Ash & Tom Friday night.  Nunsense at Candlelight Dinner Theatre (near Loveland).  Show not a fave – jokes/prat falls/dialogue ’90’s dated.  ‘Sister Act’ without Whoopi Goldberg.  Dinner however shined.  Salmon theme (throwback to Catholic ‘fish only’ Fridays).  FAMILY time treasured.  Easy to get caught up in our own comings & goings.  Late evening SNOW.  Saturday, Sunday — Monday too ❄️

Saturday morn, geese huddled/precip sheltering.  Quiet peaceful tug ’round Hecla with Ro.

Breakfast with Stephen; LOVE me some diner food. Lazy walk downtown Louisville.  Plenty of parking.  All the other crazies following Interstate 70 plows, it’s 3-0-3 season.  In March, that’s chair lifts & skis.  Fresh powder ⛷️

Sunday morning church.  If you can play, you can pray.

Colorado weekend staycation.  Good to be home.  LOVE LOVE my Colorado life ❤️

 

 

3-0-3 Staycation

 

 

3 flights of stairs, post-marathon shower, quick one-hour nap.  Attic B&B kinda loses its charm after running 26 miles.  Just saying.  LOL>

Historic homes, old churches, seaside path ‘round Government House (home to PEI’s Lieutenant Governor).  From there walked inland, downtown Charlottetown.  City Hall, University Park, St. Dunstan’s Basilica.  HUGE fan of cathedral architecture.  Gothic block buildings, high overreaching arches, stained glass artistry.  Oft adapts character of the city you’re visiting.  Ornate ship anchor molding in this provincial capital’s church home.  Quiet/peaceful/hushed/stunning.  Great place to reflect & give thanks.

Dinner reservations at 5; theatre tickets 7 o’clock show.

But first, homage paid to everything Anne – at the Anne of Green Gables Store.  Dolls, DVDs, postcards, magnets, candy, entire book series (of course) – all centered on the red-headed orphan from PEI.  When on Prince Edward, gotta/hafta/must.

Sunday-nite FOOD FEAST @ 23 Queen St: half-dozen Oysters, Cioppino entrée.  FIVE LOCAL varieties of Oyster.  Tomato herb broth, crusty bread.  Mussels, haddock, clams & shrimp – Cioppino, what’s not to LOVE?  GET in my BELLY!  WOW meal.

LOVE LOVED ‘Anne & Gilbert’ at the Guild.  Perfect Avonlea finish to crazy FULL day.  Highly recommended!

Goodbye PEI.  Lighthouse sunrise, hot B&B breakfast, noon flight off the Island.  I HEART the Land of Anne ❤️