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The rule in Colorado – never before Mother’s Day.  April showers brings May SNOW (at least in Colorado).

Easter Bunny RIP ✞

Couple days in the 70’s, late-calendar Easter holiday & a non-travel HOME weekend.  Neighbors are gonna comment.  Spring planting on the down low.  Bulbs yes, flowering plants no.  Don’t care.  It’s MY stoop, MY front porch to Spring up.  Global warming means seasons are shorter, no more snow at 5500ft – just the high mountains thru mid-June.  Right?  And heck, it’s EARTH Day.  Gotta/hafta/must PLANT.

Uprooted the holly bush, replaced with wild roses.  Not a Colorado variety – again, counting on the big global BAKE to keep ’em alive (didn’t save the holly after 5 years).  Absolutely NO idea what I purchased for my barrel planters – big, GREEN, full of blooms, screamed ‘SPRING’.  Check, done.  Come on board.

I always plant Snapdragons.  BORING.  Provide some colour, grow in our arid climate.  Not crazy vibrant    but survive our summer temperature swing, low 40’s to upper 90’s.  No humidity, nothing to dial in the barometer.  Notta lotta clouds either, mountain SUNSHINE 300 days a year 🌞

Not gonna waste more words & pretend I’m a horticulturalist.  Just celebrating the season.  It’s really really GOOD to watch things grow.  Slow down each morning, 10-minute water ritual before the work day start.

Triggers something in the brain.  Hope.  New ideas.  Calm, steady.  Peace, nurture.

Hopefully, my newest plant babies will survive the late season white.

Happy Earth Day! 🌎

Dig.  Plant.  Watch something GROW!

 

 

May SNOW 2019

 

 

Denver ✈ Chicago ✈ Manchester

 

HAIL!

Lack of airports, lack of marathons.  Vermont’s a gem.  Gotta work at it to appreciate it.

5:40 flight to Chicago, 1:35AM arrival in Manchester [3-hour Vermont drive next day].

Dropped off Ro at lunch, left 30 minutes early for DIA.  Spent that time on a 5-mile stretch within Boulder city limits.  Glad I left early, not my usual.  Spring storm forecasted/poised to hit Boulder – also not the usual (generally we’re shielded by the Flatirons, our surrounding peaks).

Skies opened, HAIL.  Flash flooding; sheets of water poured down Foothills [Parkway].  Weather app said 90 minutes more.  No time to wait, I’ve gotta flight to catch.  Argh 🙁

Weekend prediction: RAIN… ’tis the season ☂

 

 

Hail coming down in boulder

3:59 PM – May 18, 2018 · Boulder, CO

 

Paul Aiken✔@PaulAikenBDC

 

A storm struck Boulder County on Friday afternoon, flooded streets, dropped heavy localized hail and was accompanied by lightning, which struck a Gunbarrel apartment complex and started a fire.

 

The National Weather Service put much of the eastern part of the county under a flash flood warning for about 90 minutes, and the county remains under a flash flood watch until midnight Saturday as more rain — some of it heavy — is expected along the Front Range and eastern plains.

 

NWS Meteorologist Kyle Fredin said that 1-inch hailstones were reported in south Boulder and nearly 3 inches of rain fell in the northeastern part of the city, causing flooding in some streets.

 

Local meteorologist Matt Kelsch wrote on his blog on Friday that parts of the Front Range are “in for a lot of rain today and Saturday, with wet snow above the treeline.”

 

“Watch out for localized street flooding and the potential for creeks to spread out of their channels in some places,” he wrote. “The Saturday morning Farmers Markets may be in for the second wet Saturday in a row.”

 

Last week of 2 Hagas in the office.  Ash said her goodbyes Wednesday, the future in-laws were first to arrive [from New Jersey].  PS gifted the couple a [Sprout] integrated amplifier & set of [ELAC] speakers.  Very nice.  Many thanks!

Sunday wedding.  Family arrived on multiple flights mid-day Friday/Friday nite/early Saturday/Saturday afternoon.  Hit the highway Saturday morning, easy 2 hour drive – destination: Silverthorne CO, elevation 9,035ft.  BIG smile ❤

Stopped at ‘The Happy Cooker’ in Georgetown for late breakfast/early lunch.  Window seat.  During the meal, saw an unusual number of pack mules.  As luck would have it, BEST LOCATION to watch today’s Burro Race.  Finish Line literally across the street.  Promptly paid my tab & watched the day’s first finishers.  LOVE LOVED it – start of what’s undoubtedly gonna be a SUPER FUN weekend!

 

13th Annual Historic Georgetown Railroad & Mining Days Pack Burro Race

Georgetown, Colorado

 

The Western Pack Burro Ass-ociation seeks to continue a great sport begun by Colorado’s miners.

 

Approximately 8-9 miles from Georgetown to Empire and back. Remember to follow traffic pattern around the roundabout, yield to downhill runners, and stick around after you’re done to check for ticks.  And, there will be a prize at the end of the race for the runner who picks up the most trash on the course!

 

Entry fee: $50

Weigh-in time:  9:00 am

Start time:  11:00 am

Race Director: Bill Lee (Red Tail) – 720-234-8200 – laughingvalleyranchco@gmail.com

 

Back on I-70, cold drizzle turned to SNOW.  4 days ‘til June – more importantly, 30 hours before the OUTDOOR Wilpiszeski wedding begins.  Snow is good luck, right?

Hotel check-in, afternoon altitude run (’cause every day’s a run day).  Met up with Ash & Tom at ‘Wilp Manor’, the in-laws’ Airbnb mansion rental.  Rehearsal dinner followed soon after at Dam Brewery in nearby Dillon.

FAM-FEST tomorrow – hanging with Mom, my siblings & their families first-half Sunday.

3pm pictures, 5pm WEDDING!  Weather Forecast: SUNSHINE ☀

 

 

Georgetown Burro Race

 

Memorial Day weekend SNOW