Boulder County

Halloween MonsterDash

Published October 27, 2019

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 3^rd 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

: altitude & thin air

: UNICORN Marty 🎃

: Colorado Halloween

: THEATRE tradition

: another FOSTER FOREVER HOME (great job Ash!)

: 27 & SNOW ❄️

: 10k race haul

: Halloween FINISHER

: 3rd place Masters

: record FOURTH storm

MonsterDash 10k

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season Swan Song

Published August 9, 2019

Chautauqua Auditorium

Month of rain, 2 months of sizzle – triple digit HEAT.

2019’s also been a solid season of MUSIC. Outdoor concerts, outdoor theatre. Rodeo & Shakespeare. Tim McGraw ‘Party Zone’ tickets, Diana Ross @ Red Rocks.

New addition to the tradition? Colorado Music Festival, Chautauqua Auditorium in Boulder. Warm summer night, Mahler Symphony No. 3, soul-reaching viola. String, my orchestra ‘Spirit Animal’. Violin, viola, bass. Completely memorized.

Downtown Street Faire. Bookend’d this year’s series. Second Friday of June, second Friday of August – concert first & last. More than music, love the energy, the life it breathes into my hometown’s downtown. Kids in the Bounce House, grandparents bunched close to Stage. BBQ, microbrews & Sweet Cow. Dig that too ❤️

Season shift, autumn. Kids in school. Sun drops sooner. Centaurus High band part of the outside evening beat. Friday nights & football. Goodnite Moon 🌙

September Update: Rocky Mountain Audio Fest. Bus, box lunch & show badges. Employer treated the entire Company. Thanks PS!

: Mahler Symphony No. 3

: end of Summer

: Goodnite Moon 🌙

: Thanks PS!

Louisville Street Faire (2019 season-end)

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summer grillin’ & Shakespeare

Published July 21, 2019

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.