Digging rewirement.
Bro called during last week’s Appalachia journey & asked if I could travel to Kansas City, attend a show with my Mom & Sis (& keep it quiet). Middle of week, Wednesday? Hmm… no work constraints, just a matter of reserving a kennel spot for Ro. Absolutely!
Weekend marathon in New England — could reschedule departing flight from St Louis (instead of Denver) & spend a day with Sis. Rewirement getting better & better 🙂
Show was a big hit –‘though I think we could have better tempered the surprise. Every 30 minutes another child randomly appeared. Seemed more like a family intervention as we all gathered around Mom in the hotel lobby. LOL> Honestly just amazed I could keep my mouth shut. I’m not great with secrets — & Bro did an incredible job with this one!
Morning miles with Sis, family breakfast goodbye, 4 hours highway to St Louis.
Meanwhile… Nor’easter caused my marathon to be cancelled & hurricane-winds forecasted for my Colorado home. Should’ve stayed in Kansas City! LOL> Lost minimal food during our 42-hour power outage — thanks Mom for prayers — used time to formalize upcoming week’s training block & catch-up on sleep.
Bear Peak hike (altitude training), NCAR hill repeats, a SOLAR eclipse — then 5 hours Friday to Fruita, on Colorado’s Western Slope.
Trail day tomorrow. 10-day break from marathoning, ready ready ready to run.
Desert RATS 50K (Racing Across The Sand), an UTMB qualifier.
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- FAMILY outing in KC
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- morning miles w Sis
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- 42 hours darkness
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- training block RESUMES
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- BALD eagle
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- Bear Peak climb
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- NCAR hill repeats
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- DOGS ONLY patio
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- ECLIPSE Day 2024
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- Desert RATS registration
KC to Fruita
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!
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- gotta/hafta PLANT
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- front porch ‘SPRING up’
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- dog SMILE ❤️
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- April 29th ❄️
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- baby it’s COLD outside ♪♫♬
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- May 9th ❄️
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- rabbit PATROL 🐇
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.”
