Weather Diversity - 09/21/06 06:37 PM
Talked with my daughter, Adrienne, today.  She’s in Denver, an hour east of here, and 4,000 feet lower.  She’s jealous.  They are having balmy weather.  We are getting snow.   She is a snowboarder.  I prefer golf.  So, in a sense, we should switch places.  But, we are otherwise where we want to be, and happy that we have the weather we do.  And also happy that we are so close to the other extreme.  Diversity is that close.  An hour away, and I could be playing golf, and she could be shredding. 
  She’ll visit soon.  And I will visit her.  … (6 comments)

Snow Place Like Home - 09/21/06 06:31 PM
At no time does this slogan of ours make more sense than at the first snow of the season.  So, as we near the end of this day of our first snow of 2006, it’s a good time to reflect.  Avid skiers and snowboarders are salivating.  Golfers and mountain climbers are groaning.  But, regardless, everyone knows that we live high in the Colorado mountains, that our ski resorts of Breckenridge, Copper Mountain, Keystone and Arapahoe Basin are the real reason that the majority of us live here.  If not for the skiing itself, then to support those who hang on for … (3 comments)

Roughing it, Colorado Mountain Style - 09/21/06 06:24 PM
Some of us mountaineers just like to rough it.  So, the Blue River mayor quit, not just when it was clear that her camp would lose the vote on paving, but also after she’d received some threats from neighbors who, well, like things just the way they are.  Then, within a couple of weeks from her resignation, she and her group withdrew the initiative.  Reasoning was that the quoted costs were too high.  Actually, stated too high.  She felt bids received were much higher than the work could actually be done for, so rather than sustain a defeat, she and her … (1 comments)

 
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