2019 Bolder Boulder Elite race

                                           https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOv32lfMyKI


     They make it look so easy!

      This is why I run it:

                                            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNsqiH_XP3E

Old white GOP dinosaurs

Kodi Lee Rocks

       I don't know if you watch "America's Got Talent" on NBC, but you need to watch this clip of  Kodi Lee.  He is a blind, autistic, musical savant, and watching this will make your entire week.

                           https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=497&v=pDPdRYF7hTQ


     I love this kid and his entire family.



PS, this dance troupe from Mumbai was also just so awesome.  Give it a watch.

                                        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWCDJnnxOSY


It's a feel good day!

My Memorial Day

     Yesterday was the 41st annual Bolder Boulder 10k held in Boulder, Colorado.  There were over 50,000 entrants of all ages.  The youngest was 3, but there are many, many older people as well.  By older, I mean people even older than me....LOL...people in their 70s, 80s, 90s.
     It is basically a 6.2 mile party, mostly run in residential areas.  There are bands every few blocks, slip and slides and trampolines on lawns,  kids with super-soakers, residents handing out snacks, belly-dancers, bagpipers and so many costumes.  You forget you are getting exercise. You finish in Folsom Field stadium with thousands of people watching and cheering making you feel like an athlete.
     It is extremely well organized, by necessity.  The 50,000 people are separated into 95 different wave starts... the qualifying waves, running waves, jogging waves, run/walk waves and walk waves.  I'm in one of the many jog waves.  And they have multiple buses running to Boulder so people don't have to drive ....it is time consuming to take the bus but oh so convenient.
     After the race, the elite international runners have their race.  It is so cool to see the great runners up close.
     Finally there is a Memorial Day tribute.  Yesterday they honored Gold Star families.  As always, the National Anthem was played on trumpet by a 94 year old survivor of the Battle of the Bulge....one of the Lucky Eleven.  Taps, 21 gun salute, color guard on mounted horseback, the swearing in of Colorado inductees to all branches of service, skydivers representing all branches of service, and an air force jet-flyover are always moving.

Me and friend Sabrina waiting before the start

Here is a Bolder Boulder race highlights video if you are interested.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NVWZzxMGXA

And here is a video of the Memorial Day Tribute
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G1mVu64aLM.

     We had a terrible hail storm overnight. 6 hours later I woke up to drifts of hail on the ground.  I haven't been out to check damage yet.  Usually August is our bad hailstorm month.  It is starting early this year.

     Update, I went out for a sunny recovery walk/jog with dog.  It turned out to be a wet jog in the rain/sleet.  At this rate my lawn will be knee high by the 4th of July, as I never can get out to mow it.. You gotta love that wet muddy dog smell that permeates the house.

Thunder and lightening, we had some of that last night.

I hope you are having a good Memorial Day weekend....

Stay healthy on the inside and it will show on the outside.

Strong women don't have attitudes. We have standards.

I saw the above quote on FB today and had to share.

Enough already!

3pm and it is snowing again.   Argggg.

Runner funny for the day

I tempted fate by buying sandals on Saturday. Colorado---You are never boring.

     Dreaming of a white Memorial Day!


     Picture 1, 7:30 pm on May 20......

     Same view, 6 AM May 21st.

     This is why I never get to enjoy blooming crab apples or ornamental pears or lilacs in my yard, or peonies. I may have a lot of broken branches to clean up.  It does camouflage the tall grass and weeds nicely, though. And the dog loves it.
      Tomorrow I'm scheduled to have the sprinkler system turned on.  Do you think he'll be able to even find the sprinkler heads?

Colorado has always been a good place to find what you're made of.......John Hickenlooper

It's springtime.....plant a seed.

It was 84 degrees near the Arctic Ocean as CO2 hit its highest level in human history this weekend.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/weather/topstories/it-was-84-degrees-near-the-arctic-ocean-this-weekend-as-carbon-dioxide-hit-its-highest-level-in-human-history/ar-AABlBAQ?fbclid=IwAR1ney1USp2sl6aquoDMq2v9_ocO4bKDFVIYHU_GE7L29EnHPqdWCS6mY3k

Smile for the week

Ahimsa.

Love, love, love this......

Temps are warming.

     It is hot in the sun.  Grasshoppers are everywhere.  Thank goodness for dog-water fountains (and people water fountains,too). I've only seen garter snakes as of yet.  YAY.

Just open your eyes and you won't be able to unsee or unknow what is being done. Become an ethical vegan.

Aromatic

     The aroma of wild plums that I remember from my childhood....

     Here they are from afar.....they seem to stretch on forever along a little creek....which I have appropriately named Plum Creek, borrowing from Laura Ingalls Wilder.

     Another sign of spring, they have turned on the doggie water fountain at the park so I won't have to carry water for Charleigh-girl.

All the damn time........

Aren't time zones amazing?

In Australia it's tomorrow.

In Europe it's tonight.

And in the US it's 1942 where minorities, women, and LGBT are still under assault by old white men.

So true today.

Que Sera.... what will be

It is what it is........


     RIP actress and animal activist Doris Day.
     This  song, her trademark song, was one of the first songs I remember. It is from 1956.

                                        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZbKHDPPrrc&app=desktop



     Fun unrelated fact, here is another of the songs I remember, this one from 1958.

                                       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X9H_cI_WCnE


   

I'm immensely grateful for the precious gift my mother has given me. She is my hero today and every day. Steven Cojocaru

Happy Mother's Day to my Mom!

     I should have done yard work and mowed my lawn today, but it is Sunday and Mother's Day, so long hot bubble bath it was. It was so worth it.

     My scheduled hike for today is cancelled due to muddy/snowy trails.  It'll happen sometime.

Note today's weather, thus the laziness........

“Show me a hero, and I'll write you a tragedy.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald

     I have been reading about and listening to videos of Kendrick Castillo.  His death is a tragedy....the world desperately needs people like him!  He and the Parkland kids from Florida do provide a ray of hope, however.  It falls to their generation to save us.  The rest of us have let them down. We have abdicated our responsibilities.  I am truly ashamed of my generation and the current criminal administration we have allowed to take power.

Sometimes real superheroes live in the hearts of children.

I can relate....

Knock on wood.....I just heard there has been another school shooting here in Highlands Ranch, CO.  Information is sparse as of yet.  I fully hold the NRA, the GOP, and president trump responsible.

I saw this on FB today. It really hits home.

Let's fix her up, folks.

Nothing important comes with instructions........James Richardson

New report.....nearly one million species at risk due to humans.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/one-million-species-threatened-with-extinction-because-of-humans-warns-un-report/ar-AAAY35M?li=BBnbcA1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbEzyQ4Rapo

Terrestrial Biomass

Do you notice a problem here?

Courage is knowing it might hurt and doing it anyway. Stupidity is the same. And that is why life is hard.......Jeremy Goldberg

Took me a second......LOL

maybe because I'm not there yet.

Deer Creek Canyon Park

     I had an awesome hike this morning on a gorgeous day.  People are out everywhere enjoying spring. It was so nice after the 3 gloomy damp chilly days earlier in the week. 

A day without sunshine is like, you know, night.......Steve Martin

May the 4th Be With You!

and I would definitely buy a pair of those pants!

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

     I tell myself this even though I am skipping a race today because I am unprepared and don't want to drive to an unknown town by myself. Cowardice.  But I am going hiking with friends instead....so at least there's that.