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| Day 39 Photo Album |
October 10, 2009
Since Wednesday the Arctic Blast has been hovering over Colorado, Nebraska, and Kansas, making snow and freezing rain. The temperature has been in the 20’s during the day, reaching a high of 47 a couple of times. It is discombobulating and frustrating, not to mention shockingly cold.
The baseball team in Denver, the Rockies, is in the playoffs for the World Series against the Philadelphia Phillies. Their game was called off tonight due to the weather. My sister and her friend are going to the game tomorrow and I don’t think she has a portable fire to carry with her. Adventure comes in all kinds of packages.
We did venture out into Boulder today along with many other dazed Boulderites to do routine shopping and errands. It seemed as though people were as shocked as I was to be in this deep winter state early in October.
For a grand treat, my sister’s friend invited us to his posh condo where the common rooms include gigantic gas fireplaces and wide-screen TVs with plush furniture and views of the Flatirons and Boulder foothills. We could have taken a swim on the roof or soak in the hot tub using the outdoor fire pit (also gas fired) but I passed up that opportunity and we settled in next to the fire to watch CU and University of Texas college football game while we chatted and ate food from the cafe on the ground floor of the facilities.
In the end, CU lost and our chat evolved to exposing the problems of the world, but couldn’t seem to solve them. Alas.
October 11, 2009
When the weather decides to settle in, it is best to cooperate. So I stayed another day with my sister. We took a drive around the freezing outskirts of Boulder. I believe we were north of Boulder, perhaps a bit northeast and northwest.
The trees were caught in the midst of turning color, frozen in time. The fog had caught up with me and joined forces with clouds and snow. Very strange.
It was great to spend more time in my sister’s cozy home with her two cats. As she went off to watch the Rockies and Phillies play baseball at 8:00 pm (not a typo) I stayed warm at home relaxing, learning how to live like a cat.
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