Colorado Weather

So how about this for a quick change in weather? Yesterday was a beautiful day, in the low 80's, and then about 7:30 last night a cold front moved in so then this morning I wake up to an inch of snow and it is still SNOWING! Welcome to Colorado, you never know what to expect. And on occasion the weatherman may actually get it right.

I think this actually may be the earliest I have experienced snow in Denver, Mother Nature usually likes to save the first snow until Halloween. I thought I had experienced some bad weather Halloween's growing up in Michigan. It's amazing to me that generally the weather in Colorado is much nicer than Michigan but consistently year after year the weather on this one specific day of the year can be absolutely miserable.

But on the flip side I know I can look forward to a few 70 degree days in February. So this morning as I drive to church in the snow I will try to look forward to that.

"There is a cow in the parking lot"

So yesterday afternoon while at work one of the owner's of the firm walks by and says "Our cow is out in the parking lot if you want to see it. Karla (his wife) brought it by to get it ready for trick-or-treating." At first I thought this was some kind of joke and I was missing something. No, there really was a cow in the parking lot.




While we are all standing there in the parking lot looking at the cow one of my coworkers says to Roger, "So is there some sort of return on this investment? Does the cow increase in value?" Actually they intend to breed her and sell the babies. I have never heard of such a thing, I mean other than people who have farms or ranches. I guess they keep her at a farm and they are hosting a trick or treating thing, hence the getting ready for trick or treating.

So yesterday I got to pet a cow at work. I didn't know cows could have that much hair. And she drools A LOT. Then last night some of my fellow BSF leaders were asking me what breed of cow she is. Tell me how a girl who grows up in the suburbs of Detroit would know the different breeds of cows.

All About Baseball

Because I like hockey a lot of people assume that I watch all sports. For the most part that is not true. I do enjoy watching the Olympics and on occasion tennis or some other sport in the playoffs. But I have never really gotten into baseball, or at least not until this year. The MLB playoffs started a week ago and I watched at least a couple innings of all 4 match-ups in round 1. Why this year?


It is at least partially because the Colorado Rockies made it to the playoffs this year for the first time since 1995 and only the second time in their history. It is about all anyone in Denver is talking about and it is exciting to see this team that no one believed in succeed. But why I am watching every other series as well or why did I stay up last Saturday night to see if the Rockies would pull off the 1st round sweep? Or why I am watching the game now rather than finishing my BSF (which I know means I will be up late to get it done)? I am not sure why I am watching all this baseball but I can appreciate the ability to multi-task during a baseball game and still have a good idea of what is going on. I have tried many times during a hockey game but for the most part with hockey I am either watching it or it is on in the background. But tonight I have learned that I cannot do BSF and watch a baseball game. For whatever the reason, I am enjoying watch the Rockies this year. Who knows, maybe I will become a football fan? But don't hold your breath on that one and for now...

GO ROCKIES!!