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October 11½, 2016 in 175 more words
EMBIGGENABLE FLOOR SHOW PICTURES Hello everyone – I mentioned elsewhere in these shenanigans that I’d been putting distressed hickory hardwood flooring in my kitchen, living room and hall. Yesterday I...
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October 12, 2016 in 4,008 words
Miguel and I went for a walk yesterday And today it’s raining and cold, so we’re inside. You may recall my September 26th post where I walked across the stones in one of the ponds at Golden Ponds...
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October 13, 2016 in 3,714 words
Young Love THIS DAY IN HISTORY: OCTOBER 13TH- THE ALMANAC AND THE SPY This Day In History: October 13, 1792 Way back on October 13, 1792, when George Washington was serving his first term as...
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October 14, 2016 in 4,085 words
What’s the best horror film of the 21st century? Is there a way to use ratings, scores, user input, and other analytics to define the single “best” film? It’s uncertain but at least one man set out to...
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October 15, 2016 in 3,776 words
Spotify Silences Vulfpeck’s Silent ‘Sleepify’ Album The silent listening party is over for Vulfpeck. For about seven weeks, the Los Angeles-based groove band reaped payouts from streams of its album...
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October 16, 2016 in 3,760 words
“Let Them Eat Cake“ Say what you will about her, Marie Antoinette never actually uttered the words “Let them eat cake.” We have that on the authority of biographer Lady Antonia Fraser, who spoke on...
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October 17, 2016 in 4,402 words
Mountain Flower Urban Goat Dairy Mountain Flower Goat Dairy is a sustainable agricultural project in downtown Boulder, Colorado. We are a demonstration and working goat dairy that brings goats to...
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October 18, 2016 in 5,285 words
Thousands of ‘scrotum frogs’ mysteriously dying Peruvian authorities want to know why more than 10,000 endangered frogs living near Lake Titicaca have suddenly died. The Titicaca Water Frog is...
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October 19, 2016 in 4,050 words
Cars of Futures Past – 1901 Lohner-Porsche Semper Vivus and Mixte Ask a casual observer to name the first hybrid automobile, and the responses are likely to be either the Toyota Prius (initially...
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October 20, 2016 in 4,292 words
Modernization of Century-Old Hydro Facility Yields Rich History When the Boulder Canyon Hydroelectric Facility was built in the steep, forested mountains between Boulder and Nederland, Colo., in 1910,...
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October 21, 2016 in 4,040 words
MOUNTAIN FLOWER DAIRY An Urban Goat Dairy in Boulder, CO RAW MILK SHARES Herd-share membership: There is a $15.00 one-time fee to become a member of the herd-share by purchasing an interest in the...
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October 22, 2016 in 4,298 words
Longmont Sugar Beet Factory Part I Finally, the northeast Colorado sugar beet factory tour continues, after a few months off! I was waiting for a hard-to-find reference book called “The Great Western...
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October 23, 2016 in 4,666 words
100 Blocks a Day Most people sleep about seven or eight hours a night. That leaves 16 or 17 hours awake each day. Or about 1,000 minutes. Let’s think about those 1,000 minutes as 100 10-minute blocks....
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October 24, 2016 in 4,274 words
Nervous? THIS DAY IN HISTORY: OCTOBER 24TH- OVER A BARREL This Day In History: October 24, 1901 Anna Edson Taylor was the first adventurer to take the plunge over Niagara Falls in a barrel who lived...
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October 24, 2016 in 4,487 words
The job market in the United States is constantly shifting—especially in small towns that were once totally reliant on large factories for jobs. While politicians focus on failing industries, things...
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October 26, 2016 in 3,984 words
Preserving land with plein air painting An estimated 5.2 million people will visit Boulder County Open Space and Mountain Parks (OSMP) this year. The land is famous for inspiring Boulder residents to...
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October 27, 2016 in 4,259 words
Haunted by Its Past, Will the Stanley Hotel Have a Happy Ending? The zombie invasion was sudden and swift. There were at least a hundred of them, with gaping flesh wounds and bulging eyes, moaning and...
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October 28, 2016 in 4,001 words
The new harvest of rage Depression, scapegoating, Trump and the coming wave of violence in post-election America All indicators point to America being on the brink of a new harvest of rage; that’s to...
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October 29, 2016 in 4,153 words
Tour the Six Most Expensive Homes for Sale in Denver Right Now Over the years in this space, we’ve periodically offered mini-tours of the most expensive homes for sale in Denver — and a look at our...
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October 30, 2016 in 3,932 words
Metamorphosis Local art program #TreeOpp teaches wood skills to the homeless There is an unmistakeable sound of a woodshop — of the lathes, routers and lasers cutting, etching, carving — all absorbed...
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