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Whoosh! Whoosh! The wind comes blasting down our road as I step outside. Winter has finally arrived, complete with high winds rolling off the mountain crest, sub-freezing temperatures, and yes, even a bit of snow. Happy as I am for some snow (I’m a skier), it does complicate things a…
Continue readingTractor-trailers jack-knifed into a ditch. Small sedans sliding backwards down the hill. It’s like navigating a slalom course of cars stuck hither and yon all over the roadway. What started out as the routine commute to get home had turned into an endurance contest of navigating cars spinning out of…
Continue readingThe lightning flashed in the dark night sky — bursts of light illuminating the Flatiron mountains. We couldn’t tell exactly where the series of thunderstorms were but figured we would encounter them somewhere along Boulder Canyon on our drive home to Nederland. We didn’t have to wait long. Immediately upon entering…
Continue readingThe line of cars extended as far as the eye could see. License plates read like a convention — Nebraska, Illinois, Texas, Florida, Missouri. Watching these tourists to the Rocky Mountains trying to navigate our little town of Nederland was even more amusing. You see, Nederland, with its population of…
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