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Whenever the Weather Service forecasts a “big” snowstorm, I tend to be skeptical. Mainly because many of their forecasts are busts, and I’m greatly disappointed. Also, a lot of our bigger snowstorms haven’t been forecast until hours before the storm. As Mark Twain, “Climate’s what you expect, weather’s what you…
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Twenty years ago I adopted Maya. It all happened quite spontaneously. While living in Lake Tahoe, I told my friend Jackie how much I loved dogs. Jackie volunteered at the Humane Society and convinced me to come look at a dog she was sure I would love. Reluctantly, I stopped…
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“It’s on your left as you ride the chairlift. It’s towards the top of the tree.” What is it? Finally, I caught sight of “it.” A brown and black blob of quills clinging to the trunk of a fir tree near the top. Ever so slowly, it started to creep…
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When we first moved to Nederland ten years ago, we did so to live in the mountains. We didn’t know much about this town of 1,500, other than it lay on the doorstep of the Indian Peaks Wilderness. But we soon came to find out that throughout Colorado, Nederland had…
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