Month: August 2015

Weekend Things

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First things, first.  We went to three Rockies games this week and I’m feeling very qualified to say being a Rockies fan is ROUGH right now.  Remember at the beginning of the season, when I said I was trying to focus more this year?  Yeah, I totally picked the wrong year to start paying a lot more attention to the Rockies.

In other news, non-Rockies related pieces of this weekend were quite blissful.  It might have something to do with that “Autumn in August” phenomenon, that allows me to live out both of my favorite seasons at once — fall by morning, summer by afternoon — or it might have been a combination of a burger dinner, time with friends, a painless training run, lavender, baking and the best soy chai latte that you ever had.

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Odds & Ends: Summer Edition

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Did you hear about the Corpse Flower??  It’s this giant flower that blooms once every 7-10 years and emits a smell that’s akin to rotting flesh.  And as it turns out, the Denver Botanic Gardens has one!  It was predicted to bloom this week, so they had a live feed going and because even I’m not immune to frenzy, I totally had the live feed up in the corner of my screen all day on Tuesday.  Then it bloomed overnight.  Go figure.

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