Duncan in the snow
This is maybe 3 feet of snow this time. For a while it looked like we would not be able to leave our block for at least a week, but then this guy with a front end loader showed up.
Archive for the ‘Society’ Category
Snow Day
Thursday, February 11th, 2021Gus is Gone
Tuesday, January 12th, 2021
Gus at his food truck
No more Gyros anymore. Gus has died of Covid-19 complications. We will miss him.
SIGNS?
Thursday, December 10th, 2020
Watch out for that Colorado sun! If you don’t have the SPF of the proper strength, it looks like you can rent some.
SIGNS
Wednesday, November 4th, 2020What again? OK, I sometimes take pictures of signs. Here’s the SIGNS posting from 2016 if you click here you will see it.
The big sign from 2016 was up on the corner of Crest and Harmony, but this time some “libtard” parked his pickup truck in front so when you traveled east on Harmony you would see the division on Crest Street.
I saw this sign and thought it was a good one, maybe the owner made this sign? I don’t know, but I had not seen one like it on my bike rides.
No, the real Q is not writing on sticky notes and posting them on lamp posts. This person is really trying to inform the masses who may not subscribe to the Social Media via the Internets. So where is the scruffy dude with the long grey beard holding up the old “End Is Near” sign?
FIRES!
Monday, November 2nd, 2020
From our kitchen window
Here we go again…
Saturday, October 31st, 2020
Let’s hope so… With over 233,000 Americans dead from the virus we need some kind of leadership that does not pass off conspiracy theories as reality. Note on this day: No Halloween this year, just like No festivals, live music, parties.
October Surprise
Friday, October 23rd, 2020
After days of darkness due to the forest fires, we now have a bit of snow to help get at least some of the fires under control.
BLM March
Wednesday, June 10th, 2020
There was a BLM march in downtown FoCo that moved down to the CSU Oval. I biked in early to get a photo op before the crowds got onto the oval and then I left soon afterwards just to avoid people. The day before that I stopped in at the HUB and made the lettering on the shirt to pay homage to a radical Russian punk band that I like.
Plague Months, Day 30
Monday, March 30th, 2020On the Road to KilKenny, October 1992
This trip we went to Ireland and Wales with our friends Alison and Pietro. My notes say it took a long flight from Boston to London and then a short 55 minute flight to Dublin then taxi to Merrion Hall to meet our friends in the guest hallway. Note: The Merrion Hall is a former Plymouth Brethren church built by Alfred Gresham Jones and completed in 1863 that was located near Merrion Square in Dublin, Ireland. It has been reconstructed and renovated and is now a hotel but the facade has been retained. We took a taxi to Donahue’s Pub to listen to some music but left early because of all the tobacco smoke (It is 1992 after all). Spent first night in Dublin at The Merrion.
The next morning (October 12, 1992) leaving the Merrion we took a bus to the city center Dublin and to the college bookstore to get a notebook to write vacation notes. Saw also the Book of Kells, a fancy book I remember learning about in art class. Next, went on a rather long journey to get the car hire.We picked up a 4-door Toyota Carrola around 1:30 PM and raced out of town!
The above ruin was sometimes called St. David’s Castle, and sometimes called King John’s Castle, dates from about 1200. I can’t imagine anyone living there, but you can see a TV antenna sticking out from the roof. It’s in the town of Naas, where we stopped on the way to Kilkenny for food.
Got into Kilkenny about 3:30 and took a look around with a walking tour before we go to our place for the night, the Bregagh.
Killkenny was an overnight stop for us, but the town was rich in history. Apparently the Butler family dynasty originated here. Our guide told us that Michael Butler, the producer of Hair is related somehow. Michael was the famous person in Oakbrook, Illinois who I remember while growing up in nearby Villa Park. In 1993 Mr. Butler left Oakbrook for good, never to return!
After we got our things to the B&B and parked the car, we set out to the pubs for some “action”. I brought my banjo: This would be the first time for me in a pub in Ireland. It works like this: If you want all the free beer you can drink, just bring a musical instrument to an Irish pub.
The musicians hid out in the corner and were treated like royalty. We played until the place “closed” and then kept going because: Ireland. At the time, the John Cleere was a lively little pub, a nice place for the locals to gather and have a pint and listen to music. I learned that a few years after I played there they added a 100-seat theatre to the back of the pub.
Since then, it has been at the heart of every major arts festival in Kilkenny and become a cultural institution in its own right.
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Plague Months, Day 29
Sunday, March 29th, 2020Away from “The Cut” and a few days in London Sept 13,1999
Note: Everything posted is in reverse order, so what you see in this little travel log starts with the end of the trip first. Just deal with it.
Sept. 13, 1999 – Checked into the Luxham Gardens apartments; much nicer than the first night in London. Had dinner near Earl’s Court.
That evening after dinner we went to Picadilly and saw the movie “Austin Pawers – The Spy Who Loved Me”
Near St. Margaret’s near Westminster. We checked out the walking tour of Whitehall with emphasis on:
1)The Banquet House. We took an audio tour and viewed the video on the history of the building. It was not a big tourist attraction so it was a pleasant place to stop.
2) The Cabinet War Rooms. This was the WW II bunker that housed the U.K. cabinet under Whitehall Street.
After the war room, we had lunch at the Weslian Church school cafeteria. Later we purchased half priced tickets to “The History of America” by the Reduced Shakespear Company. Sept 15, took the tube to the airport: End of vacation on the cut!