Weekend Wrap-Up

I finished the weekend with a nice long walk around Wash Park, 70* and sunny, everyone was out. There are always lots of dogs at the park and today I saw a few worth noting. Like the one pulling its owner on a skateboard, if you have to run the dog and don't want to run yourself, that's an option. Or the dog with the kite string tied to its collar, because if you're a kid holding that string all afternoon can get tiresome and you have this dog so......I also saw the little dog being "walked" around the park in a bicycle basket a la Toto. Ahhhh, sights at the park.

This weekend I moved out of the ski condo, I've found a home for most of the things that I brought back.

This weekend has been very sewing focused. Last week I made this little guy.

I still have to attach his ears. Yesterday I made a friend for him in the opposite fabric so he's green with polka dot ears. I hope two little kids like these because they took me a lot of time!













Last week these yummy fabrics arrived in the mail.


I bought these to make pillows for Grandmommy. I didn't quite finish but I made three of the four I was planning to make. The first one is an envelope pillow with piping I made of the same fabric of the smaller pillows.




I was hoping to make a bolster pillow out of the blue fabric but I guess that will have to be a future project.
They do look nice on my bed but I'll be bringing them to Grandmommy for hers. She likes pillows more than anyone I know!

Ski Season

Well, my ski season is officially over. I cleaned out the condo today, did some cleaning and came back to Denver to figure out where to put all my ski stuff in my apartment. Grand totals for the season:
Days skiing: 20 (Keystone:11, Breckenridge:5, A-Basin:1, Beaver Creek:1, Vail:2)
Total Vertical Feet: 343,602
Just about time to make the down payment on next year's pass!

Weekend Wrap-Up

Another weekend done. This weekend was a great weekend both in Denver and in the mountains. After much debate between flip-flops and ski boots I headed to the mountains to ski on Saturday. I'm thinking that this may have been my last weekend to ski so I wanted to get in at least one more day. I've not put in a total of 20 days on the slopes and over 343,000 vertical feet (not counting one very brief and cold day at A-Basin). The beginning of the day was icy, despite the 50 inches of snow the mountains had gotten in the past week, but I was right at home with my east coast skiing skills. It was a beautiful warm day and the snow softened up quickly.

Yes, that sign is correct, high 55-60*...

I agree that 60* is warm, especially when you're skiing but I'm not sure it was warm enough for some of the outfits I saw, especially the girl who was snowboarding in her bra! Ahhhhh, Colorado.
The snow got pretty slushy so I called it a day around 2:30 and sat on the deck at the base and enjoyed an end-of-season Sam Adams. Nothing like a beer on a sunny deck after a day of Spring skiing.

I drove back to Denver that afternoon and by the time I got back around 6:30 it was still 80*! My apartment was actually hot! As nice as it was to have some really warm sunny weather, Denver is desperate for moisture so I wasn't sad that the forecast for today was radically different. We went from this yesterday:

To this today:

Yes, that's a rain/snow mix so clearly it was colder...much colder... We've already had a handful of wildfires around Denver and it's only April 3 so I'll be happy for the wet weather and hope that it continues, at least for a little while. I spent most of the day cleaning, doing laundry and running errands. I did figure out that if you go to the Target in Glendale at 9:00am on a Sunday you'll have it all to yourself! It was almost eerily quiet when I arrived but by the time I was leaving it was starting to fill up, kids having meltdowns and all.
Well, that's it, on to another week!