Colorado
Sandra and I are doing one of our semi-annual Very Large Scale Barbecues on Saturday, August 21st. Any regular ASIP reader who is interested in attending, just drop me a line, and I’ll give you details. ..bruce w..
My sweet wife Sandra attended the Denver Tea Party today (I had to stay home due to work; hey, gotta pay those bills somehow). She reported no attempts to disrupt and only the one sign above (like anyone believes that Tea Partiers believe 9/11 was an inside job). UPDATE: Here’s video of said “lefty plant” [...]
Governor Bill Ritter (D-Colorado), who has been trailing in polls against potential Republican challengers for his re-election this fall, has decided not to run at all, according to this morning’s Denver Post: Ritter told other Democrats the job was taking a toll on his family and he could not be successful as a father and [...]
Continue reading about Breaking news: another Democrat bows out
It started snowing here about 9 pm on Tuesday evening and hasn’t stopped since. The wind has been blowing constantly, pretty much between 10 and 20 mph (I can’t tell for sure — my outside anemometer appears to have frozen up). The local news station is reporting 14″ of snow so far here in Parker [...]
Continue reading about I’m dreaming of a white . . . Halloween?
ITEM: Milk prices have plummeted here in Denver over the past year. I used to spend close to $3/gallon for my favorite milk (Lucerne Skim Supreme Fat Free milk); now the price is around $1.60/gallon. It’s hurt the dairy farmers here in Colorado, and their response is to kill cows in order to reduce milk [...]
ITEM: According to the Onion, the absolute low point of Western Civilization will be reached at 3:32 pm this coming Friday: Experts predict that the penultimate catastrophe will occur at approximately 7:15 p.m. Thursday night, when the social networking tool Twitter will be used to communicate a series of ideas so banal they will instantaneously [...]
It’s been cold and drizzling all morning. Now it’s snowing. Heavily. For well over an hour now. I’ll post photos and videos as soon as I can. Mind you, we don’t live up in the Rockies — we live south and east of Denver. We are, however, several hundred feet higher than downtown Denver. ..bruce [...]
OK, I had planned to blog more (and post more photos), but once things got rolling Friday morning, I was pretty much too busy. Here’s how the cooking schedule turned out: Friday, 6 am to 2 pm: smoked 4 briskets, which I then double-wrapped in foil and put into a 180-degree oven (until Saturday afternoon). [...]
Continue reading about Brisket-blogging: Sunday morning aftermath
I’m doing what my co-blogger Bruce Henderson likes to call a “VLSB” or “very large scale BBQ” next Saturday, July 25th. It’s been almost 10 months since my last one — far too long — but this should make up for it by being the largest one yet; I fully expect 80-100 people. I’m not [...]
Continue reading about Brisket blogging ahead: VLSB scheduled for 7/25
Sandra and I rode the Denver Light Rail (first time!) from Lincoln Avenue up into downtown Denver. Our first clue that there might be a good turnout was the fact that the train were were on was full of people with signs: And as we walked up to the Colorado State Capitol, we saw that [...]