Name Your Price Feline Adoption Thru 31 August

As of two minutes ago, the Humane Society of Boulder Valley has 88 cats and kittens available for adoption.  Adopt a cat or kitten and set your own feline adoption fee! Or take a chance and spin the “Wheel of Indecision.” The offer runs through the end of this month, August 31.  You can start your search now at  http://www.boulderhumane.org/adoptcats     There are also many dogs, puppies, and smaller pets available.  All critters deserve a loving, "forever" home; if you can help one of these animals, please do.  ...  Also, the Denver Dumb Friends League has cats, dogs, small pets, and equines for adoption.  The Denver Dumb Friends League was established in 1920, and is a no-kill organization, like the HSBV.  They have 143 cats and kittens available for adoption (through August 31, all cats aged 12 months or older can be adopted for only $10), 72 dogs and puppies available, 66 small pets (mice, hamsters, gerbils, guinea pigs, rabbits, rats, and ferrets), and they have about 50 horses, ponies, mules, donkeys, and burros also available.  They may be found and contacted at  http://www.ddfl.org/
   Nedi has been nursing on my right arm, and Lovey is asleep in the cat tree.  We had to have a 15-minute "love me" session as soon as I got inside the door this morning.  They are wonderful kits.  It will be fantastic to sleep with them again when Monday afternoon arrives!  -  And I just checked the Sports listings to see when I'll be in front of the TV watching the Jets and the Broncos this weekend.  The Jets face the Giants at 5 p.m. (EDT) on the NFL Network; the Broncos play the Seahawks starting two hours later on one of our local NBC stations...  And, if you look closely at the photo of Tim Tebow in the latest GQ magazine, you can see that he's standing in the Swamp - the photos were taken 6 years ago.
   On Monday, the USA Pro Challenge bicycle race begins; it finishes here in Boulder, at the top of Flagstaff Mountain.  Flagstaff Mountain sits above Boulder like a Greek god in his amphitheater looking down on his kingdom. Amateur cyclists have paid homage to this mountain for decades, paying the price for spectacular views with spectacular pain. In eight days some of the best pro cyclists in the world will make Boulder, once again, a focal point of the cycling world. The USA Pro Challenge, which begins Monday in Durango, comes through here in what should be the quintessential stage of this second annual race.  The finish atop Flagstaff is the reason.
   "It's hard," said Barry Siff, the volunteer director of the Boulder Organizing Committee. "It's legitimately hard."  With the finishing time trial in Denver the next day, the race could be won or lost on the finish up Flagstaff. When the 102.8-mile stage from Golden reaches the base at Gregory Canyon, it winds steeply around wide bends and switchbacks with fantastic vistas of Boulder, the University of Colorado and Boulder Reservoir.
    It's only 3 ½ miles and not as long or steep as some climbs in the Tour de France, but when the finish reaches the summit, especially after climbs that day up Boulder Canyon, Left Hand Canyon and Lee Hill Road, the cyclists will feel every inch.