Long's Peak, Boulder Creek, and Home

This is the ledge from which the young man from Quebec was rescued (on Long's Peak) that he isn't being charged for:

This is a photo of Boulder Creek today a couple minutes after 12 noon beside the Boulder Public Library.  If you draw a line from the man sitting on the grass slightly left and upward, you'll see two white posts sticking out of the Creek.  Immediately to the right of the post on the right is the back of a park bench that is almost completely under water....

Thank goodness the bongo serenade has ended.  As soon as I opened my patio door after arriving home, someone - a very good player, actually - started playing the drums on their second floor patio.  After 45 minutes, I'm ready for sounds other than timpani.  .... I've been having a blast baking cobblers and feeding Shirley fresh fruit. I'm making pineapple cobbler this afternoon.  This evening I've got to pick up the dog poop in the back yard, as trash day is tomorrow.  Cooper, Lola and Pounce sleep with me every night - Tipsi only does so occasionally.  ....  I miss sleeping and spending time with Lovey and Nedi, though.  And while I do have access to a laptop at the house, it freezes frequently when I want to go to a  site with a large number of pages of information.  I've found I need to do that here at home.

   The birds are waking me up around 4:30 each morning, so I really can use a nap in the afternoon.  It was extremely humid here (for Colorado) Saturday afternoon - I checked my weather application and saw that the humidity here in Boulder was higher than that at Chincoteague Island, Vero Beach, or Gainesville.  I was very surprised.  But the humidity dropped yesterday and with that, and the heat, one can now see rocky sides of mountains mixed in with striations of snow in the Indian Peaks Wilderness area and on Mount Audubon.  Since it's now June, maybe we won't have more snowfall until September or October.  I hope.

   And the third and final race of the Triple Crown will occur Saturday at Belmont Park in New York...  Will California Chrome become the first horse since Affirmed in 1978 to be a Triple Crown Champion?  We'll see.......

   Oooops.  I forgot.  The prosecution has rested in the trial of ex-Boulder police office Sam Carter; the defense has begun.  Carter says he will not take the stand (at this time).  The Sheriff's Deputy who assisted Carter and Curnow in loading the elk into Curnow's truck testified that he thought it was a legal, justified kill.  When faced with the testimony of  two veterinarians that they found nothing to indicate the bull was previously injured, he stated he was just doing a favor for a friend, and thought that Carter was in the right. Carter is having another vet from Oregon state that the elk probably was injured, but since not all of the elk was available for the necropsy, he couldn't make a definite statement. Geez!

Boulder Creek

Boulder Creek took another life yesterday...  In the middle of the afternoon,  a man and his two daughters who live in Nederland drove down Boulder Canyon.  The man did not expect to round a blind curve and find a car sitting still in his lane.  The first vehicle had stopped because a black bear was crossing the road; most of Canyon Drive is a narrow two-lane road.  During the big flood in September, almost half of the road washed away and multiple areas were covered with rock and mudslides.  The road to Nederland is much narrower than it was, passing lanes and bicycle lanes have disappeared, and a lot of safety railings are still missing.  The truck the man was driving struck the rear of the stopped car, slid sideways, and flipped as it fell into Boulder Creek, landing on its roof.  The man and one daughter escaped from the truck and made it to the bank of the Creek; the 13-year-old daughter was caught up in that 800,000 cubic-feet-per-minute sweep of water.  Due to the roadway, the twisting of the Creek, and the rocky banks, rescue teams were quickly set up at multiple stations along the Creek.  The truck flipped into the Creek about a miles west of Sugarloaf Mountain Road and Canyon Drive.  Rescuers were until to grab the girl from the flowing water until she had entered Boulder city limits, passed the Judicial Center, past the Public Library, and finally was behind Boulder High School at 17th Street.  EMTs took her immediately to the hospital, but the girl was pronounced dead on arrival.
   I'm not quite sure why, but it has been decided that the county will not charge the 19-year-old Quebec man for his rescue from Broadway Ledge on Long's Peak.  Since two separate helicopters were used in the rescue, along with a team of 30 people, the cost will be in the thousands...  Guess it's a good thing the county has a discretionary rescue fund with over $423,000 in it.
    When I returned home for a few hours this morning, I saw a bright red sign on Britta's door, so I stopped to read it.  It was a Boulder Police Department sign stating the person had been physically evicted and was not to be allowed back inside the apartment.  I ran into Nancy just before I returned to Tamarack, and wished I'd been ale to avoid her...  She said that while she was talking to her therapist on Friday, she received a text message from her soon-to-be roommate stating that the other roommate had just broken up with her boyfriend and that Nancy could move in, but not her cats.  Nancy freaked.  (Maybe it's just me, but I wouldn't have insulted my therapist by having my cell phone turned on during a session...)  Yesterday, the friend texted her again, and said that the couple was back together, and Nancy could bring her cats with her.  So Nancy asked if the planed apartment move didn't work out, could she and her cats move in with me.  I told her, "Sorry, but no."  She's been evicted from the building - she has three cats - her cats don't like my cats - my cats don't like her cats - she has twice as much stored belongings than I do.  A 500 square-foot apartment that has a hall door, a patio door and a single bathroom will not hold two women and five cats.  Period.