Today is the day that my friend, Alexy, puts her house on the market. It's located at 2200 Emerald Road in north Boulder, and is within 5 blocks of the Waldorf Pre-School, Crestview Elementary, Centennial Middle School, and the Tara High School of Performing Arts. It's a wonderful house set in a glorious yard that contains over an acre of land; and it also contains the terminal of an irrigation lateral ditch of the Silver Lake Irrigation Ditch Company, which really cuts down on the watering bill. This is a view of the rear of the house, barely a quarter of the way into the very deep, and wide, back yard....
Tomorrow there will be an open Memorial Service for Aaron Tuneberg, the developmentally disabled 30-year-old, who was killed by two 18-year-olds for his X Box and his bicycle. Aaron rode with the Boulder Touring Thursday bike group every week. They will hold a Memorial Ride for Aaron on 24 April. This is a photo of Aaron putting on his zoot suit coat before joining one of the Thursday evening rides:
Today is the running of the two final Kentucky Derby prep races - the Blue Grass Stakes at Keeneland and the Arkansas Derby at Oaklawn. The jockey list for the Arkansas Derby consists of most of the greatest riders of our time - Gary Stevens, Mike Smith, Jon Court, Calvin Borel, Joe Bravo, Joel Rosario, and Luis Saez. Both of the races should be eye-openers and very hard-run. .... Veteran jockey Edgar Prado was involved in a training accident yesterday; the colt he was riding threw his head back and gave Prado quite a blow to the head. Edgar was knocked unconscious and fell to the track. He has a hairline fracture of C-7, one of his cervical vertebrae, and will not be riding for at least 30 days. .... And Wise Dan made his track return a winning one, taking the Maker's Mile by 3/4 length yesterday. Wise Dan has been named Handicap Horse of the Year for the past two years, and hopes to tie Forego's record of three back-to-back titles. (Forego won in 1974, 1975, and 1976. And he was the full-blooded brother of quite a few of our horses' sire, down in Micanopy - Forego was the "uncle" of my baby, Court Jester....)
And, finally, it's cloudy but warm today. The weather gurus are now saying that Boulder will get 4 to 8 inches of snow tomorrow.... It'll definitely be interesting!
