Kevin's musings

Found a place called
Mitchell’s Garden Center
near here that is bringing up green chilies and roasting. They are
kinda pricy as might be expected, but it’s very nice to have
green chilies without having to drive 700 miles to get them. I
got a big pile of both mild and hot. Very tasty, both kinds of
them.

The BBQ went quite well. Had a nice turn out and lots of visiting and
such.

For some reason this weekend has been hell on computer hardware. Two
clients had machines locking up and otherwise not being very
happy. Oh well, managed to at least get them stable.

I am going to be having a BBQ at my place this friday (the 13th!).
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In other news I was considering going down to New Mexico this weekend
to pick up some green chilies, but I found a place near my house
thats going to be getting some in tomorrow and roasting. About
$20 a bushel, (you can typically get it in NM for around
10-15), but much closer.

Lovely dinner/evening. Dinner was an idea courtsey of my friend lizard:

1/2 package of cream cheese.
1 tbsp korean red spicy pepper sauce.
Shrimp
pasta

I think now that I had made this simple repast I will do a few things
diffrently. More spicy red peper sauce is always in order (I
started out low since I wasn’t sure how hot it really
was). Also, next time I will start the skillet out at 11 instead
of starting out medium. It qas still yummy though. Also had a
nice mellow cabernet with dinner. I must be a lightweight, a
bottle of wine wipes we out anymore.

After that I took the dogs for a nice walk. We ran into a mom, a
6month old and a 3 year old. The 3 year old was fascinated by
the dogs and wanted to know if they had a place to “pee pee” and
“poo”. Was amusing talking to her and having her mom look
embarresed. The dogs loved the attention.

Nice saturday so far here. I went out to petsmart and ran a meet-n-greet for
Colorado Greyhound Companions
It was pretty amazingly dead there. Not nearly as many people as there
normally are. It could be a bunch of people are off on summer
vacations or something. We did get to see Jackson the great dane
(one of my dog Kurt’s favorate dogs in the world).

After getting back from that around 2pm, I headed down to the ren
faire site to pick up benches and anything else that was left at
the booth. Traffic was abysmal. Took me about 1.5 hours to get
down to the faire site. At 8am during the run of faire I was
managing around 45-55min. They had a bunch of signs up saying
“Festival is over, go away, no tresspassing”. Kind of makes me
wonder how many people they have that show up the weekend after
closing and wander in. “There wasn’t anyone selling tickets at
the front, so we just went in. Where can we buy a bugwiser?” Got
the benches all loaded, and found that there was several things
of trash that didn’t get tossed on closing day. Its a good thing
I picked them up, as they really attract the rats.

Now, on to an evening of drinking and watching audo-visual
entertainment and vegging.

Well, it looks like the RSS feed handled the image I posted in the
last posting ok, which is cool. So, without further adeu, here’s
a picture of many of the core folks that ran the greyhound booth
out at the faire this year:

From left to right and top row to bottom: Todd, Leslie, Terry,
Alexandra, Twyla, Kevin, Chris (top), Jade, Yvone, Merlin
(bottom).

Was a nice run of faire this year. Hopefully we can find more people
to help out at the booth next year, some weekends were pretty
brutal.

Wonder how the RSS feed type things will handle me putting a picture
into the stream? I guess there is one way to find out.

Isn’t mouse (my last foster dog) just the cutest little greyhound:

Denver traffic continues to degrade. Yesterday on the way to the D&D
game I’m in there was a nasty crash on I25 that made my trip
take about 45min longer than normal. Tonight I was going to go
down to the faire site and pick up the benches and anything else
we had left in the booth, but it took me about 20min to get from
120th to 104th, so I decided to just abort and go down on the
weekend. Boy am I glad I don’t commute. I’m sure it would drive
me mad in pretty short order.

This last weekend was the final weekend of the Colorado Ren faire this year.
I am kinda both glad and sad that it’s over. I really like the
atmosphere out there, and it’s really nice to show lots of
people how wonderfull greyhounds are. On the minus side we have
had a hell of a time this year finding enough people to
volenteer to help us out at the booth. Saturday I was in the
booth all day. I didn’t leave even once. Sunday I did get a
chance to go wandering around for a bit at least. Hopefully we
can plan better next year and get a better lineup of people with
outfits and dogs to help out.

In any case, here are
pictures from the closing weekend of faire.

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