House guests

Our friends, Paul and Barbara Kelly arrived June 2nd.
We had supper held for them, for which they were clearly
grateful. They had driven from Reno and had hit sleet
along their route; not an easy drive.

On Wednesday we let them have a leisurely day for the
most part. We did walk up to the Apple Tree Mine. That
took long enough so that I had to excuse myself and race
back to rescue homemade soup I had on the stove! But,
I made it back in 14 minutes and the soup was fine.

On Thursday we went to town and walked the Pearl Street
Mall to the Boulderado Hotel. We had a lovely lunch in
the Corner Bar. It was not terribly crowded so we took
our time and enjoyed a long, leisurely meal. After lunch
we walked over to the Boulder Book Store and spent an
hour there. It is such a wonderful book store. It is
impossible for me to get out of that store without
buying at least one book. They bought many books and
the store let them use my discount. I thought that was
nice!

We had so many books that Robert volunteered to go get
the car while we sat and waited on a bench near 9th
street.

While sitting there Paul noticed a banner advertising
Chautauqua and since he grew up near the New York
Chautauqua he was curious. I described our Chautauqua
history and he and I reminisced about the NY Chautauqua
and playing on a large model of the Holy Land that was
hills and dales all made of concrete, I would guess. I
remember it,but not the details. We drove up to
Chautauqua and through the grounds. The main road
was blocked with huge motorhomes; I gathered some
music group was there and you could hear them
practicing in the auditorium.

From Chautauqua we drove up to NCAR and admired the
various exhibits including the art show in the
cafeteria. Will Spangler was looking at the art in
the cafeteria. We chatted briefly. He has retired,
but still has his office at NCAR. I was amazed.

That was our last stop for the day. We drove on home.

After dinner we played a new word game, a take off on
Scrabble. I think it is called Wild Word. Paul won
hands down. I didn't come in last, amazingly. Only
because Barbara had challenged a word I had used and
she lost 20 points doing that so she came in last.
It's a fun game and I expect we'll use it some this
summer. We are having many house guests.

Paul and Barbara left this morning about nine. I
am taking a lazy day! I did do laundry, but that is
about all I plan to do in the line of housework!