He was 75 and had lost all his gardening supplies in
the fire. The theme of the party was gardening; the
cake had veggies in frosting instead of flowers. His
primary gift was a wheelbarrow and he received many
gift cards to buy new tools. He was really pleased.
He supplied his own music; he types out music on his
keyboard and then edits it and speeds it up. It's
unique. About 30 people showed up which makes a
good group for a party and we had a good time.
This afternoon Bob and Karen showed up to return
the Saturn Bob had borrowed while waiting for
his car to be built in Germany. Fortunately he
had it during the fire so that there was one
less car we had to deal with when we evacuated
from the canyon.
This evening Jo and Alf came for dinner. It
was their house we stayed in while we were
evacuated, after we left Carl's. It was
good to see them and compare what they had
heard from Cape Cod and what we saw from
here. It is interesting that their friends
back east lost interest in the fire as soon
as they heard that it wasn't actually in
Boulder. The fact that it affected them didn't
register.
Site of former Horse Barn (aka car port)
Robert and I spent a few hours yesterday cleaning
up our patio. The flagstones are almost pink
again and the ash and soot have been removed. We
also worked a bit on cleaning up the debris from
the old horse barn, aka the car port. We took
many, many bags to the dumpsters. The State
Health Dept. has declared ALL burned sites to
be hazardous sites.. so the bags had to go
into special dumpsters. I had insisted the
bags not be too heavy, thinking of the height
of the dumpsters. When we arrived there, 3
young men had the bags in the dumpster almost
before we could get out of the car. Nice!
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