The party starts

This morning at 11am Alessandro and Rita Bocci arrive at the airport. They are husband and wife winemakers from Italy that will be with us until they fly to Chicago Tuesday morning at 6am. I’ll pick them up and then take them to their hotel and then probably go grab them for lunch. This evening we’re going to our good friends Jeff and Tina’s for a bbq. We called them last night and invited ourselves to their great house on Cheeseman Park for an impromptu party. I had to have something to do tonight and didn’t want to have them at our house as the misses would end up doing too much.

Tomorrow am the oldest has his league championship swim meet at Columbine and then I think I’ll run them up to the mountains. Monday we have a lunch and then a tasting from 5 until 7 in Boulder. Not really good timing to have them here but they’ve been in Seattle and Oregon and are headed to Chicago and we needed to fill in a couple of days.

Yesterday at 12:30 we had our first post op appointment and I’m happy to report that the misses is doing great. Aunt B and Uncle T took the boys for us and they all went to lunch at Woody’s Pizza in Golden. I think someday I’ll let them take me to Woody’s!

Of course the news of the day was the senseless shooting in the middle of the night. Not much to say about it but how sad. Now get ready for the exploitation of this tragedy by people that oppose the 2nd Amendment. No matter what side you’re on, it makes me sick that people use events like this to further their position only hours or sometimes even minutes after it happens. It’s ok to have a responsible debate on issues but as our Democratic Governor said, “we can’t let deranged people like this take away our freedoms or rights through one senseless act”. Rumor has it Obama is coming to Colorado which if so is nothing more than blatant exploitation of this tragedy for political purposes. I mean come on, what benefit is there from him coming to Denver to give a speech? I’ll bet he wouldn’t be coming if we weren’t a swing state! By 7pm every major network had their top national reporters here repeating the same stuff we heard in the morning and sensationalizing the event for ratings. 20/20, 48 Hours and other impromptu all had shows titled like “Tragedy in Aurora” Even ABC had to apologize as their top reporter said the shooter was a Tea Party member when in truth it so happens to just be a Tea Party member with the same name who is 52 years old and in no other way connected. That’s the only thing in common but noooo, they jumped all over it without the facts for ratings. It’ll be weeks before we here in Colorado can get away from having this rehashed over and over. The only thing that’ll stop it is some bad event somewhere else that they can latch onto for what they think is higher ratings. I mean do any of you want to keep seeing this crap on tv for days on end? I’ll stop now as I’m not going down this road on this day when everyone needs to pray for the victims and their families and yes, even for this sick individual.

It’s going to be 100 degrees today so I’d better run the sprinklers again. Our water and electric bills are way up this year due to increased prices and the drought.

Take care and have a great day.

 

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