potluck pictures

the drink of love

sadie, theres and i discovered the redstone meadery on our bike ride the other day. we stopped in, did some free tasting, and discovered that we REALLY enjoy mead! (so, yep, we took some home too!)

we learned from dave, the owner of redstone meadery, that mead is a wine, fermented from honey. We also learned that fermented honey may be the oldest form of alcohol known to man.

interestingly, legend has it that the word honeymoon is derived from an ancient tradition of sending a newly married couple off to seclusion for a month with much mead, to ensure their best chance to start a family quickly. Mead has been, and still is, considered the drink of love.

and it's made locally, right along the boulder bike path! all the better!!

my backyard

today at the farmer's market

Today I spent the morning at the Farmer's Market...people watching and taking pictures. It's my favorite thing to do on Saturday mornings!

Baby Beluga is in TROUBLE!...

SAVE THE WHALES!...

The magnificent white beluga whales of Alaska's Cook Inlet are headed toward extinction. Today, there are some 300 belugas left in these increasingly industrialized waters -- a 77 percent decline from the 1,300 whales that lived in the inlet in the early 1980's. Their situation is so desperate that the World Conservation Union added them to its "Red List" of threatened species as "critically endangered" in April 2006. The next category is "Extinct in the Wild."

The National Marine Fisheries Service is finally proposing that the Cook Inlet belugas be protected as an endangered species.
But in the face of industry opposition, that proposal will not become reality without an outpouring of public support.

It's truly zero hour for this special population of belugas. With only three weeks until the public comment period ends on June 19, we must act immediately to save these 300 surviving whales -- one of the smallest populations of marine mammals left on the planet!

Even the slow-to-act National Marine Fisheries Service admits that "no similar beluga habitat exists in Alaska or elsewhere in the United States." Yet industry and business groups -- backed by all three members of Alaska's congressional delegation -- are opposed to the whale's endangered species designation.

Please seize the moment to save the belugas while there is still time. Send in your Official Citizen Comment now and help give belugas a fighting chance. Here is the link to take action and tell the Bush Administration to Protect the Last 300 Beluga Whales in Alaska's Cook Inlet...

http://www.nrdconline.org/campaign/actionfund_beluga_0507

The Baby Belugas THANK YOU!

Bolder Boulder!!

Yesterday, The Boulder College of Massage Therapy sent 67 student therapists to the finish line of the All-famous Annual Bolder Boulder 10k Memorial Day Race. There were over 50,000 runners registered for the race, and BCMT massaged just over 1,300 racers!!! Whew! I personally massaged over 30 people! (I lost count.) It was pretty exhausting, but a lot of fun!! Very high energy and I got to do a lot of networking. Here are some pictures...

first BBQ of the summer at sadie's

sadie and hansen threw a BBQ in their courtyard the other night. i made fresh squeezed lemonade/pineapple/strawberry juice, which we mixed with some local meade brew...it was a hit! we broke the guitars out too, which was a blast! great weather gets me excited for more BBQs to come!