Got up on 5 roofs to assess for hail damage all in Engelwood and all 5 are residential roofs.
Sent my confirmation to work at homeless cafe (SAME Cafe). Start date is Sept 9th for afternoon shift.
Working for Nelson Tree Service tomorrow and Thursday.
Hiking the High Line Canal Trail in Cherry Hills on Wednesday Aug 20 with friend, Debra Kommodore. My former wife, Mardell, introduced me to the Kommodores and the Nelsons.
Alex Kommodore just received tenure as a music professor at Metropolitan State College. We arranged getting together for dinner this coming Friday night at their home. Alex is making a batch of micro-brew beer for Friday night. I have had Alex's homemade beer before. It was great! Really looking forward to hiking with Debra on Wednesday and getting together for dinner with the whole clan Alex, Debra, Celeste, Caroline and hopefully Ivan the oldest. Ivan joined the military so he may be off on deployment.
Have had the pleasure of watching the kids grow up the past 12 years off and on.
The Kommodores and Nelsons and John Stidman are the reasons I love coming back to Denver.
Still need to call John Stidman and Tom Johnson.
Need to attend Church in the City an inner city church which has morphed into a Messianic church under the pastorship of Mike Walker who grew up in NY as an Orthodox Jew. The church is far from the Nelsons but will need to figure out the mass transportation system.
Will check out serving at Church n the City as well.
Getting back to the High Line Canal Trail...I found wild plum trees along the trail so back in 2011 I borrowed the Kommodores canning equipment and got Debra's instructions and made a large batch of wild plum jam. It was great! Stidman wanted a bunch, the Kommodores and the Nelsons along with my neighbors all wanted my wild plum jam.
Stidman and I went down the street and to a friends home in north Denver and picked grapes and made a few gallons of sweet grape juice.
That was another reason to love the canal trail. Equestrians use the trail too. Mardell introduced me to the trail back when I moved to Denver in Feb 2003. Didn't like it at first because it didn't seem to compare favorably with the Rock Island Trail in Alta and Dunlap, IL which I hiked religiously. But after a while I came to love the canal trail. At dusk the bats come out and dive bomb you. It's great!
Last weekend was restful. Slept a lot. Needed it! Needed to recover!
Ken Feather the camp manager of Recharge Lake Camp in York, NE called me wondering if I made it to Denver. It was nice knowing people I have met along the way are concerned with my safety and well being!
Gotta get working on my next column at the Morton Times. I saw that both Aurora, NE and Julesberg, CO newspapers did an article on me passing through their communities.
Pics show the mountains west of Engelwood, CO and drinking Jamba Juice smoothy in Engelwood today.
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