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I LOVE LIVING IN COLORADO. There, I said it. Ok, this isn’t new news.

This week is a perfect example. Monday and Tuesday were 80 degree perfect days. Wednesday, it snowed. All day. Colorado is great for shit like that. Spring pops its head out for a few days in early April, and then you get some snow. Today (Thursday) it’s sunny and 50. Variable weather conditions is part of living here. It can snow in Vail

Looking back at my flickr photostream, most every year we get some snow in mid to late April.

April 23, 2004 - I had just returned from Lawrence, Kansas (Kevin and I went to see Yonder because I had just been fired from the Vail Daily and thought it’d be fun to take a 2 day road trip). This was taken about 40 minutes outside Denver. Incidentally, it more or less blizzarded in Vail on the last day of April, my last day of living up there. I went to the bars at 5PM to get wasted (mission accomplished) and had sandals on, then had to walk a few blocks from the bus stop in 5″ of snow at 2:15AM. My toes turned blue. I was so cold. Fucking freezing.

April 10, 2005 - More April snow, this time in Denver.

Well, that’s all I have, but it snows late here. And people just need to accept that. When I used to go to camp on the side of Mount Evans, the camp was at 10,200 feet (and still is, in fact). We used to get snow all the time, including on July 4 a few times. I love the snow, so it’s no big deal.