We drove up to Boulder for the grand re-opening of our friends' Boulder Baked Cafe at its new location, 1911 Broadway. They've found themselves a nice spot near the corner of Broadway and Walnut, and right next door to a Migun beds store, which is also someplace very fun to visit. Their desserts were as great as usual, and visiting the Cafe was a very pleasant experience. I told Katie their colors reminded me a lot of the Cal Poly University Union, which turned out to be very well accepted, back in the day.
We had a fun day overall. We started by driving up to Arvada at noon, to visit with Dee, the woodworker who did great things with our window sills and the doors for the living room TV. At K's request for my birthday, Dee had made me a tool carry box from Aspen, a very light hardwood. It's a real work of art. She showed us around her workroom, and that was fun, looking over all her cool woodworking tools. Then K asked her to show us her train set in the basement, and that is something really amazing too. Seems like miles of track, and many assembled trains ready to run on many combinations of track.
Just before we left Dee's, I took Mandy over to the nearby Independence Park for a short walk. It's a nice little park, with a good sized expanse of open grass. Mandy loved getting off leash and prancing around the grass for awhile. Then I put her back on leash, and we got a little more serious about circling the park at a nice brisk walking pace.
I heard a train horn approaching, so just for fun, I moved us briskly over to the North side of the park, nearest the train tracks, and sure enough a great long freight came by. We enjoyed watching this real train, a long freight with perhaps six engines in front, as it came lumbering by on the nearby tracks, all of the engines working hard as it pulled the long stretch of cars up the hill.
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