My Colorado

In Life by Lisa Burnett

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I have been debating this for a few days now.  Maybe I shouldn't write anything about it. It is the reason this blog has been sitting silent for so long.  After all, this blog is basically a business blog- to inform our customers about  new products, fabric, ideas, etc. Sometimes we throw in a little family post in from time to time.  But nothing heavy.  Nothing too thought provoking.  Just fun.

But it happened here.  Again.  Here as in Colorado.   I think the word Colorado has been mentioned on the news about a bazillion times since Friday.  I am sickened.  I am mad.  I am heartbroken for the victims. I feel just as every other American does.   But I refuse to let the actions of one define my state.  My home. That isn't Colorado.  It isn't my Colorado.    

Which got me thinking.  About all the things I love about this state.  Here are a few.

Whenever I till someone from a different state that I live in Colorado, they think this:

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The mountains.  Um, not so much.  They are beautiful.  But I rarely visit the mountains.  I've been skiing.  Once.  In the 9th grade.  We live on the plains,  which look more like this:

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Beautiful, huh?  Well, sometimes it's beautiful. Just not now- we are in a severe drought and everything is a nice shade of brown.  I do love Colorado corn fields:

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And wheat fields in July:

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Here are some other things I love about Colorado.  

Downtown Denver, or LoDo.  A fun place to be.

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Colorado State University.  My whole family graduated from here.  Hopefully our kids will choose it too. Not to pressure anyone.

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My beloved sports teams.  The Broncos, Nuggets and Rockies.  I almost left the Rockies off the list. They are unbearably awful this year.  A W F U L.   But I still love them.  And it's still fun to go to Coor's Field.

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One of my most favorite places on earth to be.  The Colorado State Fair.  For the livestock shows- not the rides.  But this is the only picture I could find.

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And the snow.

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Just kidding.  I hate the snow.  But it was a pretty picture.  And it looked sort of refreshing after the 100th day of 105 degrees.  I am exaggerating about the 100 days.  But not by much.  It is seriously HOT here this summer.  

So those are just a few things I love about living here.  I just wanted to remind myself about all the good things.

I in no way am personally connected to any of the victims of last Friday.  I didn't know any of them or their families.  I just share the same state.  It does give me kind of a weird feeling knowing that one of the three movies my husband and I ever have seen together was at that theater.  And my son was born at the hospital President Obama visited on Sunday.  But other than that, I have no connection. And like everyone else, I pray for the victims and their families.  I want to know about and remember them.  Not the horrible act.

So now that I got that post out of the way, I can post about something a little more fun.  Even something about sewing.  We have our new Label Crew project for August finished.  I will tell you all about it tomorrow!