It's been a busy few days!
Last night we went to the Harvest Beer Festival at the Cortez Cultural Center. It's a benefit for the Montezuma Land Conservancy and it was a beautiful evening, very well attended. No rain, no wind, about 70 degrees, good music (local Angry Dawg Jazz Band shown) and a happy cross-section of all ages sharing a good evening. One of the joys was watching all the kids hula-hooping in the plaza, backed by Austin's Dave Insley and the Careless Smokers and the mural created by Buford Wayt on the side of the Center. Did you ever guess hula hoops would make a comeback?
Folks got together Saturday morning to clean up the Mancos River banks from the Bakery to Cottonwood Park (maybe 6-7 blocks); the results are shown in the back of the pickup truck to the right of Colorado Supreme Court Justice Gregory Hobbs as he addresses the group at Cottonwood Park celebrating River Day. Hobbs is a poet/attorney/judge/Coloradoan who does a great job of reducing Colorado water law to its essential principles.
Saturday night we caught part of the Mancos-Dove Creek football game. This is our first year of 8-man football. Saturday night was also, as we all know, 9/11, and members of the Mancos VFW and the Cortez American Legion posts opened the game with a color guard and salute in remembrance.
It was a beautiful evening, but it was 22-0 in Dove Creek's favor at halftime, so we headed over to the current Mancos hot spot: Ian's Alley. Ian has a distillery with an associated tasting room (not a bar) that has a stage. Let's say it's cozy!!! Folks kinda drift in and out from the alley; no problem hearing the music out there! We enjoyed the band a lot, but then it was getting late for old folks (and crowded for the introvert), so we called it a night. Don't know how we're going to make it through Juni Fisher's show at the Mancos Opera House during the Balloon Festival ... it doesn't start till 9 p.m.! tv
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