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The Perry Park

Sentinel

JUNE 2017

IS IT SUMMER YET???

I love Colorado weather. It is never dull. It never al- away two deer who often take refuge there in rain
lows us to get complacent. or snow. They returned as soon as the crazy lady
crawled back to the front porch.
We had no winter—until April. And May.
Just now I received an email from the Perry Park Metro

As I write this, on the 18th of May, it is snowing. It Board announcing that the Firewise meeting sched-
was snowing when I got up at 6 a.m. and it is still uled for tonight has been cancelled YET AGAIN be-
snowing now at 9 p.m. Fortunately today has been cause of inclement weather. It was originally sched-
warm enough uled for April
that a lot of the 29—when we had
snow has al- 15-18 inches of
ready melted, snow. If I were on
but it’s still a the Metro Board,
proper mess I’d be really leery
out there—and of reschedul-
it’s now below ing that meeting
freezing. And again. We don’t
still snowing. need a snowstorm
in June!
At some point
this afternoon, Happy June, ev-
it dawned on e r y o n e — m a y
me that the hose summer finally ar-
on the front of rive in force! And
the house was PHOTO BY ROBIN CECERO please, may the
connected—and next day of precipi-
a hard freeze is predicted. Oops. But rather than tation be a gentle,
tackle a long, rather icy walkway to get to the hose, simple rain? No floods, no blizzards, no hail—a soft,
I climbed over a retaining wall and crawled along soaking rain. Is that so much to ask for?
under the eaves to disconnect the hose, frightening ~KDale