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Got started on the expansion of Devil's Claw for this year's Daze 2. It seemed very odd to see freshly blooming pasqueflowers side by side against freshly blooming lupine, clematis (rhymes with Dolores?), and Fairy Slipper, but then this has been an odd year by any measure already. For instance, who could have anticipated that I would singlehandedly take down the entire tick population of the southern Laramie Range? Or that as of 2014, the new population center of the United States would have jumped far, far south, to Austin, TX (my kind of town)? Or that the Taliban would adopt as their official song for all warlord ceremonies the soulful "Confessin' the Blues"?
No, you could not have seen any of those things coming. Not even with a Friden calculator at hand.
Anyway, I found a pretty cool boulder in the forest that on one side looks merely okay big, but from the other side looks giant. I think this giant/not-so-giant boulder may have to figure in with the Daze 2 course in one fashion or another.
After running, I returned home and decided to check to see if there were any entries for Laramie Daze yet, and there were! Another odd thing though--there were almost no names I recognized. Troy Bozarth? Sounds vaguely familiar, in the sense of maybe one of those names you see on the "most wanted" posters in the Post Office. And I had been to the Post Office today... Bob Ellis? What, is that some sort of species of tree? Peter Goodwin? Well, I knew that one, I'm pretty sure he's the one that everyone is saying is the new voodoo chile. Lord, the gypsy was right!
61 days and it will be here.