My home is in North Boulder off 30th and Iris. It’s getting close to Memorial Weekend. Put those two facts together and what do you get? You get the BolderBoulder Run-up Entertainment Specials! That’s right. For those of us who live practically on top of the race starting line, the countdown to the Big 10K is full of little daily not-quite surprises.

(Yes, of course I’ll be running–well, walk/jogging, anyway. I’m back in the NB wave. You can look me and John up under last name “LeBoeuf-Little”. What, you think I’m going to try to sleep through the insanity? Not bloody likely, sweetie.)

Today’s development: the first lengths of Rent-A-Fence went up along 30th and Corona Trail. No more crossing 30th mid-block for us! This will definitely put a damper on my early morning dash across the street to catch that 208 I’m late for. I’ll just watch it helplessly as it corners at Glenwood about 30 seconds before I get to the break in the chain-link fence. Joy!

But you know what I’m really looking forward to? Saturday morning at something like 6:00 AM when they drop off the port-a-potties along the curb by the Alterra residence. Mmm, port-a-potties and lilacs: the smells of summer!