The fun begins at 5 pm with  the Friday Night Bulls at the the arena.

5 pm - Pre-show concert featuring Clay McClinton
6 pm - Celebrity Buckoff
7 pm - PBR Bull Riding
9 pm - Clay McClinton immediately following Bull Riding at the Little Bear.

Saturday enjoy the Rodeo Parade. Come early to mainstreet.  Festivities begin at 9am with bucking mechanical bull rides, square dancing demonstration and more.  Food, fun & a faublous time.

For more information about the rodeo, visist www.evergreenrodeo.com.

The Evergreen, Colorado Rodeo begins this Friday but there many other rodeos around Colorado. 

Denver is on the rebound!

A little boy was overheard talking to himself as he stode through his backyard, baseball cap in place and toting a ball and bat.  “I’m the greatest baseball player in the world,” he said proudly.  Then he tossed the ball in the air, swung and missed.  Undunted he picked up the ball, threw is into the air and said to himself, “I’m the greatest baseball player ever!”  He swung at the ball again, and again he missed.  He paused a moment to examine the bat and ball carefully.  Then once again he threw the ball into the air and said, “I’m the greatest baseball player who ever lived.”  He swung the bat hard and again he missed the ball. “Wow!” he exclaimed.  “What a pticher!”

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TIPS:

Know Your Zone:  
Do not rely soley on the USDA hardiness zone maps because they indicate the zone for an area  as a whole not taking into consideration small areas that have diffrent climates. Review the extreme winter low temperatures and see where the climate in which you live fits into a hardiness zone.  While you wouldn’t grow tomatoes in an area where summer nighttime temperatures dipped into the 40s’, you may grow other plants in this zone that would thrive with the cooler temperatures.

Patience, Patience, Patience
Growing season starts later and ends earlier than the season down the hill.  It may be tempting to begin summer gardening, but a successful garden needs to be started at the correct time.

Microclimates
These areas of warmer, cooler, wetter or dryer climates in a landscape may be natural or you can create them yourself.   Stonescaping is a  common way to create a microclimate.  The stones absorb heat, moderate the soil temp, keep soil moist under the stone and create little pockets of shade, especially for the roots.  Use a large milk jug with the bottom cut out and place the jug over new plants to create a warm microclimate.  Place the cap on the jug if a cold night is forcast.

Use Mulch
Gravel mulch will warm the soil therefore extends the growing season.  A must!  Use gravel mulch around cacti, succulents and perennials that don’t like organic mulch.

Select Deer Resistant Plants
Select plants that don’t appeal to deer.  If you plant what is appealing to them, and plant it in abundance, they will eat what they like and leave certain plants alone.  Deer repellent or a barrier of some kind are also solutions.

While different, high altitude gardening is rewarding offering a garden that is spectacular and different from gardens at lower elevations.

Here is the weekly overview of the mortgage market from Wells Fargo.

The average 30-year fixed rate fell to 5.03% from 5.15%, the 15-year fixed rate fell to 4.64% from 4.72%, and the 1-year ARM fellto 4.80% from 4.86%.

The healing powers of nature await you with an on-site odorless hot springs soaking pool, lap pool, or 300-foot slide and cool pool at Mount Princeton Hot Springs Resort.  Indulge in pamperingspa treatments, unlimited outdoor recreation alternatives for every interest, gourmet meals and choice lodging.  This oasis is located in Nathrop, Colorado, 888-395-7799.

Colorado Mortgage Alliance

Here’s a recap of this week’s mortgage market. There is also a great graph showing historical rates for the most popular loan programs over the last year. A very compelling visual image: it’s a great time to lock in a mortgage rate!

Robin McGlone
Colorado Mortgage Alliance
Wells Fargo

Lucille Ball: She began studing to be an actress in 1927 and was told by the head instructor of the John Murray Anderson Drama School, “Try another profession. Any other.”

Clint Eastwood and Burt Reynolds: In 1959, a Universal Pictures executive dismissed them at the same meeting with the following statments.  To Burt Reynolds: “You have no talent.”   To Clint Eastwood: “You have a chip on your tooth, your Adam’s apple sticks out too far and you talk too slowly.”

Alexander Grahm Bell:  When he invented the telephone in 1876, it did not ring off the hook with calls from potential backers.  After making a demonstration call, President Rutherford Hayes said, “That’s an amazing invention, but who would ever want to use one of them?”

Thomas Edison:  He was one of the greatest inventors in American history.  When he first attended school in Port Huron, Michigan, his teachers complained that he was “too slow” and hard to handle. As a result, Edison’s mother decided to take her son out of school and teach him at home.  In his lifetime, Edison produced more that1300 invernetions.

Here is an article from the New York Times about Denver.  Americans, even in these tough times, still have a clear vision of “the good life”.  For many, that means moving; moving west to places like Denver, which is one of the top 5 most desired cities in which to live.