250th With The Fam ~ Porkies, F1, And Bar Hop 04Jul26

With LPC still under repair and the Silverstone F1 race weekend we headed to Denver to enjoy July 4th weekend. Kala & I spun up in the FlyBox and MLC tooled over in Linux. We scored the garage as there was weather pending ~ thanks Kala & Letha. We can't be out ripping with the team but display the logo proudly. For the Great Britain Grand Prix, Kimi in Mercedes again took pole with the Ferarris close; Kimi's car failed late and Charles LeClerc brought is Ferarri home to the checkered flag first. Grest for him; good for Ferrari showing competitive with the Mercedes cars; fun for the Alpine Rippers fantasy league. Good for the Coffin's to be out in the sports cars and best was LPC with stunning progress on the new hip. Dave made eggs and we watched the race.

 

After the post-race interviews and shows, we birthed a July 4th celebration scheme to catch  some brews and such in the 'hood. We started at the Lowry Beer Garden )Hanger 2) outside (but hot in the shade). We moved to Cerebral's main brewing location in Aurora and enjoyed their many great recipes; Cerebral is my fav in DEN and I'd not been to the big spot. Then, Matt noted a nearby well-reviewed cidery and we stopped by there. Vanishing West was very good despite the sweetness. It was a nice day out with the kid.

Happy 250th.

F1 & Golf With Matt; Vino With Brantleys 08Jul23-09Jul23

It was a great weekend with MLC on the golf courses, dining, and catching Formula 1. Saturday morning we did an "alpine start" to get to Kennedy Golf Course for a 6:10am tee time with Matt. The course is Matt's home course and only 5 min from his apartment. The course was in great shape and Kala played very well as we walked the West 9.

We moved back to Matt's place to catch F1 qualifying and enjoyed Lando Norris & McLaren delivering on their throw down upgrade tweets by actually capturing the P2 starting spot for the British Grand Prix @ Silverstone, the birthplace of F1. We like Lando. After, we headed to a nice Korean BBQ place and enjoyed a comprehensive feast on our personal table grill. We all grabbed a pickup item at the flagship REI (and rambled mostly aimlessly through there to get it) and then Kala & I headed back to COS.

Once in COS we noted the arrival of Matt's Schitt dac/amp box there, just a few hours late for us to have taken it up to Denver. NP, we invited Matt down to grab it and watch the British Gran Prix with us on Sunday. He accepted and again we were stoked to see Lando turn his outside front row starting position into a P2 podium spot for the race ~ he was F1 driver of the day of course. It's good news that McLaren has made mods making them much more competitive ~ except of course against Max's Red Bull. We hit Il Vicino before heading to Kansas (ok, almost, Falcon near Blue Sky) to play Antler Creek. The afternoon was pretty toasty but we had another fine outing on the links. The course was in poor shape and we forged streams on 8 crossings through deep water but yeah AC's signature 9th-13th holes were awesome ~ killer but awesome.

Matt headed home with the Schitt. Sunday night we were able to host the world traveling Brantleys on the Blodgett deck. What a blast of good nosh, plenty of SLO vino, solid solutions to world issues, and cool evening scenes over Blodgett Pk.