Denver Post: Living

First stop: Colorado Springs. Second stop: Park Meadows. Third stop: Fort Collins?
California-based — and cult-followed — In-N-Out Burger this week submitted concept plans to build a drive-thru restaurant in Fort Collins.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Have you ever been in a restaurant and watched as some uncouth guy at the next table blew his nose in his napkin, licked his knife clean and then went to work with a toothpick?More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Two friends — one is a horticulturist, the other a distiller — go foraging for missing ingredients in a garden a mile above the sea. It’s here that they come across an abundance of lemon verbena.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

There is a corner in Golden where gluten does not exist. In this gluten-free utopia (glutopia?), the sun shines brighter, the mountains rise higher, the sky burns a few shades bluer.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Dear Amy: My father just turned 70 years old. He and my mom divorced when he turned 50, because he was having an affair with a younger woman, “Cherie.” My siblings and I eventually accepted Cherie and grew quite fond of her.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Whether you like hard seltzer or not, it’s hard to ignore just how popular this refreshing alcoholic beverage became this summer in Colorado and beyond.
But what will become of this fizzy, low-calorie drink now that pool parties are a distant, sunny memory and many of Colorado’s patios are closing up shop for the winter?More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

The Lotus Flower Tower, a 2,200-foot wall in the Cirque of the Unclimbables in Canada’s Northwest Territories, is considered one of the world’s great climbing walls and is listed in the guidebook “Fifty Classic Climbs of North America.” Arvada resident Maureen “Mo” Beck, who was born without a left hand, and Jim Ewing, a climber from Maine who is a below-the-knee amputee, climbed it in August 2018 with a film crew documenting the adventure.

Dear Amy: I am entering my 14th year as a military spouse. Four years ago, I created a “home base” in my hometown area because I could no longer handle military life.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

Dear Amy: Recently, I went to join my two closest friends and their husbands at “Betsy’s” lake house. I arrived early. My friends had gone into town.
Betsy’s husband was sitting outside, and I walked down and said hello, but he didn’t knowledge me.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share

By Scott Mercier, Special To The Aspen Times
Old man winter arrived early and has turned the Roaring Fork Valley into a winter wonderland. For most, this has us salivating for the lifts to start spinning.More | Talk | Read It Later | Share