Friday the 13th

Oh, boy! Friday the 13th -- just another great day in paradise. We ended up getting just over an inch of snow last night – just like a little powdered sugar on a donut. No shoveling required, but I did scrape the sidewalk in front of our stores on Main Street just so the sun could hit it and melt it off. It was supposed to snow today, but the sun has made an appearance all day through some high, hazy clouds. Someone in Silverton told me a few weeks ago that the only people who try to predict the weather in the San Juan Mountains of Southwestern Colorado are people new to the area and fools! Living here in the natural amphitheater we have learned to watch the weather radars and such, but until the weather gets here we never know what we’ll get – kinda like that Valentines Day box of chocolates.

There was a mention as part of a story arc in Doonesbury this week about the Telluride Film Festival. I actually made a post to the comments section on Thursday and mentioned that some people actually come to Ouray to escape Telluride. If you ever get a chance to visit the two locations I believe you will realize why quite a few tourists think along those lines.

Well, this is a triple-header weekend – Friday the 13th, Valentines Day, and Presidents’ Day. We are hoping for a good weekend business-wise, but just as we don’t try to predict the weather here, we don’t try to predict the customer traffic either until it actually happens. I’ll let you know.