Neil and I went and looked at the new Lafayette park being built.  Wow, it’s crazy looking.  I took some photos which I’ll post soon.  After that we went to Crisis (more photos coming soon) and watched Stay Gold and watched Fuzz and Carleigh hang up some skate photos.  Then it was skate time.  The park was somewhat crowded, but it was warm out and a good vibe.  It’s funny seeing all the kids flock to Fuzz now since he’s the new shop owner and they all want their free stickers and sponsorship.  He handled it well except breaking his brand new Null deck on a flatground kickflip.  So funny.  It was such a bad kickflip, but all the kids were like “Wow, I’m not gonna get a Null, that’s bad”.  Ha.  Fuzz was trying so hard to be like “No, it’s just me, I’m fat and I landed bad”.  It was cracked bad, but he ended up skating it backwards and still ripped.  After some cruising around we ended up at the blue pad area for quite awhile.  Neil and Fuzz worked on and landed bluntslides  after doing front d’s from low to high on the porta potty (little pool coping qp) to hubba.  I was playing around and got a good line for me.  Manual, front feebs, back 5-0.  Then I started working on halfcab crooks.  I got a couple questionable ones before putting a decent (for me) one down where I grinded a couple feet.  So hyped on that.  Then we all tried crooks on the taller brown ledge.  Fuzz succeeded a lot, me once and Neil was close.  Then we cruised around doing whatever.  I posed a few kickflips over the rail, but didn’t have the commit feeling at all.  Not much happened after that.  Super fun night though.

Feeling better and after a long nap and dinner I picked up Jake around sunset and we ended up at Steelyards.  He had suggested Red Curbs, but the purist jerk in me doesn’t allow me to skate an indoor spot on a warm, dry night.  We’ll have more then enough time for Red Curbs this winter.  Anyways, wow, this was the first time in awhile I’ve had fresh legs.  Having only skated about 20 minutes in the last three days my legs felt amazing.  I manualed the long way first try and felt energized and good.  This is probably why my goal next year is going to be to NOT skate 300 days.  Ha.  Seriously though, refreshed legs are awesome.  Jake was skating pretty hard as usual.  He got a few manuals the long way.  Ollie up, kickflip off.  front 180 up, f/s half cab off.  front 180 up almost fakie back big off.  They put in some new bike racks which make it a bit harder to skate.  It messed with my nose manuals, but I eventually got one.  I tried manual front 180 out and didn’t get close.  Tried manual back shove out and came remotely close.  Next up was a game of SKATE where Jake was at SKAT in two tricks.  Kickflip and treflip.  He doubled or nothing’d both and missed.  Doh!  He made it close, but I ended up prevailing with a f/s halfcab flip.  Then I went back to trying kickflip up, treflip off.  Came close, but we got the boot.  Probably a good thing anyways as I was starting to feel sick again.

Still actually sick.  Thought I was getting better, but a short hike with the family and inlaws and I was worked.  Coughing like crazy and felt horrible.  Ugh.  I’ve used over half of my sick days now.

Still one of my favorite dudes I’ve met through Null.

See, John Denver wasn’t full of shit.  Some sunset photos from Monday night.Took a ton of tries to just barely get the end of a lightning bolt.First photo with the new fisheye and a cameo from Liz’s parents.  It’s blurry, not good!

Feeling slightly better I went to the Table Mesa are for a bit after Liz’s parents left for the night. I cruised around doing basically nothing for awhile before trying to manual the really long pad in front of the bank. I didn’t get remotely close for a while. Eventually I got about halfway, but I was still bummed on that. I can’t manual.

This one was an honest to goodness sick day. I got a good ol’ head cold, almost puked a couple times and felt horrible. I’m halfway through my sick days for the year now. Doh.

A cool and dreary fall day for once.  Neil came over and we watched the Orchard video to get hyped on street spots.  We headed out, picked up Carleigh and drove around looking for Jason.  After finding him we headed to Longmont, picked up Brian and went to the nearest USA loving gas station.  Next up was Rocky Mountain Elementary which is pretty much my favorite “spot” in Colorado.  Unfortunately I was feeling pretty stiff and old again.  We started out ollieing down the two stairs to warm up.  The worst part was having to get up the curb as a set up.  Ha.Everyone kinda warmed up at their own pace.  Me probably the slowest, although Brian was more into just chilling.  Bernie showed up and added a flat bar into the mix.  Carleigh was trying boardslides on the flat bar, noseslide shoves on the ledge.  Jason was doing front boards on the flat bar, front noseslides on the ledge.  Neil was doing front boards on the rail, front tails or lip attempts on the ledge.  Bernie was doing front lips on the flatbar, back or kick back tails on the ledge.  I messed around into the dirt bank for a bit, got a kcifklip in.  Then I was trying to kickflip over one of the brick sections.  Bernie took a photo of it that I would put up right now had he emailed it to me like he said he would.  Around the time Neil and Brian were ready to head out Bernie loaned his fisheye and filming skills to my new camera and Jason, Neil, Carleigh and I tried some lines.  I got really frustrated with the kickflip, but ended up getting it again and followed it with a quick crooks.  Carleigh got about 20 boardslides followed by noseslide shoves and then bailed pop shoves.  Neil one footed over the bricks then slammed on a crooks and was out for the rest of the day.  After I got my hammers I filmed Jason get a couple lines with front 180 over the bricks, halfcab noseslide the ledge, feeble the rail.  Carleigh got ollie over the bricks, kickflip over a grate then front 50 the ledge.  Bernie got kickflip to fakie over the bricks, halfcab a grate then front tail to switch manny off the curb.  Before leaving Bernie and I tried a few tricks into the dirt path.  Bernie did fakie manual and I did nose manual.  Decent day and we got mad footie son!

Met Bernie at Mike’s Camera to go in and look at camera stuff.  Bernie bought a new bag and lens while I did nothing other than ask Bernie if I can try out his old camera bag.  Awesome.  Then we cruised over to the manny pad for the last few minutes of light.  Skating a manny pad with Bernie is a treat.  He ripped it.  Kickflip manny drop to manny for awhile on accident so kickflip out.  Fakie manual.  He was trying back 180 fakie manual, but didn’t get it.  I was having one of those days where I felt pretty stiff and old.  I didn’t land much, but came close to kickflip manual, nollie shove manny and nose manual back shove out.  I say “close” but that only means I got into manual. It was a nice mellow little friday session.

This owl is so fun to watch for awhile at work.  He ate all the rabbits though so I think he’ll move on soon.  I wish I could have got a photo of him with my good camera.