One of titty bars gentlemen’s clubs over in the nearby suburb of Glendale had a sign up the other day offering topless gift wrapping. Go in for a lap dance and get your wife’s presents wrapped. I guess that’s one way of drumming up business in a down economy.
Archive for the ‘neighborhood’ Category
Topless Gift Wrapping
Posted in neighborhood on December 21, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Ferdinand
Posted in my life, neighborhood on September 2, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Ferdinand, our cat, has become the darling of the neighborhood. Many neighbors have told us they love him because he is so friendly. Some feed him. Others let him into their houses where he will take a nap. I stop counting the number of neighbors who have called (the tag on his [...]
A Post About Nothing
Posted in friends, my life, neighborhood on May 8, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’ve been trying to compose a post all day. Nothing seems to be working out. I thought about writing about the new property assessments that has the neighborhood in an uproar. Our house went up 115k. I have to talk to K about this issue. Then I thought about writing about my post-op visit to [...]
Miscellaneous Post
Posted in my life, neighborhood on April 27, 2009 | 2 Comments »
K left today for another three week stint in Missouri. He was home for the weekend and we had a good time together. We finally finished up the spring yard clean up just in time before the rain started falling. The rain has now turned into snow.
This weekend our neighbors invited us over to check [...]
Hermès is Here!
Posted in my life, neighborhood on April 23, 2009 | 1 Comment »
There’s an article in the Denver Post this morning about the opening of the Hermès store in Cherry Creek North. The store is across the street from Neiman-Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue in a new high end mixed use development (condos and retail). Hermès is now the crown jewel in the Cherry Creek shopping district. [...]
Bon Voyage!
Posted in my life, neighborhood on April 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Saturday evening K and I attend a going away party for our neighbors, K & M, who joined the Peace Corp. K is a psychiatrist and M is a psychiatric nurse (there are three psychiatrists that live within a few houses of each other on the street west of our house). They will be stationed [...]
The Mystery Man
Posted in neighborhood on April 6, 2009 | 2 Comments »
When I returned from San Francisco I noticed that one our neighbors had put their house up for sale. The house is on the east side of our street and five lots north of our house. According to the listing the house last sold in 1999. Here’s the strange part of this story. K and [...]
Neighborhood News
Posted in neighborhood on February 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
The lesbian couple who are expanding and remodeling a house around the corner are in hot water with their neighbors to the south. The women decided to build a brick wall along the south side of the back yard that matches the existing wall the runs along the north and east sides of their yard. [...]
Is It Greed?
Posted in neighborhood on January 19, 2009 | 4 Comments »
A few years ago a developer scraped a house and built a new “spec” home in the neighborhood south of our house. This neighborhood does not have covenants or an architectural control committee. The builder was allowed to build any style of house as long as it met city building codes. The builder chose to [...]
What Recession?
Posted in my life, neighborhood on January 12, 2009 | 2 Comments »
A few days ago an article in the Rocky Mountain News predicted that the Colorado unemployment rate would rise to 6.5%. Two days later the paper printed several articles about new real estate projects in Denver. One developer is building nine brownstones in Cherry Creek that range in price from $1,000 per square foot to [...]
