Well, this has been quite a week. I saw it happening on Facebook and on the news but I couldn’t believe my eyes.  Up here secluded in Ned it looked like it was just raining a lot.  Nothing out of the ordinary happening – you know, our usual power outages, cabin fever, roads rutting out. But down in Boulder a full fledged natural disaster was unfolding.  What the heck was happening? We (us mountain people) were usually the ones who got zonked by Mother Nature. Now we were actually watching it happen to our friends and neighbors down the hill.  And we couldn’t even lend a helping hand being trapped up here with virtually no escape because the canyon road was indefinitely closed. You think you have everything all planned out and then, pow, out of the blue something happens to shake your whole world. And you wonder – were all those little things I thought so important really that important?