Volume 12 , Issue 38

Duchess Mountain Domain

We know we are a day late and a dollar short, as everyone else out there! It is Tuesday morning as I set my paws to the computer keyboard to write this column.

There is really no good reason that I can think of for being a day late. Only that the Fall temperatures here in the Southwest Colorado Rocky mountains has been great! Too great to stay inside hooked up to NW Okie's laptop. So I found me a sunny, cool spot outside by my humans pickup to watch nature passing by, as well as birds, chipmunks and dog walkers scurrying, enjoying and walking in the rocky mountains.

NW Okie answered our question of when we are heading towards Oklahoma this morning and says, "Maybe early Thursday morning!"

I read where Northwestern OSU began it homecoming week yesterday in the "Green space" on the northwest corner of the NWOSU campus. Will the crowd on the sidewalks around the downtown square be crowded as in past homecoming parade gatherings? I guess the parade starts this coming Saturday, 10:00a.m., traveling from the old armory around third street and Flynn Avenue. Remember in the past when the the parade started up at Northwestern campus and traveled down College Avenue (6th Street) to the downtown square and traveling counterclockwise around the square and ending the Washington Elementary school at Barnes Avenue and 7th Street?

NW Okie remembers those days of her young years! The smells of concessions stands serving homemade rolls, sloppy joes, chips and drinks. She also remembers her dad parking a car in front of the Dr. Pepper plant (where Radio shack is today) and reserving a spot for the elderly grownups to set and watch the parade come down College Avenue, while the youngsters got to sit on the high street curbs to watch the multitudes of big bands and elaborate floats march about a mile downtown to Washington Elementary school.

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