Author: psoeth

I have a loving wife and two wonderful kids living in a suburb near Denver, Colorado. I love soccer and doing things with my family.
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Driving through the plains

A couple of weeks ago I went for drive in the eastern plains. I started out in Greeley through Brush and Byers back home. I just needed to get out during this new normal.

Fort Morgan, the eastern plains, and Last Chance.
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Happy Easter

Happy Easter from Colorado as we are social distancing.

It was 72 degrees yesterday and it’s now 30. We received some snow overnight, enough to cover the pansies.

Snow on Easter Sunday
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The referees made some serious errors on Saturday night in Colorado v Real Salt Lake match

There were several errors in the Colorado Rapids and the Real Salt Lake match. Unfortunatley they all went against the Rapids and all happened to involve Video Assistance Referee decisions.

Video Assistance Review, also known as VAR, in Major League Soccer was supposed to get ride of the controversy surrounding the calls. However, the way it was implemented has not worked out that way with referees going to look at video reviews too often.

The perfect example of it was last week when Ted Unkel used VAR to overturn a goal when he got in the way of a player saying their was a foul when there wasn’t. That play should never have gone to VAR, even the referee organization said so.

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Don’t move to Denver unless you like snow in May

For those wanting to move to Denver, just now that it is May 9 and the temperature is just over freezing and it’s snowing. It’s been snowing since last night.

It's 38 degrees with snow flurries around
Current weather in the metro Demver area

Spring may show up someone, but we never know.

Oh. It could snow over Fourth of July weekend too. I’ve seen it happen.