Stock show is coming
Need a holiday gift idea? Stuff that empty stocking with a couple of tickets to the 2012 National Western Stock Show, which arrives in town Jan. 7. Visit for details, schedules and tickets.
Holiday evening at Rock Ledge Ranch
Take a swing down south and visit Rock Ledge Ranch on Saturday from 4 to 8 p.m. for wagon rides, a barn dance, and cider and cookies aplenty. Just off the Garden of the Gods Road; visit for details.
Happy birthday, Ludwig van Beethoven
Everyone’s favorite grouchy German composer — one of history’s great geniuses by any measure — would be 241 on Friday. Anyone for an “Ode to Joy”?
Ode to Joy
Makes 1 drink.
Ingredients
1 ounce calvados
1 ounce yellow chartreuse
Splash dry vermouth
Directions
Stir together all ingredients over ice. Strain into a cocktail glass. Be joyous!
