Now we wait for Winchell's...

Just in case there are others like myself who rarely check reddit any more, I thought it would be helpful to cross-post this. It won't look like much unless you have the solar eclipse glasses, but I plan to break out my tracker and camera (with solar filters!) to try and get some pics.

The Butterfly Pavilion, a new public art installation in Longmont, celebrates over 25 years of partnership between the cities of Longmont and Ciudad Guzmán, Mexico, through the Longmont Sister Cities Association.

The 12-foot pavilion in Flanders Park is colored in vibrant blues, reds and yellows and gives visitors a full view of nearby McIntosh Lake. Guests who sit on its covered benches can look up to see monarch butterflies made of hand-forged steel perched across the roof, as if ready to take flight at any moment.

Visitors sit inside the Butterfly Pavilion. The piece celebrates the 26-year relationship between the sister cities of Longmont and Ciudad Guzmán, Mexico. (Matthew Jonas - Staff Photographer) Visitors sit inside the Butterfly Pavilion. The piece celebrates the 26-year relationship between the sister cities of Longmont and Ciudad Guzmán, Mexico. (Matthew Jonas – Staff Photographer) “To me, butterflies are a wonderful symbol of growth and transformation,” said Jodie Bliss,

I have two pieces of siding that need to be replaced (or at least sanded down and repainted) and some caulking that needs to be replaced around exterior windows.

Anyone have a handyman that they’d recommend?

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I've seen some baskets around, does anyone know where a fella can get more information on disc golf courses in town? The fam was thinking they'd like to try playing.

Usually we see some potholes at the end of the snow season which get repaired fairly quickly... but this year... oh boy. Seems like they didn't start showing up until all the rain hit, and then they were everywhere, and so far I've seen very few getting fixed (and some that were fixed have opened up again).

My SUV has been pulling hard to the right the last few weeks. I finally got a chance to jack it up today, checked the wheel bearings and A-frames as the common culprits. Instead what I found is the lower A-frame has actually been pulled over on one side by nearly 1/2". I moved it back to roughly where it's supposed to be so I'm not tearing up my tire until I can get in for a proper alignment, but sheesh, could we maybe get some crews out to start patching the worst of the potholes at least? Usually our fair city is so quick on getting these things fixed!

Bummed to see La Vita Bella closing, but am interested to see what the new owner of this space has in mind

Like Mastodon, Lemmy is a federated group of servers, however in order for a server (also known as an 'instance') to be aware of content from another instance, someone has to let that server know the community exists...

In my case, my home is on mander.xyz. If I go to the communities tab and search for Longmont, nothing comes up. From the post on reddit I knew that the home of this group is at "https://lemmy.ml/c/longmont" so I simply put that whole string in the community search, and that tells my server of its existence. Then I can immediately go back and search for "Longmont" again, and now the group shows up and allows me to subscribe to it.

And of course this works for any other communities you are interested in, but which aren't hosted on the Lemmy server you have an account with. Once you or someone else on your server has subscribed to a community, anyone else on your server will also now immediately see that community without needing the full path.

I think they call themselves "potluck band" or something like that. They play every Saturday morning at the "Tempietto" in Thompson Park, weather permitting. Next week they'll start at 9:30 AM.