Given my history of pushing through recovery, workouts, yard work, and all the various reclamation projects, I trust your instincts here. When you’re truly avoiding something, you usually know it. This sounds more like you’re read of your body’s dashboard and noticing the “rest recommended” light has come on.
🌙 Heating pad on low 🛋️ Comfortable position acquired 😴 Nap possibility increasing 🚜 Ryobi standing by 🏡 HOA nowhere in sight
Not a bad status report for a Monday morning.
May your nap be deep enough to be refreshing and short enough that you don’t wake up wondering what year it is.
In Colorado, morning cannabis use isn’t one-size-fits-all anymore. What used to be lumped into a single stereotype—wake and bake—has quietly evolved into something more nuanced.
Let’s break it down.
☀️ Wake & Bake (The Classic)
This is the version everyone recognizes.
Roll out of bed. Light up. Start the day elevated.
It’s ritual. It’s habit. Sometimes it’s just how the day begins without much thought beyond “let’s go.”
The vibe here leans recreational:
Immediate lift
Loose structure
See-where-the-day-goes energy
There’s nothing mysterious about it—it’s been around forever, and it still has its place.
☕ Functional Morning Use (The Colorado Shift)
Now here’s where things get interesting.
A lot of seasoned users aren’t diving straight into the deep end anymore. Instead, it looks more like:
Coffee first
A couple controlled hits
Then ease into the day
This isn’t about getting blasted. It’s about dialing things in.
The goal:
Smooth out the edges
Lift mood
Manage pain
Stay clear enough to actually do life
It’s intentional. Measured. Almost like adjusting a thermostat instead of flipping a switch.
🧠 It Comes Down to Intent
Same plant. Same time of day. Completely different outcomes.
Wake & Bake: “Let’s get high.”
Functional Use: “Let’s get right.”
That shift—from chasing the high to shaping the day—is where a lot of Colorado users land over time.
🔄 The Evolution
Experience changes the relationship.
What starts as wake-and-bake energy often turns into something more refined:
Less about escape
More about balance
Less autopilot, more awareness
And yeah, sometimes that just means one extra pull with your morning coffee—not because you need it, but because you know exactly what it does.
It’s Mr. George from WP. That alone kind of freaked me out—nobody calls that early unless something’s wrong, especially from Mr. George. But I answered anyway. Turns out he was “just” already bored at 8 AM on his first day off of the week.
The last time the G-man called me was about a while ago when they had a mechanical issue on the gondola and had to break the ropes out. He gave me a full play-by-play of what was happening up there. Later that night I saw the same story on 9News.
Today’s report from GMan: a couple of his lift maintenance snowmobiles were tied up dealing with kids and moms who were wandering into the closed lift area down by the snowmaking pond. Apparently that’s the first morning adventure of the day.
I apologized for not calling him lately. Truth is, we just haven’t been heading up there much. The snow kind of sucks right now, and when the snow sucks, the motivation to make the trip in traffic disappears pretty fast.
Still, it was good hearing from him. Funny how a random 8 AM phone call can suddenly drop a little WP into a quiet morning down here.
It snowed last night and the wind is gusting up to 30 mph. That’s the kind of weather that politely suggests staying home and minding your business.
Because of that, we’re not making the trip to Fort Collins to visit my folks today. No sense wrestling the roads when they’re in a bad mood. We’ll try again next week when Colorado decides to behave itself.
It’s My Life 