I know, I know, I haven’t posted any photos of the house yet…. it’s in progress! But here are a few photos of the front yard during our recent snow storm. Amounts varied across the city, but I think we had 16″-18.” Further to the south and west the totals were around two feet. Looking [...]
As busy as Annie and I have been with our new project (we bought a house recently, and yes, are very behind in blogging about it), it was nice to just leave it all behind two weeks ago and get back into the mountains. We drove to Ouray, CO to meet my parents for a [...]
Monroe Organic Farms’ Harvest Festival was a couple of weekends ago, and Jeremy got to make his first visit to the farm. We had good food and got to see see several things for the first time- the farm’s cold storage pits, the apple cider press, the pop corn shucker, and the potato digger. There [...]
Two weekends ago, I attended a wonderful retreat in Vail with women from our young married group at church. It was a lovely, refreshing, relaxing, and yummy weekend. We cooked (squash and fennel soup with creme fraiche), we ate (black chocolate cake), we lounged, we hiked over hill and dell, we pondered survival skills, we [...]
This last school year I tutored two great kids, Jon and Emma. All summer the three of us would spend Friday mornings together reviewing school skills and doing kitchen science. These quick pics are from a rolypoly race we used to practice our time-telling skills. It was hard to say who won.