May 20th, 2013
we have the most special guest visiting, mama mia is in town!! so of course we are already running here, there, and everywhere in just the first few days. we’ve thrifted (found some goodies, and wanted to steal one out of a girls cart when she wasn’t looking… i resisted, sadly), walks around the lake, watched the burbs (mom had somehow missed this must-see classic) and introduced her to cast iron skillet pizza, have tons more of everything planned. but to start….
we visited betasso preserve and hiked the canyon loop trail. it was a nice trail, a lot of in-the-forest hiking versus big scenery, we’re learning that we all like either big views along the way or something super exciting at the end like our hikes to the fire tower or isabelle glacier. but! we like to try new and this is super close to us, just on the outskirts of boulder, and, it’s just down the road from boulder falls which was amazing!! one last note on the canyon loop trail, it was packed with mountain bikers and if that’s your sport i think you would love it. it’s challenging (or seemed like it would be to all of us), but well groomed; as a hiker the trail is less of an uphill climb if you follow the direction that bikers are required to go (we thankfully, unknowingly, went this way) but if you want all uphill go the opposite. and phoo, one big group of bikers saw three bears but we missed them, not sure if this is good or a missed opportunity. (;
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May 13th, 2013
hello monday! this little beauty popped up in the middle of our green but haphazard and full of weeds yard. perfectly pale lemon and almost the only non-dandelion flower we’ve got. i found it while struggling with the eco-friendly, all man-powered mower that we have. let’s just say the yard looks like it was mowed by a blind person. push mowers and weeds are apparently arch enemies and the weeds are clear winners. that mower plows through real grass with no problem but give it a weedy strand and it is powerless. a year ago we had nothing but dirt so i’m really not complaining.
we worked our tails off on a diy this weekend that will (hopefully) be one hundred percent by the end of day today so i’ll be able to show off why we are both (the husband and i) sore and stiff. so short and sweet today peeps, we’re finishing our weekend project, and the new closet door, and one more diy. no time for dilly-dallying.
i must pause to say how grateful we are that sunshine and warm days are upon us this week. we, in-between working, soaked up some sun this weekend and it was glorious. we hung with neighbors and even had an impromptu dance party in the living room one night. and lastly, the diy we worked on all weekend, more proof of how much that husband of mine loves me. it didn’t have to be done, but i really really really wanted it and he not only obliged but didn’t complain and even might have said a time or two that it was a really good thing. ♥.
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April 29th, 2013
kiddos, we had a really good weekend. it. is. official. sunshine fueled vitamin d is a must-have for this mrs. lately i have been feeling like someone strapped into a roller coaster with miss mini meltdown. until i mentioned to the husband that maybe i was going just this side of crazy, i hadn’t known what to think.
i couldn’t believe it when he instantly said, no way, i know what it is, it’s the weather. the gray skies, zero sunshine for weeks, that is your problem. and thank you very much, i think that man was right. the sun was out in full force this weekend and i’m back to my old self. and very relieved.
in other fun news, our super cute neighbors dave & kate got engaged! it was on the agenda for someday, but miss kate had no idea it was going to be this week and we are very excited for them, brought back lots of remember when stories. we had coconut margaritas (totally addicted now) and home-made mexican food with some amazing southern friends (that share my alma mater), love having some arkansas peeps just up the road from us, the south doesn’t seem so far away now.. (;
and do you see how cute that man of mine is… he came out wearing pastels and first thing i asked was .. what are you buttering me up for? because honey, i do love him in preppy pastel head-to-toe goodness. couldn’t stop looking at him.
lastly, a special shout out to my girlfriend lindsey.. she was recently bestowed the honor of blog of the month by mr jamie oliver and his food revolution team, lightning the world on fire my dear! and today is her special day, your edgewater peeps are thinking of you and sending you big wishes!! xoxo
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April 15th, 2013
we had a major milestone this weekend, our final yard sale. finito forever! i feel like i can honestly say this because the process of getting rid of almost everything has taught me (when i didn’t think there was any more to learn on the subject of downsizing stuff) more at each turn, and every sale, and every trip to the goodwills of the world. and now that we’re here, at this place of super simplified, we don’t intend to go backwards.
i am a big fan of getting-rid-of. i think stuff that gets kept for maybe someday, it was a gift.. i can’t get rid of it, i paid so much for it, basically anything other than flat out love, prevents more good from coming into the now. it’s similar to the theory that a clenched fist can’t grab anything because it’s already full and closed off to new (and potentially fabulous). i’m always surprised at how much storage people want in their home, if it’s in storage (minus holiday and a few memory keepsakes) what’s the difference anyway? do you go look through your boxes once a week and visit all that stuff? each to their own though, my purpose and story isn’t to say get rid of it all! but to share what it’s done for us having let go of more than we would have ever imagined.
what he and i want our home filled with is friends and laughter and dinner parties and birthdays and holidays and fun. because this house just fits us, not too big or too small, it eliminates a lot of purchases because there isn’t anywhere to stuff it (well… technically there is, hoarding is always an option, haha!). we instead have open space to sit and dance and eat and have 2 or 25 friends over. have you ever not wanted company because your house was a mess, or you had to scramble to cram things in the closets? although this is not something we’ve ever had an issue with (we love to entertain so not much stops us),
i know so many people who don’t have friends visit for this very reason. even though we haven’t dealt with that, our downsizing to 528 sq. ft. has freed us up even more. we can clean and straighten the house in ten minutes flat and be raring to go. our memories will be made sharing time with each other, with friends, traveling, cooking, and hopefully making a difference in others lives.
so that’s it we think, we’ve had more than our fair share of yard sales to last us a lifetime anyway. they’ve all been worth it but i also have to say that giving things away is just as good. i’ve given away so much stuff it rattles my brain. i gave away to kids, strangers, and neighbors (despite their kicking and screaming) yesterday, and i’m not sure there is a friends house that i couldn’t go in and say, hey! that used to be in our house. (; if you love it, need it, or it’ll look good on you, rest assured i’m going to send it home with you.
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April 8th, 2013
over the mtns, through nederland co ↑ to lunch in boulder ↓
and home again ↓
how was your weekend peeps? we were very productive. 2 diy projects were checked off the list and i cannot wait to show you them tomorrow. totally smitten with ourselves and what we’ve done. (; plus the big biggie that is only waiting for me to get off my butt and get the post in order to show you, this week foh sho.
we also took a morning roadtrip and drove from edgewater, through the mountains, on a (why-do-i-forget-this-road-is-SO-curvy) loop going through some tee tiny towns and ending in boulder. skipped breakfast so we could indulge in vegan sandwich goodness from native foods (we first ate here in palm springs and hip hip hooray for one so close to us now!), of course i had the reuben. strolled the streets a little too full, then drove the back roads home again.
hung with the neighbors a little, cooked some crispy tofu (working on the perfect tastes-like-fried-chicken-but-it’s-tofu), finished season 7 of dexter and oh my. we love that show and are supremely disappointed that season 8 is the end. ); do you watch it? snow is on the forecast for tuesday, with heavy accumulation (according to weather.com), and i don’t think i need to spell out what i think about that _______.
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March 25th, 2013
thank heavens for high desert air. it’s obviously cold enough to bring a foot of snow in springtime, but it’s walk around town without freezing in too. we’re both feeling nostalgic for a southern springtime but to be able to get out and play in the snow bundled, but not michelin man bundled, and not feel frostbitten is a saving grace. i do not know how minnesotans and all other bitterly cold weather dwellers do it, i would be running for the delta. this snow for a day with full sunshine the next i can handle, but i won’t mind if it’s the last hurrah either.
i am feeling more and more thankful for my southern roots. having never left the south before it was something that just was. i’m southern, i do southern things, speak in southern ways, have southern manners. these are not things that take any amount of pondering when that’s all you’ve ever known. now, having spent time outside of the south, i could not be more aware of what all that means to me. i have a kinship with a whole legion of people just by geography. i have southern dna, and with one ma’am, sir, or
i suwannee, an understanding between myself and another southerner is instantly established. i had that, have that, but now i am deeply aware of it, it is more of a living, breathing part of me than it was before.
without colorado i wouldn’t have this newfound awareness and along with many other things i am thankful for, this one is at the top of my list.
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March 11th, 2013
this video made me laugh so hard that i was practically crying, hilarious.. but i never evah want to have friends like those. we also watched argo and wow. i was stressed watching it, it’s that good. and if you missed (or want to watch again) ben affleck’s academy award speech, it’s touching and made me appreciate the movie and his work on it even more.
do you ever completely unplug? yesterday i didn’t turn on the computer for even a minute, and while i won’t always do this, it was a really nice, relaxing day. sometimes the computer is nothing but fun (hello pinterest!) but even when just for a day it felt good to unwind one hundred percent. we were very lazy,
and watched a lot of snow fall. (maybe the last one of the season? maybe?)
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March 4th, 2013
have you seen the big year or midnight in paris (or both)? we had a little owen wilson weekend and passion is what i took from both films. i don’t want to run all over creation looking at birds but to have that kind of zest for anything is really amazing, same for loving a certain time period and delving into it (and then learning no era could ever replace the one you’re actually living). if asked what you were most passionate about (aside from your family) what would you say it was? i so wish this was what people asked in party conversations versus what – do – you – do? oof. not that work/career can’t be a great topic of conversation, it’s just too easy, too default.
on friday we acted like people who stay up late and went out downtown to watch a multi-band show, half were good and half were T total torture to listen to; but we went with good friends and it was fun and only one of us fell asleep at the venue (and it was neither him nor i, so there). i am not the best to stay up till two a.m., midnight is my magic number, midnight and the next day i have no residual tiredness. still, i was not the one who could not make it thru saturday sans nap.
in other, very unimportant news, pb2 has revolutionized my green smoothies. this stuff is nothing short of amazing and i’ll never be able to do without it now and sometimes having dear husband snap a photo of me seems odd, i am the photo-taker in our house and so take many more of him than vice/versa. having never been good at albums, and for sure not scrapbooking, i am more and more appreciative of having this space to try and capture us. this little corner that we’ll always have to look back at.. and so maybe it’s not so bad to have him snap away once in awhile (although he only offers when i’m getting dressed, now that’s a picture he’ll say… men).
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February 18th, 2013
i think all bloggers (unless making exceedingly crazy amounts of money from their blog) wonder now and then if it’s worth the time and commitment, i know i certainly have had my moments. i started this blog when we left north carolina to travel the country in our airstream, it was my way of journaling (which i have never been good at) where we went, what we saw, life on wheels not to be forgotten. it has grown into documenting our extensive diy house renovations, current travels, and life at home one day at a time with a few frivolities thrown in here and there. in those moments when i wonder is it worth it i look back through the archives and am literally flabbergasted by how far our house has come (i most certainly would never have documented it so closely had i not been blogging); and the places we traveled, which i would have taken photos of for sure, but those photos would be on a disc or a virtual file, unorganized for the most part, and not so easily brought up by town/city/state to reminisce over. yesterday we went to redrocks for a hike (is this smart the first day of not feeling completely exhausted, maybe not, but it was so worth it) and without this spot on the web i might not have taken these photos, but because of it i stop more frequently to document our footsteps and now i’ll have this snapshot forever. for those of you who follow along with us, thank you, it’s nice to share a little bit of our life with people we might never have connected with if not for blogging, i’m glad you’re here with us. happy monday….
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