Jan 8 2020 GATE PROJECT We moved into our new place in May after 2 years of trying to find something that wasn’t just the regular house butted up to our neighbors in the suburbs but that wasn’t so far

Jan 6th 2020 (Please visit my blog: for the podcast recording of this post) The first week of 2020 and my desk’s skattered with books and clippings, notepads and rulers and planners, plant lists, PT exercises,

Found this 1950 5$ bill the other day at work. Not too often you find one of these so I thought I’d share!

This is the trip we took that made us decide that it was time to sell the van. Our beloved Althea, the 88 Volkswagon Westfalia. It was partly me being pregnant, there being 100 degree weather and no AC,

I love the Dead, but no, I never saw them play and I didn’t know anything about them until long after Jerry was playing from some other astral realm. I don’t really want to go see the band play at this

It's been a while. Over 10 days since I've written. I've got less than 8 weeks until our due date, still so surreal these shifts and movements inside me. A child. I'm still not grounded to it. I've read

Alright so I saw this adorable blanket on Etsy for something like $70 and since I’m about to have a little munchkin of my own I figured I wanted one. But I’m the type that hates buying things when I know

(this is what it’s supposed to look like… not what mine look like!) Alright so with my first natural dyeing attempts I’ve had both failures and successes… That’s what learning’s all about right?! Same

Alright so my first attempt with Nettles was a failure… But I learned from it. Next I tried natural dyeing with black beans which is a no heat method and got some pretty cool results. But my third try,

Alright so my first attempt with Nettles was a failure… But I learned from it. Next I tried natural dyeing with black beans which is a no heat method. Supplies: Big Pot (Don’t use it for anything but Dyeing!)

Not able to do my normal heavy lifting I’ve been trying to find some alternative pastimes that keep me outside and entertained without having to use power tools. Natural Dyeing had been on my radar and

Here’s a little showcase of the herbs and flowers that bloomed in my garden this summer! Wild Violets These beauties have shown up in a few places in my yard and the clumps get bigger every year. They

Haven’t been around much this summer, this post is partly why… I don’t really know what to say about the whole thing other than that she’s a little girl expected early December and if you’ve never been

Spring and Summer tear me away from my desk. The leaves and sunshine and the mountains and fresh warm air pull me outside and I can't seem to be bothered with the virtual world. I'm starting to find that

Alright so it’s been a while so let me update you on Andy’s camper! He’s done some really nice work on it. You saw he tore out all the rot which was more than he’d expected and he put it all back together

I haven't been around on Steemit much lately because things are crazy around here! Work payed for me to take a Spanish conversation class so I go to that class twice a week. I'm almost finished with my

Trill turned 11 years old this month and guess who is staying with us while my folks are on an extended vacation… Tasha, Trillium’s mom. Trill is a black lab but Tasha is a chocolate lab. She’s 13 and

Last class was a bit boring but today's class was certainly more interesting. The first half of class we got a lecture on Wildlife Management and after lunch learned about the diverse and amazing geology

Our 4th day of class we learned about the “Living Map” which is this giant role out map of Boulder County that we usually use with kids to teach them about all different things from ecosystems across

For over a year we’ve been looking at properties. We looked in the Northwest and even into Alaska but came back to Boulder, Colorado and have decided that the place we started is the place our search will