Archive for November, 2015

pronghorn oil painting on beetle kill pine

Posted on November 9th, 2015 by mountain girl  |  7 Comments »

Here’s that new piece of art I mentioned the other day.  Pronghorn are not common up here in the Rockies (at least, I’ve never seen them here), but whenever we take a road trip to Santa Fe, we always spot a herd or two in the desert.  They are striking with their tan, white, and […]



zia’s science fair project

Posted on November 7th, 2015 by mountain girl  |  2 Comments »

We were pretty stoked when Zia’s study on Fruit Decay took 2nd place for her grade level at the science fair Thursday.  Her friend Lola got 1st, which made both of them very happy. 🙂  There were lots of ties (one was a 5-way tie!) which I actually thought was nice, since more kids got […]



copper post wraps

Posted on November 5th, 2015 by mountain girl  |  3 Comments »

I know I said I’d post beetle kill art this time, but I’m going to save it for later–this is too exciting to wait! (Not that beetle kill isn’t exciting, LOL.)  When we bought our home, there were a few small unfinished parts, such as the uncovered jacks at the bottom of the support posts.  […]



harvest carnival and costume parade

Posted on November 1st, 2015 by mountain girl  |  4 Comments »

We went to this little free harvest carnival at CCU yesterday. The kids got lots of candy (mostly to sell to the dentist) and there were bouncy houses, tractor pull rides, ponies, cotton candy, sno cones, popcorn, and ring-toss types of games which they played over and over. Caleb and Lauryn came too, but they […]