Posted on May 21st, 2015 by mountain girl | 6 Comments »
WINTERRRRRRRBRRRRR!!!!! Here are our last couple of days in photos–not so much to mourn them as to record them–since today it’s warming up! If I even dare say it. A very old neighbor once told me that the year-round climate of our neighborhood here is identical to that of Anchorage, where he and his wife […]
Posted on May 19th, 2015 by mountain girl | 3 Comments »
Noooooooooooooooo!!!!! Not again! Now we understand why the locals leave their Christmas lights up all year round… It just ain’t worth it to take ’em down, Hezekiah. You’re right, Mabel. The snowman will barely have time to melt before summer’s over. Let’s just leave the tree up this year, too.
Posted on April 17th, 2015 by mountain girl | 4 Comments »
With 24 inches of snow outside our door, I thought I’d relive some recent warm, happy days. Not that snow makes us unhappy, of course. To take up the mantra of Coloradans everywhere, We need the moisture. Which is definitely true. I made a vegan cashew cheesecake for David’s welcome home/birthday celebration. It was super yummy […]
Posted on April 3rd, 2015 by mountain girl | 3 Comments »
Well, it’s winter here again. I took Caleb to meet the ski bus this morning, and cars were slipping all over the icy, snow-covered roads. The sun is shining, but the temperature seems stuck at 18 degrees and the goats scarcely want to poke their heads out of the barn. David is five days into […]
Posted on March 29th, 2015 by mountain girl | 10 Comments »
Hi! It’s 50 degrees outside, which is a lovely hot day in the mountains, especially since this is normally our heaviest snow season. (This kid still has his coat on in the picture, but I quickly ripped that thing off.) Get out the swimsuits, slather on the coconut oil, make some popsicles, and pleeeeeeease don’t […]