Archive for the ‘Colorado’ Category

friday outing

Posted on August 16th, 2014 by mountain girl  |  6 Comments »

The kids have Fridays off school, so we went swimming in the morning, then headed to Nederland.  There are lots of fun things to do in Ned (besides the grow shops, of course). 🙂 We hit the gem store, the health foods co-op, and the Rustic Moose gift shop. On our way through town we […]



a walk to the park

Posted on August 14th, 2014 by mountain girl  |  2 Comments »

On our walk this morning, Cash didn’t want to go our usual way–he had the park in mind.  I took a roundabout way that brought us to the park after about an hour. We spotted our house from this road-can you see it? Home sweet home! Along the way, we saw a couple of golden […]



trail ride

Posted on July 26th, 2014 by mountain girl  |  3 Comments »

When I was a kid, I had a heather gray screen printed t-shirt that I wore every single day unless it was absolutely filthy.  On it was a photograph of running horses, and above it read, in that lovely ’80’s cursive: I’d rather be riding.  For me it was true.  I spent all my time […]



one more birthday celebration

Posted on July 16th, 2014 by mountain girl  |  4 Comments »

Our friend Cindy’s birthday is July 13th, the day after mine.  We went hiking in Golden Gate Canyon State Park to celebrate. She turned 60!  She is so fun to be around she seems ageless. We don’t see each other very often, but when we do, we spend most of our time talking and laughing […]



sunshine days

Posted on May 19th, 2014 by mountain girl  |  11 Comments »

Park weather, finally!  Yahooooooooo. Between our regular grocery shopping duties, we spent our spare moments at parks and playgrounds over the weekend. Because this is what our world looked like 4 days before.  We had snowstorms before, during, and after Mother’s Day.  You might say we had a rather white Mother’s Day. It’s mostly melted […]