Poco Mountain Girl

Well, the snow is here–but so are the doughnuts.

We found this cute little donut maker half-price at Target this weekend.  It was just in time to warm up the kitchen…and procure some very big smiles.

Cash had his own plans for those doughnuts, but he ended up with a spoonful of mashed banana instead, poor kid.  Actually, he was very happy with the banana.  He has just begun feeding himself, and it’s really something to see those little fists joyfully squish and cram banana into every fiber of hair, face, clothes, chair, and floor.

And yup, that’s a For Sale sign at the top of our lot.  We’re renting this house, and the owners have put it on the market.  Although we had long term plans to buy some land and build, we’ve since decided it might be a better idea to buy a “used” house instead.  It’s a buyer’s market right now, but it’s not at all a builder’s market.

On top of that, Boulder County (where we wanted to build) has some hefty building regulations, including a mandatory indoor sprinkler system which would add about $20,000 to the already overpriced cost of building a house.  And really, how much would an indoor sprinkler actually help against a forest fire?

Not much, in case you’re wondering.

So by the time we need to move on, we will hopefully have found a sweet house on a few acres. We want a garden and chickens, and I would really like a little goat or two.  And of course a bit of space for the kids to run and play in the grass.  Ah, summer.  There I go dreaming again.

Until then, we’ll shovel snow and keep cozy here–and I’ll work on making a doughnut recipe that may–or may not–actually be healthy.

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