Art, culture, travel and adventure in Northern Colorado.
I won’t bore you with a post about the joy of leaving 2020 in the dust, though joy there is. I prefer to spend the holiday looking forward. Dan and I enjoyed two fun hikes in two days. On New Year’s Eve we headed to our nearby Lory State Park — we hadn’t been there […]
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Does the world need a few more pictures of Dan and my annual Christmas lasagna? Honestly no, probably not — but this tradition brings our little household so much joy, I’m sharing it anyway. The lasagna turned out beautifully. We always follow the same recipe, but over the years we’ve made enough tweaks that it […]
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I took a break from my very amateur birdwatching during the fall — the weather was too perfect for bike riding, and I rarely have time for both. However, now we have a fresh batch of snow on the ground and days with highs of ~30 degrees, so my binoculars have been seeing more action. […]
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Even though little looks the same this year, not every tradition needs to go be the wayside. This year I was so, so happy to find an opportunity to hand-build my own holiday wreath again, having had such a fun time doing so last December. Not only was this year’s wreath workshop as good as […]
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It feels so incredible to have a story to share! Dan and I decided to take a few days off and slip away to Salida, Colorado during my Thanksgiving break from grad school. It has been a long time since either of us has had a real break from responsibilities — even when we visited […]
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Dan and I had the fortune to be invited to my niece’s first birthday party. The “pancakes and pajamas” party gathered Fiona’s friends and family on Zoom. We got to watch Fiona be spoiled rotten by gifts, then toddle around her living room. She’s becoming quite the little walker. (Sometimes I can’t believe that my […]
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I have officially gotten more tattoos (two) than haircuts (one) since March. (Sidebar: If you’ve been to a tattoo parlor, you know the good ones were some of the most sanitized places you could go, even before the pandemic. Getting a tattoo is not a zero-risk situation, but with everyone in masks and no more […]
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Let me introduce you to my pandemic tattoo. When Dan and I spent a week in Grand Junction, Colorado, we fell head-over-heels in love with Gambel’s quails. Neither of us had seen them before — they mostly live in the Southwest, but Grand Junction has a very desert-like climate — and there was a family […]
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Lately there hasn’t been much to report. Dan and I keep busy with our respective jobs, and my MFA program is off to a great start. We both ride our bikes to stay active — Dan more than me, of course. Other than that it’s meals at home, movies at home, reading at home… the […]
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Happy birthday, Dan! Dan’s birthday is one week after mine, and we almost always travel as our gift to one another. This year is a little different of course, but we managed a socially-distant trip to Grand Lake, Colorado and spent his birthday paddling Monarch Lake in our packrafts. Perhaps you can tell from the […]
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