Naturally, I am keeping mental lists of restaurants to take Dan to, restaurants my friends will love, restaurants my mom will love, restaurants my in-laws will love… But yesterday I had an interesting dilemma: a lunch hour to myself with all of downtown Fort Collins at my disposal. What would I love?! I ended up […]
Read MoreThe Lyric Cinema
The Lyric is open! I’ve been following the story of the Lyric Cinema since before we bought our house. The Lyric is an independent movie theater in Fort Collins and they have been developing a brand new space — which opened last Friday (and then closed last Friday, and then reopened on Saturday. That’s life). […]
Read MoreFoothills UU
“Oh, you’re from Cincinnati? Whereabouts?” “Northside, but I grew up in Eastgate.” “My wife is from Mount Washington [seriously 10 minutes from Eastgate]. We were there in September.” This has already happened to me a few times in the two weeks Dan and I have been in Colorado; this specific exchange took place at Foothills […]
Read MoreLaramie, Wyoming
Saturday marked 2 weeks in Fort Collins; we celebrated with a day trip to Laramie, Wyoming, an hour from home. Honestly, “day trip” is generous; I doubt we were in Laramie for an hour. The drive was the whole point; we spent 2-3 hours driving across beautiful Colorado and Wyoming as a snowstorm began to […]
Read MoreSurprise date: Mars and toffee
I love to host “surprise dates,” nights in which Dan has no idea where we’re going. Of the two of us, Dan is the one who routinely has his sh*t together, so it’s refreshing for both of us to flip the script once in a while. We started with tacos and breakfast burritos at a […]
Read MoreHouse tour: the living room
Welcome to a space that doesn’t photograph very well: the living room! The living room is an extension of the open concept kitchen. This is one of the rooms that sorely needs artwork on the walls to look presentable, but in the name of GSD, here’s a peek at least. Through the window is a […]
Read MoreMuse, Music
Last week, when I was in unpacking hell, my friend Toni reached out to see if I wanted to grab coffee soon. Though I’ve known Toni for… oh, 8, 9 years?… I think we’ve met in person twice before. She lived outside of Chicago until moving to Loveland, Colorado about a year ago, so we […]
Read MoreFiguring out Halloween
Our Halloween turned into an example of things being as good as you make them. During the day I was feeling stir crazy, so I took a walk down the same Poudre River Trail that Dan biked on Sunday. I got as far as Salyer Park, pictured here. It’s about 1.3 miles from home, so […]
Read MoreHouse tour: the kitchen
Voilà, our kitchen! I had just finished hand-washing our lunch dishes — currently, the dishwasher is strictly decorative, as somehow it was installed without being hooked up to either power or water — and decided the kitchen looked as photo-ready as it was going to get. Without a doubt, the kitchen is the most stunning […]
Read MoreSolarCity
Our neighborhood, Revive, caught Dan’s eye because of its focus on renewable energy and conservation. On Saturday we met our consultant from SolarCity (recently acquired by Tesla) — Justin walked us through the monitoring for our solar panels, which should produce enough electricity that the overage on our power bill also pays our water bill […]
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