I was sitting on the sofa after dinner one night earlier this week, watching an episode of Modern Family, when my husband came in holding a stack of mail on top of a slightly cumbersome package. “What’s this?” I asked as he handed the box to me. “I haven’t ordered anything recently.” “It’s from Chris […]
One unexpected bonus to the pandemic forcing us all to hunker down and do everything online from home for more than a year was that I had the chance to attend my old poetry workshop via Zoom. Before we moved from Pennsylvania back to Colorado seven years ago, I used to participate in an annual […]
Always remember the beauty of the garden, for there is peace. Unknown I spent Saturday morning puttering around in my garden. It’s deeply satisfying to be able to do something like that. We’re as busy as ever these days, so I hadn’t had much of a chance to get out there all week, and the […]
We’re trying to squeeze in as many trips with the girls as we can before they’re really too grown up to vacation with us. Traveling during the pandemic has been… interesting. We’ve been camping/RV-ing for quite a few years now, and this year, it seems like EVERYONE is getting in on the fun. Campgrounds are […]
Me: Did you see this headline about the fire tornado in California? Husband: Fire tornado??? Me: Yes. Apparently, conditions were unusually perfect for the formation of a firenado, also known as a pyrocumulonimbus cloud. It formed near the Loyalton fire. Can you imagine? Husband: Jesus…. Who had firenado on their 2020 Bingo card? Me: I […]
Husband: Why is he constantly following you around crying like that? Me: He’s just waiting for me to fill his dish with something he can disdainfully refuse to eat.
Even in quarantine, we’ve been busy. It’s just a different kind of busy, is all. Before this all started, I spent hours in my car, driving all over the city as I ferried my youngest from her classes at the community college, to her enrichment program, to any one of a half dozen orchestra rehearsals […]
It’s snowing again. We had a warm week last week where things became misleadingly mild and the grass even greened up a bit, but we know better up here at the top of the little divide I live on than to trust any of that bullshit in early April. And sure enough, today is day […]
We have a large magnetic whiteboard hanging in our dining room, which used to be the school room when the girls were younger, but now is half my husband’s home office and half what used to be my standing desk area and now is just a place where junk accumulates. (Note to self: it’s time […]
We had a little snow on Thursday evening, so yesterday morning I woke to this: April snow isn’t all that unusual up here at 7,400 feet. Thursday morning, before the snow came, I took Bubbles down to the vet for a follow-up appointment. I’m not allowed in the building still because we’re nowhere near the […]