Happy Halloween to all and to all a good night of candy-eating!
Last Wednesday Old Man Winter showed up with 6-8 inches of snow (more in the foothills and high country!). Since temps stayed pretty reasonable and nothing got icy … and it didn’t ruin any fun or stay around too long I am OK with it. Plus it was really really pretty!! Especially the next day [...]
It has been a BEAUTIFUL fall around here. The above photo is from our “long” run (6.2 mi) on Sunday. The view alone was inspiring. My sub hour finish was icing on the cake… but I digress.
Apparently fall is making us a bit crazy. In the past week we have made: buttermilk pancakes broccoli mac ‘n’ cheese lentil soup Tuscan bread soup crockpot refried beans (we soaked the beans overnight and I would use 4 cups water next time, not 6) 6 or 7 batches of apple chips 2 loaves of [...]
This “recipe” is so simple I hesitate to even post it, but these are my kids new favorite snack and they are healthy, cheap and contain only one ingredient, so I thought I should share. Ingredients 4-5 medium apples apples, thinly sliced Directions I will give two methods for doing this. We have a dehydrator [...]
We are seriously terrible at gardening. We have good intentions (or we start with them anyhow). This year we even did our own starts … like from SEED! We may have started a bit late, but we did get them grown and plunked in the ground. We even made sure they had adequate, regular watering. [...]
We had a very nice, very FALL sort of weekend. Pumpkin patch and corn maze? Check. Visit to the Halloween super store? Check. Making of fall foods including pumpkin bread and apple chips? Check. A Halloween-themed birthday party? Check. Eating way too many pumpkin-spice almonds? Check. It was busy (isn’t it always?). But very good. [...]
My arms are kind of sore. Today my coach, Robyn, insisted I walk around the gym (approx 300 m) with a 30 lb barbell extended over my head. It kind of sucked. But I didn’t put it down the whole time. This was, of course, after I’d already walked around the building (300 m, in [...]
Did I mention how much I love Pinterest? Because I totally do. Of course it’s a timesuck, but I can overlook that in favor of its prettiness. Am I right? Anyhow, before we left for NYC and since we got back, we’ve been working on this craft that I had pinned to my “Crafts for [...]
My name is Jess. I'm a 30ish wife and working mommy. I love spending time with my family and friends, crafting up weird and beautiful things, cooking delicious food and running lots of miles to work it off. I love chocolate, wine, Photoshop, my Nikon and sleeping in. I do freelance design work for fun and marginal profit at JKN Designs. This is my blog. Read more »
