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Westward

Sorry I’ve been out of touch…Instagram followers know why.

Photo by Thing One

We spent a week in Colorado teaching the kids that it is indeed possible to ski on a sheet of ice with slush on top, but you just might fall more.

Due to the Spring slope conditions, we made sure we got up early to be the first to hit the slopes….

 

…because by the afternoon, things were melting fast.

There was also a day for tubing!

We decided to spend Friday geocaching in Vail, but we didn’t ski there…just milled about among all the fancy folk. Breckenridge is more our kind of place, with little to no gold lamé and bedazzled ski suits. Aspen and Vail can have all that and I won’t mind, I promise.

No groovy 70’s conversation pit this time, instead we went with log cabin rustic.

Photo by Thing Two

One the way back to the airport, we stopped at Red Rocks….

So that we could feel completely worthless watching all the superfit locals running up and down the amphitheater when we were gasping for air just to get up to the stage. Ah, altitude.

We also passed one of my favorite I-70 sightings, the “Sleeper House”.  I’ve always wanted to go inside.

Those are terrible blurry photos taken while driving, but there’s more info on this little gem here.

 

Photo by Patrick Young

I may be spotty for awhile longer as I have family in town for a week, and Thing Two’s birthday slumber party with 9 (gasp) boys. Mayhem will be the norm around here for a bit.

Have a great weekend!

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Things I Did While NOT At The Flea

I failed you this month…I didn’t make it to the flea market, thus no round up for you. I had school commitments on Friday, and Saturday and Sunday just flew by before I knew it. Melissa has a nice round up, so if you want to peek at the flea through her eyes..check it out here.

So why was I dragging my ass and not taking care of your vicarious shopping needs? It’s Spring people, and that means I get overwhelmed with the one million things that need doing outside this place of ours.

I finished painting inside the treehouse this week, but these are some of the only snaps I have. I planned to take some proper ones yesterday, but the place got trashed with mud over the weekend, and no one wants to see that yuck. Here’s the only picture I took via Instagram after moving some of the stuff back in. Sadly, I think ALL these pics were taken with my phone.

We have turned one wall into the chalkboard panels previously requested.

The Things and I worked at the local state park Saturday morning removing exotic, non-native plants from the forest floor so that there is less wild honeysuckle and more of this.

Then, there was pressure washing to be done, or should I say started. I still have the back decks to do, and that will take ages to finish.

Even though it can be tedious work, I have to admit that pressure washing all that gunk away is a satisfying job. Now I’ll need to go back with some deck stain to touch up some spots once it’s dried out.

I replanted my rootbound and pitiful looking junipers. I found these white planters at Target and am loving how light and easy to move they are…win!

I also started to topdress the pine straw patio, but only after retrenching the sump pump drainage creek. This time we laid plastic down so that we don’t have to retrench it every year. I’m headed to the stoneyard this morning to get more river rock to fill in the deeper creek. It had started flowing all over this end of the yard creating a swampy mudpit, but now we are nicely channeled. You won’t see the plastic when we are done adding more stone.

We also plan to build a proper bridge since the hose access is off to the right, so stepping over the creek is frequently required.

We put together our new Ikea Äpplarö table, and, of course, we have had 2 meals there already.

Sunday was a spectacular day..I snapped the dogwood in bloom before it’s gone.

So, while I missed the flea, we got a lot done, but there’s lots left to do…onward!

 

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