i have had a philosophy about back seats of cars and seat belts. i figured if your in the back and get hit your not going out the front window....but i never thought about being upside down in the car.
gio, mj and i headed up to copper yesterday to ride. copper has gotten some ungodly amount of snow in the past two week - something around nine feet? - and we were itching to ride some powder.
the morning started off freezing in denver. my car windows were incases in ice. my favorite ice scrapper (yes favorite) was (and still is) missing so i had to use the crappy one that was left. my window washer fluide pump died on me and i bought a new one but had not replaced it due to the -14deg wheather we've been having.... so ice windows, the cold and all we made it up to morrison parking lot by seven forty am (ten minutes late or so) mj was waiting placidly for us to show.
we headed up to the mountain. we stopped in idaho spings at the sandwich shop - mark was hungery, gio and i were thirsty - the boys got coffee and i got a bottle of juice.
off we went. when we passed frisco last exit we got in to the canyon area. that's when it happened.
mj was driving normaly for the weather conditions.
the back end of the truck (pathfinder) just started to swing out.
then the front started heading towards the median.
mj gently tried to correct this and the truck crossed over to the right lane and then over the hill and the truck flipped.
all of this happened quickly and slowly at the same time.
when the truck rolled gio and mj were in the front seats and i was in the back - with out my seat belt on.
the truck rolled and for a moment i was on all fours on the ceiling and then just a moment later back in the seat on the other side of the truck.
we all remember noise. gio heard the only glass to break - the passenger side mirror. i heard all the cd jewel cases raining down around me, mj heard the top of the trucks luggage rack parts snapping.
then stillness.
the oddest things popped into my head. gio's face was wet and all i could think is that he threw up - but it was mj's coffee split all over the two of them. and then i wanted my juice that i had just purchased; i was quite conserned about it for some unkown reason to me. and then there was the "i wonder what that looked like?" thoughts....
no one saw this happen. no one was next to us on the road. there was a road below us and a man stopped to see if we were ok - we didn't look like a roll over we just looked as if we went off the road. we told him we were fine and decieded to try to drive down to the bottow and drive out.
i got my snow boarding boots on as well as gloves. this took a few minutes. gio and i got out and started pushing.
and then sliently a red suv was flying in the air it's nose backwards from the direction that it was heading. but it was no longer driving it was bouncing down the hill near us! when it stopped gio started towards the driver "baby are you ok?" the female driver was a little out of it as well because she became scared that there was a baby involved some how.
i called to gio to come back and push because my newest concern was that another vehicle was going to come bouncing over the side of the road at us again.
firefighter, ambulances, cops and tow trucks, shovles and -14 deg weather came and went.
no one was hurt. the truck was hardly hurt, mj drove us back to morrison. cocktails at home were in order.
oh, as for the red suv - totaled. the front windshield, front windows and back window were all smashed out. the roof of the truck all smashed in.
someone was looking out for us.
thank you mj for getting us threw that safely.
ps none of us had a camera on us
Friday, December 09, 2005
Monday, November 14, 2005
Thursday, November 03, 2005
a slice of halloween pie
for two weeks in small spurts gio, sam, nils, nick and i made grave stones, ax carring dumby and a few pumpkins. all for giving out candy and scarring the pants off of children.
here's a peek at it.
he looks much scarier in the strobe light with fog!
at one point in the night i looked out in to the neighborhood and saw tons of children swamping the street! i haven't seen that since the good ol' days in virginia!
here's a peek at it.
he looks much scarier in the strobe light with fog!
at one point in the night i looked out in to the neighborhood and saw tons of children swamping the street! i haven't seen that since the good ol' days in virginia!
Thursday, October 27, 2005
things left behind....sometimes hard to remember
every loaf of bread that we buy ticks me off.
bread that isn't cheepy white has been inching it's way up in price - it's almost four dollars for a loaf of nice sliced bread.
and bagueettes are cheeper but the don't last a day before turning stale (which i secretly like for tea in the morning).
nils, who is living in the cottage (dads house) right now has been experimenting with different flours and yeast - wild and kefir mostly - and he has been turning out some damn fine breads. so i bought some new bread flour and i have been making bread for gio and i for the past few weeks.
i started thinking about when my mom would bake bread. it was alway hot and perfect! she made a honey white. i can even remember her showing me how to proof yeast with the honey, and when you did it right how the yeast puffed up in soft pellows above the water/honey. but i could not for the life of me remember the recipe. but there was one place i thought that might have it written down the montissori school of mc leans cook book. i knew that all three of my aunts favorite recipes are in there. and there it was page thirty-six "mother's white bread" with note "this is the bead my mother baked almost daily during the war". so i have chosen grandma parasines bread as of the almost daily baking for us.
i am wanting to experiment with other breads... infact my father and mother in law - seu valomr e ma helena - gave me a brilliant bread cook book in portugese. i can understand half of it - most of the ingredients repeat over and over i just need to learn a little more kitchen portuguese and i'll be right there.
bread that isn't cheepy white has been inching it's way up in price - it's almost four dollars for a loaf of nice sliced bread.
and bagueettes are cheeper but the don't last a day before turning stale (which i secretly like for tea in the morning).
nils, who is living in the cottage (dads house) right now has been experimenting with different flours and yeast - wild and kefir mostly - and he has been turning out some damn fine breads. so i bought some new bread flour and i have been making bread for gio and i for the past few weeks.
i started thinking about when my mom would bake bread. it was alway hot and perfect! she made a honey white. i can even remember her showing me how to proof yeast with the honey, and when you did it right how the yeast puffed up in soft pellows above the water/honey. but i could not for the life of me remember the recipe. but there was one place i thought that might have it written down the montissori school of mc leans cook book. i knew that all three of my aunts favorite recipes are in there. and there it was page thirty-six "mother's white bread" with note "this is the bead my mother baked almost daily during the war". so i have chosen grandma parasines bread as of the almost daily baking for us.
i am wanting to experiment with other breads... infact my father and mother in law - seu valomr e ma helena - gave me a brilliant bread cook book in portugese. i can understand half of it - most of the ingredients repeat over and over i just need to learn a little more kitchen portuguese and i'll be right there.
Wednesday, October 05, 2005
then and now
when gio and i first saw our houses i could see what could be...........
we had a "death march" to finish all the projects we wanted to get done by june - family coming - then the wedding plans - we accomplished alot......with some great help from our great friends!
we had a "death march" to finish all the projects we wanted to get done by june - family coming - then the wedding plans - we accomplished alot......with some great help from our great friends!
Tuesday, September 20, 2005
christmas in september
how's the pressure canning going?
GREAT!!! thank you for asking!
gio bought me a pressure canner last christmas and i finally got the nerve up to use it last night.....
sam and i purchased two bushels of roasted green chilles on sundeay.
we proceeded to peel one and a half bushels by hand - and i do mean by naked hand!
i've been peeling chilies for several years now and i have never had the burning of the hands as i did from the sheer amount of chilies that i peeled with out hand protection. burning as if only my hands had been sent to hell!!!!
this pain lasted until the next morning........we wore gloves last night to finish the last half a bushel
san and shannon came over last night. shannon brougt the gloves - she works at cu med center examining hepatitis c these were new gloves!
so we sat on the porch peeling the remaining chilies and some that shannon brought from utah from her grandparents garden and waited for the pressure canner to do its magic.
we did a hot pack of the green chili and got the pressure canner all set up and turned up the heat. i had done all my reading about it that morning. the booklet had said that it was normal to have some steam leakage at the begining but the canner would just not get up to pressure.
sam and shannon decieded to fiddle around with some of the external parts (the overpressure plug) and used a little too much force and it blew!!!!! only the steam.
so here's what we learned.
1. double check all plugs and "o" ring
2.pressure should come up once the pressure regulator is placed on with in three to five minutes
3. do not push in the overpressure plug!
i canned eighteen jars of green chili last night and i am in the process of canning the remaing chili and then i am going for the zucchini. i thought it would be nice to can the zucchinis with diffferent herbs per quart?????? we'll see this winter how it turns out.
GREAT!!! thank you for asking!
gio bought me a pressure canner last christmas and i finally got the nerve up to use it last night.....
sam and i purchased two bushels of roasted green chilles on sundeay.
we proceeded to peel one and a half bushels by hand - and i do mean by naked hand!
i've been peeling chilies for several years now and i have never had the burning of the hands as i did from the sheer amount of chilies that i peeled with out hand protection. burning as if only my hands had been sent to hell!!!!
this pain lasted until the next morning........we wore gloves last night to finish the last half a bushel
san and shannon came over last night. shannon brougt the gloves - she works at cu med center examining hepatitis c these were new gloves!
so we sat on the porch peeling the remaining chilies and some that shannon brought from utah from her grandparents garden and waited for the pressure canner to do its magic.
we did a hot pack of the green chili and got the pressure canner all set up and turned up the heat. i had done all my reading about it that morning. the booklet had said that it was normal to have some steam leakage at the begining but the canner would just not get up to pressure.
sam and shannon decieded to fiddle around with some of the external parts (the overpressure plug) and used a little too much force and it blew!!!!! only the steam.
so here's what we learned.
1. double check all plugs and "o" ring
2.pressure should come up once the pressure regulator is placed on with in three to five minutes
3. do not push in the overpressure plug!
i canned eighteen jars of green chili last night and i am in the process of canning the remaing chili and then i am going for the zucchini. i thought it would be nice to can the zucchinis with diffferent herbs per quart?????? we'll see this winter how it turns out.
Friday, September 16, 2005
good food good friends good evening
last night gio and i had a few friends over for dinner - casey frank, steve best and rebecca vaughn. super cool!
this is probably going to be our last dinner party until we remodle my house....
or i make a different dinner table for the dinning room....
last night we all were pondering how we could keep the out door dinning in the cold weather.
there of couse is the wear warm clothes but this answer is only for the person dinning not the dinner.
our biggest problem we found earlier this year was the food got so cold so fast!
we also dicussed hanging a canvas drape around the dinner table.....??? is this then dinning inside not out?
or we can have a wood burning cast iron stove out around us or a fire pit table? who knows, i just hope we get invited over to other large warmer house this winter for dinners!hint
but as for last nights dinner party i think it went smashingly. every guest brought a bottle of wine. casey frank brought over pomegranate wine super delicious! i have nerver had it before last night.
i also made these little italian cookies named farfalle (butterfly in italian) but i don't really know the recipe.
gio took me to a restaurant over on tennyson and 44th named parisi, they have the best pizza in denver... they have a wood burning oven...tastes like italy!! and parisis have astonishing desserts as well.
gio, mira, zac and i tried one dessert - farfalle cookies, and i fell in love with these little beauties but i have search the internet looking for a recipe or a reference to the cookie but i have found nothing........
so i went on fact finding mission to parisi to see if i could get any info on the cookie dough.
the guy at the counter said he did not know exactly what the dough was made out of but he did know that it has cream chees in the dough.
ha ahahaha . so i have come up with my verison of the dough (i have only made it once) and i think i did a good job and the cookies taste great but their not as good as parisi...much to my chagrin.
has anyone else ever had these? they have jam in the middle....
here's to the stupendous summer dinner we've had and to more to come next spring!
this is probably going to be our last dinner party until we remodle my house....
or i make a different dinner table for the dinning room....
last night we all were pondering how we could keep the out door dinning in the cold weather.
there of couse is the wear warm clothes but this answer is only for the person dinning not the dinner.
our biggest problem we found earlier this year was the food got so cold so fast!
we also dicussed hanging a canvas drape around the dinner table.....??? is this then dinning inside not out?
or we can have a wood burning cast iron stove out around us or a fire pit table? who knows, i just hope we get invited over to other large warmer house this winter for dinners!hint
but as for last nights dinner party i think it went smashingly. every guest brought a bottle of wine. casey frank brought over pomegranate wine super delicious! i have nerver had it before last night.
i also made these little italian cookies named farfalle (butterfly in italian) but i don't really know the recipe.
gio took me to a restaurant over on tennyson and 44th named parisi, they have the best pizza in denver... they have a wood burning oven...tastes like italy!! and parisis have astonishing desserts as well.
gio, mira, zac and i tried one dessert - farfalle cookies, and i fell in love with these little beauties but i have search the internet looking for a recipe or a reference to the cookie but i have found nothing........
so i went on fact finding mission to parisi to see if i could get any info on the cookie dough.
the guy at the counter said he did not know exactly what the dough was made out of but he did know that it has cream chees in the dough.
ha ahahaha . so i have come up with my verison of the dough (i have only made it once) and i think i did a good job and the cookies taste great but their not as good as parisi...much to my chagrin.
has anyone else ever had these? they have jam in the middle....
here's to the stupendous summer dinner we've had and to more to come next spring!
Tuesday, September 13, 2005
jenny vs. aphids
the garden has been very good to us this year.
even part of the leftover garden has been super; the priests left us mint (which has been made into tea), oregano, sage (which flowered in spring) and forever bearing spinach chard (fed us from march until june and is back again)
i have had more chilies this year than ever. i used to try and grow bell peppers out here but never got many. this year i switched to cubanelle peppers for the sweet and pablanos and habaneros for the hotties. i have made some great salas from these peppers.
we also have acorn squash and zucchini that keeps rolling in. i have given away atleast fifteen pounds of zucchini this summer. i 've grown cabbage and brussell sprouts for the first time this year, they've been good - cabbage looks great in the flower garden! as well as broccoli once it's gone to flower.
but then the unwanted guests moved themselves in... the aphids! those little sap suckers moved in on the tomatoes and the bassicas with full force!
gio and i started the all out annihilation of the aphids. the battle raged on for five days. we did suffer some casualties, three tomatoes plants had to be removed. the three plants that i cut down were just acting as aphid baby makers! the poor plants had no new growth and no fruit or flowers - they were dying.
we kept up on the spraying soapy water on all the plants and after the removal of the baby making three the aphids started to die off in large number!!! and this next part i am a little confused about....... the large black ants moved in all over that tomatoes and seemed to be eating all of the aphids........eating? i am not sure but after that day no more aphids!!!!
so next year i need to do things differently in the garden, more companion planting and not having too many of the same plant near each other...... and more food stuffs......asparagus!!! and more beans....
aphids. i have learned more about them this year than i've wanted. nils told me that aphids are good for you skin....just crush 'en in!
even part of the leftover garden has been super; the priests left us mint (which has been made into tea), oregano, sage (which flowered in spring) and forever bearing spinach chard (fed us from march until june and is back again)
i have had more chilies this year than ever. i used to try and grow bell peppers out here but never got many. this year i switched to cubanelle peppers for the sweet and pablanos and habaneros for the hotties. i have made some great salas from these peppers.
we also have acorn squash and zucchini that keeps rolling in. i have given away atleast fifteen pounds of zucchini this summer. i 've grown cabbage and brussell sprouts for the first time this year, they've been good - cabbage looks great in the flower garden! as well as broccoli once it's gone to flower.
but then the unwanted guests moved themselves in... the aphids! those little sap suckers moved in on the tomatoes and the bassicas with full force!
gio and i started the all out annihilation of the aphids. the battle raged on for five days. we did suffer some casualties, three tomatoes plants had to be removed. the three plants that i cut down were just acting as aphid baby makers! the poor plants had no new growth and no fruit or flowers - they were dying.
we kept up on the spraying soapy water on all the plants and after the removal of the baby making three the aphids started to die off in large number!!! and this next part i am a little confused about....... the large black ants moved in all over that tomatoes and seemed to be eating all of the aphids........eating? i am not sure but after that day no more aphids!!!!
so next year i need to do things differently in the garden, more companion planting and not having too many of the same plant near each other...... and more food stuffs......asparagus!!! and more beans....
aphids. i have learned more about them this year than i've wanted. nils told me that aphids are good for you skin....just crush 'en in!
Tuesday, August 23, 2005
some time has past but the feelings remain the same
gio's super great family arrived in june to join us for our wedding and then travel around a bit in colorado...... we took them to garden of the gods and then over to manitou for a sip of spring water.......
for all of you that have not had the pleasure please let me introduce you to my wonderful mother in law marie helena and my super sweet sister in law carmela
this is my incredible husband and father in law gio and mr.valmour
sam has become part of the family!
a trip in to manitou is never complete without pinball
as i mentioned in the previous entry sam, mira and i took a trip to austin tx for amber vazquez wedding to rob bode
but first we took a peek through rowell new mexico
we went to a few art museums while in austin, the ground at laguna gloria were breath taking
we cleaned up nicely
mr.sam carstens thank you partner
miss mira
amber and her fathers grand enterance
random piece of art that i enjoyed at laguna gloria
for all of you that have not had the pleasure please let me introduce you to my wonderful mother in law marie helena and my super sweet sister in law carmela
this is my incredible husband and father in law gio and mr.valmour
sam has become part of the family!
a trip in to manitou is never complete without pinball
as i mentioned in the previous entry sam, mira and i took a trip to austin tx for amber vazquez wedding to rob bode
but first we took a peek through rowell new mexico
we went to a few art museums while in austin, the ground at laguna gloria were breath taking
we cleaned up nicely
mr.sam carstens thank you partner
miss mira
amber and her fathers grand enterance
random piece of art that i enjoyed at laguna gloria
Friday, July 29, 2005
the time and life of.....
time has flown!
i just popped my head back up to realize that it's july and not only july but august will be here in just a few days!
our wedding was magical!!!
i still haven't gotten my photos developed yet
the last few months have been jam packed with great friends and family.
and soon i will post some photos.... i have had an interesting battle with my computer recentlty- my ipod was accidently dropped and finally went to computer hell/heaven so i had to go thru computer hell but now i am back.....
august is almost over and i have been a busy bee this month.
i got back a week ago today from austin texas where my good friend/old room mate (amber vazquez) got married to a man (rob bode) that she has known since she was twelve (she met him at the mall in 7th grade!) they never dated untill just a few years ago, but they were great buddies for years! the wedding was super great, amber chose an old texas town/ranch to get married. the ranch had five buildings on the propety; church, saloon, school house, and two other buildings that i didn't enter. the day was as beautiful as the bride.
i drove down to austin with sam and my good friend that is visiting from cananda mira. the drive down was fun. we stopped in roswell nm, and carlsbad nm, and drove strait into austin the second day,
i think my favorite day out in austin was the day we went out to lake country to kirnsey springs.
ms krunsey's in her lawn chair collecting the three dollar enterance fee and she then sets you loose on her property.
her property has two water falls and several large spring pools.
the best description was from amber's friend bently; it's like walking into alice in wonderlands spring.
when you first walk in there are eight foot lond wind chimes blowing in the breeze, and then the path that takes you down to the spring is twisty and turny and puts you out facing the water fall with giant hanging plants and moss all dripping down the cliff.
i so wished that gio was there to swim with me there, i knew that he would be pushing the kids out of his way to play on the rope swing!
i will post photos soon, i get my wedding pics in on tuesday.
love to all who have faith that i will write again!
i just popped my head back up to realize that it's july and not only july but august will be here in just a few days!
our wedding was magical!!!
i still haven't gotten my photos developed yet
the last few months have been jam packed with great friends and family.
and soon i will post some photos.... i have had an interesting battle with my computer recentlty- my ipod was accidently dropped and finally went to computer hell/heaven so i had to go thru computer hell but now i am back.....
august is almost over and i have been a busy bee this month.
i got back a week ago today from austin texas where my good friend/old room mate (amber vazquez) got married to a man (rob bode) that she has known since she was twelve (she met him at the mall in 7th grade!) they never dated untill just a few years ago, but they were great buddies for years! the wedding was super great, amber chose an old texas town/ranch to get married. the ranch had five buildings on the propety; church, saloon, school house, and two other buildings that i didn't enter. the day was as beautiful as the bride.
i drove down to austin with sam and my good friend that is visiting from cananda mira. the drive down was fun. we stopped in roswell nm, and carlsbad nm, and drove strait into austin the second day,
i think my favorite day out in austin was the day we went out to lake country to kirnsey springs.
ms krunsey's in her lawn chair collecting the three dollar enterance fee and she then sets you loose on her property.
her property has two water falls and several large spring pools.
the best description was from amber's friend bently; it's like walking into alice in wonderlands spring.
when you first walk in there are eight foot lond wind chimes blowing in the breeze, and then the path that takes you down to the spring is twisty and turny and puts you out facing the water fall with giant hanging plants and moss all dripping down the cliff.
i so wished that gio was there to swim with me there, i knew that he would be pushing the kids out of his way to play on the rope swing!
i will post photos soon, i get my wedding pics in on tuesday.
love to all who have faith that i will write again!
Monday, May 30, 2005
do i have a minute?
not really ....
the toninelos will be here sunday!
it's funny that working at the coffee shop alot of known stragers know that gio's parents and sister are coming next sunday.
yesterday at work a pair of favorites thought that the toninelo's were arriving yesterday morning, everyones excited!
the weather is still not behaving for us..... the fence is almost finished, dad has finished making the gates.
dad and i took out anual father/daughter home depot trip this evening to get the second set of hinges for the gate.....soon it wiil all be over.
this morning dad, gio and i went over to our friend brendan's rental house to pick up the fridge and stove that he gave us for gio's house.
brendan warned me and he even felt bad that the appliances were dirty - really dirty!
this was a rental house with boys living in it! yuck doesn't say enough!!!
but this project went smoothly. we spent the better part of the afternoon cleaning them in the court yard before hauling them into gio's new kitchen!!!
life will be slower soon and hopefully more fun..........
not to say that i am not having fun right now .......i can wistle while i work .......but at this point every thing seem like one more stupid thing i have to do to complete the main projects......
i am so looking forwards to gio's family being here and all my friends gathering here for the wedding. .... it's the cherry on the cake
the toninelos will be here sunday!
it's funny that working at the coffee shop alot of known stragers know that gio's parents and sister are coming next sunday.
yesterday at work a pair of favorites thought that the toninelo's were arriving yesterday morning, everyones excited!
the weather is still not behaving for us..... the fence is almost finished, dad has finished making the gates.
dad and i took out anual father/daughter home depot trip this evening to get the second set of hinges for the gate.....soon it wiil all be over.
this morning dad, gio and i went over to our friend brendan's rental house to pick up the fridge and stove that he gave us for gio's house.
brendan warned me and he even felt bad that the appliances were dirty - really dirty!
this was a rental house with boys living in it! yuck doesn't say enough!!!
but this project went smoothly. we spent the better part of the afternoon cleaning them in the court yard before hauling them into gio's new kitchen!!!
life will be slower soon and hopefully more fun..........
not to say that i am not having fun right now .......i can wistle while i work .......but at this point every thing seem like one more stupid thing i have to do to complete the main projects......
i am so looking forwards to gio's family being here and all my friends gathering here for the wedding. .... it's the cherry on the cake
Friday, May 20, 2005
just can't sleep
two weeks to go.
two big projects left, both are started.
the sun shade trellis boards are up and what a difference it makes. the temperature in denver these days are mid to high 80's with no clouds and today is supposed to hit the 90's... my straw hat is still packed away some where in the garage?????????
dawn came and i got up. i have been working extra shifts this week for the morning girl heather and i've been awake before dawn the past few days and sleeping in isn't happening.
i have to pick my friend nick up at eight am to bring him back over here to help us today. oh, i feel so pulled! i want to go over and pick up a truck load of compost soil for the garden, i keep thinking that i don't have the time (and the truck can be scary) to get it but the veggie plants will love it!
i got several types of heirloom tomato plants this year to taste the difference. several of them are russian and supposedly more hardy towards frost. i got my broccoli, brussel sprouts, hot and sweet peppers, cucumbers, and alot of herbs that i are new to me. i went herb shopping with harlan who has just finished a year at an organic farm that specialized in salad greens as well as salad herbs.
hopefully we can get the fence done in the next todays and then the trellis is up to my dad basiclly. and i have two more small stone walls to build.....good luck! and then there's the wedding.
the invites that rebecca von did for us are super beautiful and special!
my dress has one last fitting today.
we are going to buy one or two cakes and i am going to make a trifle or maybe two trifles?
i can't wait for gio's family to get here! i feel like christmas is coming (in my stomach)and the anticipation is hard!
i have had some sad news from far away friends that they will not be able to make it........but i understand......except for maureen hutchinson! SHE HAS TO COME!!!!.
i just want a super loving happy families combinding day!
anyway, i think i am going to go make lunch for the troops that are headed here today, green chili?
two big projects left, both are started.
the sun shade trellis boards are up and what a difference it makes. the temperature in denver these days are mid to high 80's with no clouds and today is supposed to hit the 90's... my straw hat is still packed away some where in the garage?????????
dawn came and i got up. i have been working extra shifts this week for the morning girl heather and i've been awake before dawn the past few days and sleeping in isn't happening.
i have to pick my friend nick up at eight am to bring him back over here to help us today. oh, i feel so pulled! i want to go over and pick up a truck load of compost soil for the garden, i keep thinking that i don't have the time (and the truck can be scary) to get it but the veggie plants will love it!
i got several types of heirloom tomato plants this year to taste the difference. several of them are russian and supposedly more hardy towards frost. i got my broccoli, brussel sprouts, hot and sweet peppers, cucumbers, and alot of herbs that i are new to me. i went herb shopping with harlan who has just finished a year at an organic farm that specialized in salad greens as well as salad herbs.
hopefully we can get the fence done in the next todays and then the trellis is up to my dad basiclly. and i have two more small stone walls to build.....good luck! and then there's the wedding.
the invites that rebecca von did for us are super beautiful and special!
my dress has one last fitting today.
we are going to buy one or two cakes and i am going to make a trifle or maybe two trifles?
i can't wait for gio's family to get here! i feel like christmas is coming (in my stomach)and the anticipation is hard!
i have had some sad news from far away friends that they will not be able to make it........but i understand......except for maureen hutchinson! SHE HAS TO COME!!!!.
i just want a super loving happy families combinding day!
anyway, i think i am going to go make lunch for the troops that are headed here today, green chili?
Friday, April 29, 2005
snow??????
denver style.
snow in april.
cold cold cold!
all of my plans to work out side have been stomped on by mother nature.
the cold rain started on tuesday,
buy wednesday it was slushy rain,
thurday snow appeared,
today is friday and it's still snowing lightly.
this time of year all of the gardeners start asking the age old question -
have you planted yet?
i would be planting some cold weather crops if i was ready in the yard already....
but the snow has stopped my outdoor activities for now.
this makes me more than ever want to put in a sprouting/growing area so i can start seeds in feburary and have my own plants out on mothers day.
the garage is going to be the cheese storage and growning room along with all the other activies i want to do out there.
because of the snow and cold i went thrifting with dad as our afternoon activity.
the thrift stores here are getting pricey!
half of the good thirft stores are closing and moving out of denver into aurora,
or the land is being bought by flipping wal-mart to put up yet another one of the super mega crap complexes!
but i did hit fifty percent off day at the arc on colfax and sheridan.
we went down to the arc on alameda and fed.
this arc at one time i loved to go to but as of now i just get icky vibes from the place (i am waiting for the building to tell me to get out).
so dad and i are having a fine time, dad found me a lovely apple peeler/corer for two dollars.... and then i ventured over to the kitchen electrical crap and i found a nice coffee grinder for three dollars! super!
i hate my grinder it's top never comes off easily anymore and this one is super nice!
then dad and i look around a little more and we start to go to the check out when a man approaches me
he said that he was going to buy the grinder but he'd put it down for a minute -
what?
and he put it down and i picked it up-
does the words tuff tittys mean anything?
is this not bad form?
if you aren't holding on to a desired item and you place on a shelf with similar items is this item then up for grabs and finder keepers looser weeper?
i gave the looser the grinder. i hate that arc!
home project update:
gio's house is almost complete.
bedroom floor done
office floor done
living room floor installed and urethaned twice
pond dug
pond liner installed
flagstone wall started - then the rain put a halt on that
here are a few pictures
gio and the rocks
this is where we bought the stone
this is us hiding from the hail storm that popped up
pond wall
snow in april.
cold cold cold!
all of my plans to work out side have been stomped on by mother nature.
the cold rain started on tuesday,
buy wednesday it was slushy rain,
thurday snow appeared,
today is friday and it's still snowing lightly.
this time of year all of the gardeners start asking the age old question -
have you planted yet?
i would be planting some cold weather crops if i was ready in the yard already....
but the snow has stopped my outdoor activities for now.
this makes me more than ever want to put in a sprouting/growing area so i can start seeds in feburary and have my own plants out on mothers day.
the garage is going to be the cheese storage and growning room along with all the other activies i want to do out there.
because of the snow and cold i went thrifting with dad as our afternoon activity.
the thrift stores here are getting pricey!
half of the good thirft stores are closing and moving out of denver into aurora,
or the land is being bought by flipping wal-mart to put up yet another one of the super mega crap complexes!
but i did hit fifty percent off day at the arc on colfax and sheridan.
we went down to the arc on alameda and fed.
this arc at one time i loved to go to but as of now i just get icky vibes from the place (i am waiting for the building to tell me to get out).
so dad and i are having a fine time, dad found me a lovely apple peeler/corer for two dollars.... and then i ventured over to the kitchen electrical crap and i found a nice coffee grinder for three dollars! super!
i hate my grinder it's top never comes off easily anymore and this one is super nice!
then dad and i look around a little more and we start to go to the check out when a man approaches me
he said that he was going to buy the grinder but he'd put it down for a minute -
what?
and he put it down and i picked it up-
does the words tuff tittys mean anything?
is this not bad form?
if you aren't holding on to a desired item and you place on a shelf with similar items is this item then up for grabs and finder keepers looser weeper?
i gave the looser the grinder. i hate that arc!
home project update:
gio's house is almost complete.
bedroom floor done
office floor done
living room floor installed and urethaned twice
pond dug
pond liner installed
flagstone wall started - then the rain put a halt on that
here are a few pictures
gio and the rocks
this is where we bought the stone
this is us hiding from the hail storm that popped up
pond wall
Sunday, April 24, 2005
the latest from the home front.....
sunday.
it's raining.
rain is great to get out here...
today was to be more time in the garden for me....
the raised planter beds i am planning to look like the planter i built over at 1717
this is a photo of the finished planter with beging growth...
gio's house.
almost ready to be checked off the list!!
three out of the four rooms of flooring in!
the living room floor that has to be installed is getting started tomarrow.
dad and gio installed the sink, sink cabinet, and hanging top cabinets on saturday!!!
those industrious men also put in the final pieces on the raised bed planter. and then i fed them well!
what's next you asked??
the pond.
the front fence and gate
the open roof between little house and my house
how much more time you ask until we complete this??? five to six weeks! plus plan the wedding... it's a sinch! not a problem ! i got everything under control!
help!!!
well, i did get sent some angles this week.
rebecca von (a great designer/artist) is going to do our invites! she is so creative!
and trish christianson has graciously given her time to help (make!! ) my dress she too is talented in many ways but espically with dress making!!!
it's raining.
rain is great to get out here...
today was to be more time in the garden for me....
the raised planter beds i am planning to look like the planter i built over at 1717
this is a photo of the finished planter with beging growth...
gio's house.
almost ready to be checked off the list!!
three out of the four rooms of flooring in!
the living room floor that has to be installed is getting started tomarrow.
dad and gio installed the sink, sink cabinet, and hanging top cabinets on saturday!!!
those industrious men also put in the final pieces on the raised bed planter. and then i fed them well!
what's next you asked??
the pond.
the front fence and gate
the open roof between little house and my house
how much more time you ask until we complete this??? five to six weeks! plus plan the wedding... it's a sinch! not a problem ! i got everything under control!
help!!!
well, i did get sent some angles this week.
rebecca von (a great designer/artist) is going to do our invites! she is so creative!
and trish christianson has graciously given her time to help (make!! ) my dress she too is talented in many ways but espically with dress making!!!
Thursday, April 14, 2005
da dum dee dum, da dum deee dmmmmm
see that face!
see how cute he is!!
i get to see that face every morning!!!!
that cute face asked me to marry him the other day!!!
and i said yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
can you see my smile???
i love him very much
xxoojennyl.
Thursday, March 31, 2005
what's going on here....
we have a comfirmation for the arrival of gio's parents: june 5th!!!
i really need to get back to studing!
the arrival of my father and the construction that is going on here has me out of my routine and i haven't cracked the books for two weeks!!!
gio did buy me a little dictionary to help me out....
like all good spings in denver in the past three days it has been 70deg and sunny, then it the temp dropped the next day to 40 deg and rainy, then the next morning it was 50 deg by ten am then stated snowing by two pm! last night it snowed most of the night and has left us cold and damp today.....the trees and flowers don't know what to do!!!
here's some proof of what we're trying to do out front when it's not snowing on us.....
i really need to get back to studing!
the arrival of my father and the construction that is going on here has me out of my routine and i haven't cracked the books for two weeks!!!
gio did buy me a little dictionary to help me out....
like all good spings in denver in the past three days it has been 70deg and sunny, then it the temp dropped the next day to 40 deg and rainy, then the next morning it was 50 deg by ten am then stated snowing by two pm! last night it snowed most of the night and has left us cold and damp today.....the trees and flowers don't know what to do!!!
here's some proof of what we're trying to do out front when it's not snowing on us.....
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