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March 2007
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 That is some hot scrabble. (from a game played earlier this week) |
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New house I've been busy of late...Gabriel moved down from Boulder and into the Fortress of Awesome for a few weeks of crowdedness and hectic living. We then found a new place and moved out on our own. I haven't started getting much mail at the new place yet, so if you feel like sending me a letter I will be sure to return with one of equal or higher quality. Sixteen-oh-eight Steele St. Denver, Colorado eight-oh-two-oh-six
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 Happy Holidays from Snowtown U.S.A. |
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Pudding in the pants  So my housemate Mitch volunteered our house for a hardcore show/pudding wrestling party this afternoon/evening. The hardcore band was really loud and we had four cop cars at our house within twenty minutes. That, however, did not stop a fairly intoxicated Mitch and his friend (for whose birthday the party was thrown) from jumping into the pudding and going at it. As a reminder...I live in Denver. It is winter. That white stuff you see in the background of the photo is snow. The temperature might have been 40`F at that point. But I suppose it would have been a shame to waste that 200lbs of pudding. Poor choices abound. |
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Winter is my favorite  Winter is my favorite because of early sunsets and silhouetted trees on the parkways. ( +3 ) |
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Why my job is the best.... did math based on vomiting and went to a colonoscopy center to use the scope on the fake intestines we built yesterday out of playdough, paper towel rolls and glitter.
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Halloween  So tired. So so tired. I was a bat. What kind you ask? Fruit bat, of course. |
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 (I wore my bat mask and bat wings for most of Friday as well) |
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 School-io. Teaching is a whirlwind of fantastic exhaustion. This is my class (Kindergarten/1st/2nd Grade) on our recent trip to the pumpkin patch. Each child got their own pumpkin and we spent the last two weeks studying them. We measured them, decorated them, invented personalities for them, wrote stories for them, examined them scientifically to see if they sink or float and compared and contrasted them with other fruits and vegetables. Now they know everything there is to know about pumpkins, and so do I. |
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Peach Festival  Millions of peaches Peaches for me Millions of peaches Peaches for free Zach and I went on a weekend getaway to take in some small town color and eat peaches in as many forms as possible. In the tiny town of Palisade (on the Western Slope of Colorado) they have a three-day peach festival (Palisade Peach Festival). We were only able to stay for a day, but it sure was worth it. We drove the four hours out there on Friday night, camped and awoke in the morning just in time to catch the Lion's Club Peach Pancake Breakfast.  The festival was visited by locals and tourists alike, with booths of crafts, merchandise and tons of peach-related deliciousness. As well, Palisade is located in an absolutely gorgeous natural setting.  There was a Peach Recipe contest and the general public was allowed tastes of each of the goodies at $.50 a pop. I ate Peach-Stuffed French Toast, Peach Cheesecake, Peach and Coconut Pie and Peach Sushi. Zach ate Lemon Peach Cobbler with Peach Ice Cream, Peach Salsa, Peach Cake and a mini-Peach Cookie. Mmmm  And what small-town festival would be complete without a parade? This one included visits from the mayor, the local real estate agent, the Town Grouch (an official festival position) and my personal favorite, the Mesa County Belly Dancers with requisite Veteran. He was definitely enjoying himself. Zach and I did the same, eating more peaches than one could shake a stick at...and we brought a crate back with us to continue the orgy of peachyness. |
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 Summer vacation gives me tons of time to knit my new passion...octopus hats. |
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 Marmot. Redcloud Peak. 21 July 2006. |
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Flower-a-go-go  Orange Sneezeweed I went camping last week on the Cannibal Plateau in south-central Colorado...and I saw more wildflowers than I could have imagined. ( ... ) |
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The Boy's a man now.     |
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The mouth of the river is laughing at us  These junebugs were all over the porch this evening...I didn't even know that we had bugs that got this big in Colorado. |
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Kablamo!  |
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Greasy starchy overload  My housemate Wendy shares this love of fries and decided to hold a French Fry Tour of Denver. Every night this week, a group of people are testing the fry making skills in a particular area of town, tallying the scores and eventually determining the Best Fries in town. Last night was the central Colfax stretch...( Come join the tour... ) |
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